Sentences with phrase «providing good citizens»

It was once oriented primarily to providing good citizens and leaders for society and to enabling individuals to live fuller lives.

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The newly - appointed Sports Minister, Rathore, an Olympic silver - medalist, assured citizens for providing the best of the opportunities and respect to sportspersons across the nation.
Acting on this interest in expanded dialogue between Canadian millennials and our peers in Asia will provide us with the types of soft skills that will make us more effective learners in the classroom, better negotiators in the workplace, and more informed citizens.
«The company is utilizing AI to help city managers provide a better service to their citizens and to understand in real time what their citizens care about.
Few people are willing to share so that communities can provide the physical well - being and spiritual care needed by all our country's citizens (male and female, white and of color, rich and poor) Too often we take the easy way out and pass responsibility to the next generation.
For the good health of all citizens, well - organized opportunities for both work and recreation should be provided for people of all ages.
The facts and process of science have enabled the United States to lead the world in technology and provide good health for an unprecedented number of our citizens.
No, European countries had this discussion 20 - 30 years ago and decided it would be a good idea for their governments to the parent of all it's citizens, providing them with all they needed, and guess what?
I believe healthcare should be part of a service that the US government provides its citizens because it is humane and it is the best way to keep our country strong.
NYSHSI further urges all youth sports stakeholders to provide a positive and healthy environment for our kids to enjoy sports — that is, have fun, learn sports skills and the rules of the game, and develop as capable and confident young athletes at any level of athletic success in a way that will help them to be good citizens of the game and community, healthy and fit, and performing well in all domains of life.
Yes, school meals in France are indeed superior to ours, but that's reflective of a government so supportive of raising good food citizens that it actually provides state - sanctioned «taste training» to all preschoolers, puts warnings on junk food ads, and funds school meals at a far higher rate than our own government.
The common good is itself an object of public contest, and citizens must be provided the space and opportunity to contest the procedures and principles that give rise to it.
«Our Senate Republican Majority is the voice of hardworking taxpayers, of small businessmen and women looking to create jobs, of working people who want to provide for their families, of moms and dads who want their kids to be safe and of citizens who just want a better quality of life.
Citizens of other countries are entitled to tax funded benefits provided by their countries, so they would be in their full right to require their citizens to file tax returns Citizens of other countries are entitled to tax funded benefits provided by their countries, so they would be in their full right to require their citizens to file tax returns citizens to file tax returns as well.
If we provide of a good and affordable Train, Bus and Metro infrastructure to our citizens, less will require private transportation.
«It sucks, but it provides us with a huge opportunity,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the Citizens Union, a good - government advocacy group.
With all the relief we provided [via Safety Net welfare costs and election cost takeover], the widespread property - tax reductions that the legislature and I, as well as our citizens, had anticipated did not happen.»
In the resulting reports, neither Common Cause nor Citizens Union disclosed that the Education Fund was the donor who provided their funding, although it was well - publicized they were all working together on the publicly funded elections campaign.
That is why I have introduced the Defense of Property Rights Act — to protect citizens» property rights and better provide means for citizens to seek redress against an overreaching government.
Like Andrew Cuomo, we believe these reforms can indeed lead to a «New New York» — a New York that can compete with rival states for new investment, that provides predictable and supportive conditions for our businesses, and that offer our citizens, especially our young people, productive, fulfilling lives with good jobs.
However, foreign secretary Jack Straw said the plans provided a «sound basis on which all our citizens can thrive in an enlarged EU», adding: «These are good proposals for the UK and good proposals for Europe.»
The JUSTPAL objective is to provide an online and offline platform for justice professionals to exchange knowledge, good practices and peer - driven improvements to justice systems and thereby support countries to improve their justice sector performance, quality of justice and service delivery to citizens and businesses.
These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.
«The commercial production tax credit provides subsidies to an industry that has strong ties to the state and is already well - established,» said David J. Friedfel, director of state studies at the independent Citizens Budget Commission.
