Sentences with phrase «power than citizens»

As a consequence, the citizens of Ontario now pay more for electrical power than the citizens of any other Canadian province.

«The TPP, if it gets passed, will be known as Congress's Citizens United, because it is giving corporations greater power, foreign corporations, multinational corporations, greater power than citizens,» Ms. Teachout said.

Not exact matches

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.

The implication is that Solzhenitsyn uses prudence rather than abstract ideology to choose the best regime for the circumstances, with the main requirements of good government being constitutional limits on power to prevent crushing tyranny and the promotion of a cultural climate that encourages citizens to develop their souls.

Ultimately, I think that is what the USDA thinks of us American Citizens — that we are no better than dogs and we will eat whatever they want us to by using their federal power to deceive us because they are not accountable to the American Citizen / Consumer.

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

Hurricane Maria hit the islands as a powerful Category 4 storm, decimating infrastructure and leaving many of the more than 3.4 million US citizens without power, communications, or access to food, water, and fuel.

I don't yet know how many of these still few schools are also bringing the Constitution into students» lives so that, as they become active citizens, they'll insist on their loyalty to the Constitution rather than to whichever government is in power.

The Ghana Police Service must show fidelity to the state rather than the ruling government, and also, be professional in their conduct in order to protect life and property of all our citizens, instead of the arbitrary application of its powers.

I particularly enjoyed Jowell's comment that «Labour has cited Aneurin Bevan's injunction that «the purpose of getting power is to give it away» rather more frequently than we have practiced it,» as though New Labour had not after all been in many respects (devolution excepted) about the redistribution of power to unaccountable bodies and about the substitution of real individual power within the grasp of the citizen by its tawdry imitation.

In the era of the Arab Revolutions, and with citizens asserting their rights and holding their governments accountable from Brazil to Turkey to Cambodia, the people power of cultural diplomacy is more important than ever.

For, in less time than many probably anticipate, the angry citizens who voted Leave in the hope of a change in circumstances will realise they have been sold a dodgy bill of goods in order to transfer power from one bunch of toffs to another.

«It is only when people want to serve themselves; they coerce citizens to queue behind them through imposition rather than selling themselves or their preferred candidates to the people who should have the ultimate power to elect or not to elect anyone as their leader in a democracy.

It would «change the balance of power in America» in favour of ordinary citizens, rather than Washington lobbyists.

April 5, 2018 • Many modern free - speech cases have less to do with citizens speaking to government power than with the reach of businesses and organizations into Americans» lives.

Many fear the drive to expand charters is powered more by powerful interests outside the city than by the desires of Nashville parents and citizens.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

In less than a year, they built their Animal Services subscription list to more than 15,000; not to mention more than 3,800 followers on the Hurst Animal Shelter Facebook page — illustrating the power of multi-channel digital communications to engage citizens — a trend we expect will continue to grow over the next several years.

The next US Administration takes the lead to persuade the US citizens nuclear power is about as safe as or safer than any other electricity source http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html.

They are the official committee — they have more powers than any lay citizen.

The citizen comments are part of The Climate Reality Project's People vs. Carbon campaign, which earlier this year gathered more than 80,000 comments in support of the EPA other recently proposed rule, which would limit carbon pollution from future power plants.

WASHINGTON, DC (December 1, 2014)-- Today, The Climate Reality Project announced the delivery of more than 126,000 citizen comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan, a rule that would limit carbon pollution from existing power plPower Plan, a rule that would limit carbon pollution from existing power plpower plants.

We now have proof: socialism is a consensus of belief among Western citizens that it is far better to be taken care of by a government run by hypocritical liars that will promise you anything to stay in power, than to be responsible for your own actions.

So it seems safe to say that more citizens have been killed by wind power than by nuclear power plants.

The citizens of Wise County, a rural community in the southeastern Appalachian Mountains, have been fighting the construction of Dominion Power's new coal - fired power plant for more than two yPower's new coal - fired power plant for more than two ypower plant for more than two years.

For a while, the happy citizens of states (other than SA) not wedded to the wind power delusion could quietly snigger at the mess South Australia's hapless Labor -LSB-...]

Your statement was «my political views are that I find it difficult to accept that the major western powers are trying to enforce, on countries which are much poorer than they are, actiions that will disadvantage the citizens of those countries in their efforts to attain the standards of living approaching those of the developed world.»

We conclude, as have many other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.

The arrest or restrain part is more important than the investigate part, although LEOs arrest power is distinguished from a citizen's arrest primarily because it can be made on the basis of an investigation rather than only on the basis of personal knowledge that the person committed the crime since it was observed.

Border officials have always had more power to inspect or search electronic devices than domestic police, but this has also raised some concerns for American citizens as well.

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.»

Portland songwriters Ara Lee and Beth Wood have collaborated with more than 50 musicians, actors, producers and citizens to create a video and song celebrating the power of women.

We are very excited for April 15 - it's the day they turn the old Soviet battery heaters off for the whole city that have been on since October 15... perhaps one day they'll see how reasonable it is for each citizen to control his / her own heat rather than «the powers that be» mandating for the millions in the city!