Sentences with phrase «real citizens got»

This was a town hall debate, which means that real citizens got to sit on stage and have the chance to ask their question.

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Our cities are getting bigger, with pollution a real problem - how can citizens create environments where nature and concrete co-exist?

But since he could publish his own recording of the call online, journalists, other bloggers and citizens in general can listen for themselves and get a real sense of what the governor believes in private.

«No salaries to pay», on the other hand if every citizen becomes effectively full - time politician (voting is much more than merely pressing the button), who (and when) is going to get the real work done?

Ms. Glen told the Council's Committee on Housing that several independent studies, including those done by Columbia University and the Citizens Budget Commission, showed that mandating real estate interests receiving the tax deduction to pay union rates would result in 30 percent fewer affordable units getting built.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: «We need real action to stamp out antisocial behaviour, to get more police out of police stations and onto the streets, and to demonstrate to law abiding citizens that the criminal justice system really is on their side.

Countries will also need to agree a roadmap indicating time lines for when citizens will get information on the companies» real owners and it will be recommended for them to introduce registers of the beneficial owners which are accessible to the public.

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.

Upon Mayor de Blasio's recent announcement of a new compensation commission, Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, told The New York Post that he supports elected officials getting raises since «eight years is a long time to go without one,» but pointed out that «the real question isn't whether they get raises, it's the size of the raises and whether the commission will look at limiting [elected officials»] outside income and banning «lulus.

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

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He said citizens at either end of the political spectrum can get daily information — albeit very different information — on global warming that further strengthens their opposing beliefs about what is real.