Sentences with phrase «upon issues of importance»

To prepare young people for online civic participation, A publicly supported virtual laboratory of democracy should be created that enables young people to become socialized to an online civic society and to learn how to act — in a civic manner — upon issues of importance to them and the larger society.

Not exact matches

In the Q&A session, Professor Slaughter touched upon the importance of international organisations, as they can be better equipped to address certain societal issues than governments.

The award is an indication of the individual lawmaker's support of New York agriculture and the Farm Bureau, based upon each legislator's voting record on issues of agricultural importance.

Information and Discounts: Associate / Vendor Members receive the bi-monthly electronic newsletter to say informed on issues of current importance and of leadership best - practices, registration discounts for quarterly workshops and Annual Institute, and school business managers mailing labels upon request.

Each of the speakers touched upon issues like today's America, racial tensions, the fickle power of capital, and the importance of addressing the current moment in their respective practices.

Having a special year to draw attention to the importance of this issue no doubt has a role to play, but much like how the end of the 2010 Year of Biodiversity saw a slew of reports detailing how little progress is actually being made to preserve the ecosystems we all depend on, somehow I can't help but feel like come December 2011 we'll all be reading about how we're still not doing enough to preserve the forests upon which so much life depends.

In the lower courts, it's usually hyperbolic (and frowned upon) to claim the issue at hand is one of national importance.

Its high cost, dependence upon the quality of electronic records management, interdependence with admissibility of evidence rules and practices, and development of TAR (technology aided review) software, which in itself raises many complex issues, will maintain disclosure and discovery's importance to all litigators for many years to come.

It remains of considerable importance to examine whether or not the case is one in which the admission of the plea of guilty of a now absent co-defendant would have an unfair effect upon the trial by closing off many, or even all, of the issues which the jury is trying.

There are no easy answers to these questions, but it is incumbent upon governments to understand the importance of the issues they raise when they are instituting monitoring processes in implementing the Bringing Them Home recommendations, if such implementation is to be effective.