Sentences with phrase «private citizen like»

But (if I see the situation clearly) a private citizen like Keenan does have a right to request the lab analysis of those cores — and probably Baillie's (or the lab tech's) graphs of those results.

«At that point he became a private citizen like any other we investigate, and he is no longer in a position to influence the actions of his former office,» Vance wrote.

Private citizens like Vancouver's Scott McIntyre of book publisher Douglas and McIntyre, and Peter Grant, a communications lawyer and former SAGIT member, lobbied colleagues and governments around the world to support the convention.

Not exact matches

Like it or not, as private citizens and as businesses, we all operate under the flag of Brand Canada.

There are senior citizens (like me) who's tax dollars unfairly go to subsidize these private schools for the elites, and I for one say stop!

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Seems like a very private matter... and she is, at the moment anyway, technically just a private citizen.

Nancy Updike goes to Iraq to try to figure out what it's like to be a private citizen working in the middle of a war zone.

The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.

It is, like the fate of the newspaper in the age of digital, a matter related to my professional life, but it is also very personal in the sense that it has to do with the interesting transition I have made, from being a journalist and a private citizen, to being a government official.

(«I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January,» he tweeted in May — but that was May.)

Nothing shouts hypocrisy from the mountaintop like right wingers trying to ram through a Federal law to officially sanction government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens.

I seem to remember him saying this morning that the memos were written by a private citizen and unclassified but the statement on CNN makes it sound like he wrote the memos to cover his butt and that they are official accounts from his side of what happened.

Citizens Union also recommends that JCOPE commissioners make themselves subject to the state's Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Laws, and stop doing most of their business in private executive sessions, which it makes it look like they are hiding something.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) will connect citizens and businesses, state and local governments, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors through a public - private partnership like never before — creating a thriving marketplace for multi-modal transportation solutions.

The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors though a public private partnership like never before — creating a thriving marketplace for transportation solutions.

Like private student loans for American citizens, these loans can be used for education - related expenses.

Once you know how much money you still need, you can turn to private student loans from a bank like Citizens Bank or one of the other top private student lending institutions.

Just like private citizens, corporations are required by federal law to file and pay their taxes.

Like other major banks such as Discover, Wells Fargo, and SunTrust, Citizens Bank started to offer private student loans.

Like all other private student loans, Citizens Bank determines the borrower's eligibility based on his or her credit score and the credit score of the cosigner, if applicable.

Private citizens are ill equipped to meet the needs of complex and dangerous animals like tigers and chimpanzees.

Provisions like North Carolina's 19A Statute, which ALDF used in the unprecedented ALDF v. Woodley case in Sanford, N.C., allow any private citizen or organization to bring civil charges against abusers for violating animal cruelty laws.

We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.

The situation doesn't appear to something that would be likely to have happened that way, much like the second half of the situation in the above - mentioned Gelbspan timeline situation, where he (as a private citizen whose only public appearance at that time in the matter was a solitary article he co-authored which briefly turned him into a skeptic) claimed an Assistant Attorney General allowed him to influence an official hearing in a major way.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

And then he writes what seem like threatening emails to private citizen bloggers, though he surely knows the emails are indeed valid, since he appears in many.

Much like private citizens who lend out their charging stations to other drivers in need, the process of providing public charging can be pretty darned simple.

More broadly, «What we're hearing is that it's not uncommon these days for law firms to be targeted by hackers for private information, just like anyone is, just like citizens are,» Foster adds.

This comes as a nasty shock to many migrant citizens — most of them, like over 90 % of UK citizens, use the National Health Service rather than private insurance.

What you find is an important difference in the kinds of cases that have been appearing before the Court: There are significantly more cases involving private citizens with limited means, small businesses, and cash - strapped institutions like the city of Los Angeles.

Like anyone working in the private sector, government employees are not immune to mistakes that can cause harm to you and other citizens.

Proposals to decrease the size of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by transferring some of its surplus funds to private insurers in exchange for assuming policies may seem like...

Though there are fact - checking websites in the U.S. like Snopes, a threat of this magnitude requires more than just citizen - run or private organization - operated programs.