Sentences with phrase «rather than citizens»

[Notice too that we're now usually labeled as consumers, rather than citizens, fer Chrissake?!).

As political scientist Suzanne Mettler, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, argues, libertarian paternalism treats people as consumers rather than citizens.

This would get around the free speech issue, as it is a restriction on employees rather than citizens.

As I have worked with children over the years, I have seen the diminished capacity for true play and a loss of the sense of wonder in their world as children are groomed to be consumers rather than citizens.

In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.

Not exact matches

It's time American policymakers started a discussion on taxing meat too, because rather than reform its practices or scale back production, the meat industry has fought tooth and nail to fend off environmental regulation and commonsense nutritional standards, leaving citizens to deal with its mess.

«Why might citizens hold virtual currencies rather than physical dollars, euros, or sterling?

If the census were to count only citizens, rather than all residents, the budget allocations will not accurately reflect the actual number of people who will make demands upon public institutions.

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 bill, passed on March 23, prevents local governments from passing any laws to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination, precluding a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed people to use public bathrooms based on the gender they identify with rather than the one on their birth certificate.

U.S. mortgage insurance is thus based on the actual risk characteristics of the individual borrower rather than pooled across all citizens, as is the case in Canada.

Beyond offering Saudi citizens and residents the opportunity to watch movies in their hometown rather than traveling abroad, the government hopes the industry will contribute $ 24 billion to the economy and create 30,000 jobs.

Its citizens are more vocal, and the government more responsive to their grievances — economic rather than political: the high cost of living, the wide wealth gap and the inflow of migrants.

If you, the investor or concerned citizen, really want to send a message to the big players in gun sales, including companies like Wal - Mart, you're more likely to have an impact organizing a campaign to not buy stuff there, rather than abstaining from stock ownership.

The sweep and urgency of the statements from both sides of the Atlantic called to mind a computer - age version of a Cold War air raid drill, but asking citizens to upgrade their passwords rather than duck and cover.

While it remains uncertain whether the rate increase will pass legal muster, by focusing solely on short - term financial consequences rather than long - term growth and innovation, the PUD is shortchanging Washington's citizens by driving new technology businesses away from the state:

One of the major obstacles they must overcome is the seemingly negative perception the public has of Stéphane Dion; they're attempting to do this by asserting him as a decisive and strong political leader, and by showcasing him as an «average citizen,» rather than a politician who has been regarded as a somewhat - distant intellectual.

So almost by definition, low - tier asset purchases by the ECB and Bank of Japan act as publicly - funded subsidies for bondholders, rather than ordinary citizens.

Ms. Russell wrote with penetratingly keen insight, and as a result, I am much more cognizant of why policy makers in Canada defer in favour of the interests of multinational oil companies rather than making decisions that are in the best interest of the ordinary citizens of central and eastern Canada when it comes to oil security.

Once again, the Republicans would be treating those getting amnesty as units of labor rather than prospective citizens.

Trump has an almost preternatural ability to sense and to respond to the anxieties of the average citizen — or at least the average primary voter — rather than pandering to them reluctantly.

As a matter of civic health and social cohesion, the people we allow to work in the U.S., whatever their country of origin and whatever their skill level, should be invited as future citizens rather than as units of labor.

He could also come out against guest worker programs and argue that those we invite to come to our country should be welcomed as future citizens rather than helots to be exploited and discarded if they should face a spell of unemployment.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

The citizens of Warsaw, determined to secure their own freedom rather than be liberated by the approaching Russians, rose up in armed rebellion against the Nazi occupiers.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

A supportive, rather than an uncovering (insight) approach is also the most helpful one with most «senior citizens.»

But rather than illuminating the tension involved in loving aliens and recognizing our collective responsibility to each other as citizens, the resolution proceeds to call for a more flexible, expansive immigration policy.

The citizen's relationship to the state is an «I - it» rather than an «I - thou» relationship, and incapable of the personal mediation necessary for love to become activated.

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

It is of great importance that profits from land ownership belong to the community rather than being appropriated by private citizens.

In England where they have created their own Sharia courts to resolve conflicts, divorces, etc rather than the court that the rest of the citizens use.

What the Christian citizen may not do is to obey men rather than God, or overlook the degree of compromise in our best acts, or gloss over the sinfulness of war.

The result was a tourist class citizen, negotiating life with a calm indifference, preferring to die curled up on some principle rather than to give his life fighting for what might eventually be judged an error.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

As the technological era permeates cultures worldwide, the mass media are increasingly employed as a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracy.

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

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

Christians, as citizens, have an obligation to exert whatever influence they can to ensure that the mass media in our society operate to serve the public good rather than merely commercial interests or those of individuals.

I'm not a homeless activist in our city, I'm just a rather ordinary citizen, but let me tell you, I'm disgusted and disappointed and more than a little angry.

The goal of The Gay Agenda was to force opponents of sod into a position where they would be seen as attacking the rights of so - called «gay» citizens, rather than opposing a specific deviant behavior.

In fact, much of Nussbaum's own rather unconventional view of democracy in this book derives from the Gandhian idea of Swaraj (self - rule), in which control of one's inner life and respect for other people create self - aware and engaged rather than passive citizens.

Ironically, such proposals come at a time when this form of government, which is but 200 years old, has been expanding rather than restricting freedom for all its citizens, and has been doing so despite massive immigration, legal and illegal, and despite having added «foreign» territories like Hawaii and Alaska.

Rather than unifying citizens, it is fragmenting them.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

Expecting the FCC to regulate in the name of the citizens rather than the broadcasting industry would be another.

Rather than talking about marginal tax rates — which few people fully understand — savvy politicians should support a law that would state that no citizen can be compelled to give more than half of his annual income to any government entity.

In such a world, communities could measure their economic wellbeing by whether the basic needs of all citizens are met rather than by the growth of their product.

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.