Promoting a thorough decentralized governance agenda in a manner that empowers regions and districts to acquire the needed resources and capacities to make decisions and be accountable to citizens, as well as providing the needed leadership to ensure that citizens» voices matter in decision - making; that their demand for accountability is fulfilled and their aspirations for a Better Ghana «are reflected in the programmes and projects emanating from this Manifesto».
Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»
According to her, the role of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) like INEC in a democracy «is to conduct free, fair and credible elections as well as provide an enabling environment for all eligible citizens irrespective of sex, creed or tribe to exercise their constitutional rights and privileges to vote and be voted for during periodic elections.»
I am campaigning for the State Assembly to ensure that the parents of these children have jobs that build confidence, security, and provide good and decent wages for our citizens to take care of their families.»
The candidate is perhaps best - known regionally as the founder / director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.
Or would the Town of Clarkstown turn to a new candidate and go down the road less traveled to a better future where there would be compassion shown for seniors; where there would be concern for property values and their protection with a Ward System; where there would be a supervisor who would act with fiscal responsibility for those who pay property taxes; and most importantly where there would be a Supervisor who would lead the Town Board with high ethical standards and provide the citizens of Clarkstown with an open, transparent and principled government?
Released September 30, it provides best practice case studies and step - by - step guidance for launching and sustaining citizen science projects.
In another feature Carlo Ratti and Anthony Townsend write about how cities can encourage their citizens to better address their community's needs by simply providing the network.
The support of this extraordinary lineup of outstanding institutions — and of visionary leaders like Ernst - Ludwig Winnaker, president of the DFG, Reinhard Grunwald, executive officer of the DFG, and Rolf Hoffmann of the DAAK — as well as the intense use of the Web site by tomorrow's scientists and scientifically trained citizens provides us all with enormous motivation to serve you better.
(These new African initiatives may provide opportunities for citizens of non-African countries as well, especially if institutions run programs in English or other world languages.)
«The Lost Person Behavior app is designed to provide a step - by - step checklist for first responders as well as everyday citizens involved in search and rescue efforts,» said program manager Christine Lee.
Whether it's developing new products that will be manufactured in America, or getting and using energy more sustainably, or improving health care with better therapies and better use of information technology, or providing better protection for our troops abroad and our citizens at home, innovation will be key to our success.
As the flagship hospital of CHI St. Vincent Health System, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary has provided the citizens of Arkansas with high quality healthcare for well over a century.
The National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology are open to U.S. citizens who are about to complete a PhD, or have recently completed one, and provide funding for research expenses as well as postdoctoral salary.
I'm seeking a God fearing man, law abiding citizen, family oriented, handyman and good provide...
Sadly, the dichotomy of haves and have - nots is not going away any time soon, but as long as we understand what this divide looks like and how it evolves and changes, we can better address the underlying causes and provide resources for all US citizens, regardless of ethnicity, geography or socio - economic status.
The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.
Parent Pointers provides simple, practical tips for parents on a variety of topics from raising good citizens to improving a child's school performance.
«Citizenship is a statutory National Curriculum subject that provides essential teaching about democracy, politics, equalities and anti-extremist education as well as developing politically engaged and active citizens.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) helps students develop skills that provide a foundation for being a good student, citizen, and worker (CASEL, 2013):
New Jersey must improve its education system to preserve our economic preeminence in the world and provide for a better future for all our citizens.
Rising affluence has turned more Brazilians and Chileans into taxpayers, which increases pressure on the government to provide better public services and to meet citizens» demands.
Schools should reverse that trend by providing programs «that will help students better understand both their rights and responsibilities as citizens,» according to Citizenship: Goal of Education, released last week by the American Association of School Administrators.
My commentary clearly supports a delay — far better to do it right than to provide substantially flawed statewide assessment data to millions of students, thousands of schools, hundreds of districts, and tens of millions CA citizens for two or more years.
Alongside these we provide a holistic education which enables our students to develop into well - rounded, self - assured adults who will take personal responsibility, demonstrate compassion towards others and become true global citizens.
There is increasing recognition that public schools should provide a complete education, one that is academically strong, obviously, but one that also prepares children to be socially and emotionally competent, to be ethical and moral, to work well with others, and to be engaged and tolerant citizens.
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