Sentences with phrase «power of citizen»

Let people world - wide discover them and their insight — but always to recognize the power of a citizen journalist having their own publication.

Using spare computing power of citizen scientists» screen savers allows many runs of the models and increases the confidence in the results that UCS scientists and collaborators will analyze.

It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect human health and the environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.

Never before have so many understood the power of citizen activism to fight climate denial at the highest levels of our federal government.

The caucus itself was formed after a long lobbying effort from the Citizens» Climate Lobby, showing the power of citizen efforts to raise political awareness of climate change.

In low income communities and communities of color, we have not always valued the power of citizen input and the capacities within communities to coalesce around their children.

Believing in «the power of citizen service to solve community problems,» Brown saw it as a chance «to strengthen the bridge between Harvard and the greater Boston community.»

Using spare computing power of citizen scientists» screen savers allows many runs of the models and increases the confidence in the results that UCS scientists and collaborators will analyze.

The NSF - supported Aurorasaurus project leverages the power of citizen science by amassing data from thousands of aurora watchers around the world who help track the auroras in real - time.

Komen ran into the power of citizen - activism, for one thing.

Asia's sovereign bonds will likely be less endangered by rising interest rates and less vulnerable to Western policies of financial repression, which erode the purchasing power of their citizens» savings.

The plaintiffs alleged that this tabulation method dilutes the voting power of citizens residing in districts that are home to smaller concentrations of non-voting residents.

Instead, we will probably be treated once again to the obscene spectacle of our elected representatives fighting unelected peers to degrade the democratic powers of citizens.

Well - functioning industry is a great part of national economy and it helps to produce more goods and increase the purchasing power of citizens.

This is a perfect example of the power of citizens to bring about change.

This city churns out huge money which is reflected greatly in the spending power of its citizens.

Not exact matches

The town used to house several hundred citizens, mostly in the forestry trade, at its peak during the height of the Soviet Union's power.

As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

While Cuba's middle class is reportedly growing with increased entrepreneurship and economic freedom, citizens are nowhere near China in terms of personal spending power.

With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

Snowden's supporters have argued that he rightly exposed unsavory details of how the government spied on its own citizens and the leaders of other world powers, including its allies.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

It's a fundamental tenet of federalism that a state's powers are limited to its own state and citizens.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target «non-US persons» under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.

Some 32 percent of the 3.4 million American citizens on the island still don't have power, and 9 percent still don't have water to drink or bathe in.

Yeah, but the opposite argument that I hear people making is that if they allow their currency to rise and their purchasing power increases, then they won't need all that investment in the US because they can rely on their own citizens to take the role of consumers.

As the largest manager of retirement savings in the country, Vanguard has the power — and the obligation — to combat Citizens United politics and special interest influence in our elections.

Thirty five days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 85 % of our American citizens on the island are still without power and most have no water.

Well, the reason is that 45 % of the publicly - held debt is owned by foreigners, and the remaining debt held by the U.S. public represents future transfers of purchasing power - claims of some U.S. citizens on the future output produced by others.

We need to convert the energy, skills, and grassroots experience and insights of our country's many citizen - based mobilization efforts into more effective political power.

Such will be the case of Estonia's proposed e-Residency Project, powered by the Nation itself, and expected to be a platform that builds a digital nation for global citizens.

Still reeling from the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward County law enforcement agencies are leading the state by far in using sweeping new powers to take away guns from dozens of citizens they claim are dangerous.

These two countries make up most of the company's foreign sales and should help to power its growth in the years ahead as more and more of their citizens move up the socioeconomic ladder.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

In a country in which the vast majority of citizens pray and believe in God, it surely matters, for purposes of legitimation of power and authority, whether or not God and the Bible, the highest authorities and sources of ideals known to those citizens, are invoked to legitimate political authority.

In his samizdat essay of 1978, «The Power of the Powerless,» Havel argued that the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia exerted power not just through brute force but even more pervasively through lies that were reinforced by citizens who did not believe the lies but nevertheless went along with Power of the Powerless,» Havel argued that the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia exerted power not just through brute force but even more pervasively through lies that were reinforced by citizens who did not believe the lies but nevertheless went along with power not just through brute force but even more pervasively through lies that were reinforced by citizens who did not believe the lies but nevertheless went along with them.

But it is an exercise of «authoritarian» power to compel by force of law and under pain of imprisonment that all citizens support and finance government programs that in some manner, efficiently or otherwise, benefit the poor.

When the state imposes prison or fines, it acts as the agent and enforcer of normal social justice, with powers derived from and limited by the social contract of its citizens.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

The press (including «citizen journalists» and survivor blog writers) have been pulling at the loose threads here and there, and it looks like the entire muffler may unravel as different people and organizations attempt to deny the interconnections, or minimize underlying doctrines that have given shape to their whole gridlock of power.

Just as most of the citizens of the Western world reject paganism, when they give the matter any attention, so likewise do they recognize the untenability of power culture.

We are now confronted with a form of capitalism which concentrates economic power in vast, impersonal institutions, with the result that decisions vitally affecting the livelihood of average citizens are made in places far removed from their capacity to have any influence at all.

His view of the relations between the powers of the State and the religious beliefs of the citizens was the forerunner of the American ideal of the separation of Church and State; hence his great importance.

A nation which operated by relational power would be one which actively attempted to be sensitive to the feelings of persons in other nations, to the needs, fears, hopes, angers, and goals of other nations (as well as of its own citizens), and which allowed those to influence its policies.

These religious groups have to much power, interfere with govenrment, and as a result, they eclipse the power of the average citizen who is not religious.

State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism, which opposes religious inst itutional power and influence in all aspects of public and political life, including the involvement of religion in the everyday life of the citizen.

I think it was Augustus who's first title was First Citizen — implying that he was simply another citizen of Rome; but in reality he had almost absolute power (politically); and he wielded it.