Sentences with phrase «views of some of its citizens»

In the decades following the Civil Rights Movement, during which the city earned a reputation as «too busy to hate» for the relatively progressive views of some of its citizens and leaders compared to other cities in the Deep South Atlanta attained international prominence.

Not exact matches

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

«We have set aside the resources to get the deficit under control and, we hope, in fact, we're counting on some kind of benefit for citizens from a tax point of view,» he said.

With all that money flying around, it's safe to assume that campaign contributors have an easier time getting their points of view across to representatives than your average citizen.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

«[I] f your view of the world is having a balance of interests, a competitive marketplace, equal providers, equal parties coming to the table — whether it's a supply chain or a network of things like sending money back and forth or citizens working to solve village - level, regional or global level — this is technology can help implement that.»

From an official point of view, China is very against cryptocurrencies and the Chinese government has prohibited its citizens from investing in crypto companies.

«In my view, the Nebraska legislature pulled out all the stops to give TransCanada the prize by cutting off any ability on the part of the state's citizens to mount a meaningful challenge to the permitting process.

Surely, investors know where Buffett stands when it comes to his view on the American economy — in time, he expects it will raise the fortunes of all citizens.

If a virtual currency is to become widely used in nations, it will be one that governments can control, which would defeat the purpose of the virtual currency in the first place, from the point of view of their citizens.

In a recent interview with Mark Thornton, Claudio Grass discussed a number of key issues and shared his point of view on important economic and geopolitical matters that are on many citizens» minds, within the US and in Europe.

Outside of our borders, American Fundamentalist Christians are looked upon in the same way some US citizens view radical Islamic followers.

All views, perceptions and laws taken to the extremes are unhealthy for the common good of any nation's people, the citizens of the worldly empire.

In my view, that practice does not square with the First Amendment's promise that every citizen, irrespective of her religion, owns an equal share in her government.

I could care less if someone worshiped a shoe in a jar as long as they have the sense to keep their beliefs out of the law and when viewing how the law will apply to the US Citizens that they do not only look at it from their perspective as there are many out there that have dissimilar beliefs and do not always view the world from the same perspective.

But as the footage of the real aftermath of Hurricane Sandy came into view, the nation and its citizens and leaders alike have quickly realized this is not a political platform, but a human crisis.

Her essay on CNN iReport, «Why I Raise My Children Without God,» drew 650,000 page views, the second highest for an iReport, and the most comments of any submission on the citizen journalism platform.

His view of the relations between the powers of the State and the religious beliefs of the citizens was the forerunner of the American ideal of the separation of Church and State; hence his great importance.

The orders are also, in the Lutheran view, a school in which all citizens are educated to care for each other, to do their duties even against their egoistic drives, and to use their «liberty and ability to achieve civil righteousness,» as Article XVIII of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession puts it.

«The government can not create an avenue of expression for one side of a contentious political issue while denying an equal opportunity to citizens with the opposite view.»

Both came to the same conclusion based on their insider's view of the Central Intelligence Agency: the fundamental purpose of the CIA is not information gathering, as most citizens believe; it is to carry out disinformation campaigns in service to illegal presidential objectives.

He suddenly shifts the point of view, and we find ourselves looking at the scene through the eyes of lowly shad seeking a way up the river to spawn; through the eyes of elderly citizens who remember their own childhood when the fish swam free; through the eyes of farmers with their oxen, barred from cutting hay.

Yet in view of its amazing growth in its first 150 years, it is not without interest to note that an LDS mathematician recently made a half - joking but statistically correct projection that «if Mormonism continues to grow in the United States at its present rate, and if the U.S. population continues to grow at its present rate, then in another 150 years when Mormonism celebrates its tricentennial, all the nation's citizens will be Mormons.»

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizens.

I view it as a personal responsibility to be an informed citizen of the world to recognize and understand the various religions that exist.

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

Having in view the question of national security, this contribution to the practice of freedom of conscience can be made only because the great majority of citizens are willing to bear arms in defense of their country.

For the Greek citizen of old, leisure and play were what were truly worthwhile, while the workaday world was viewed with disdain.

In Canada, the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission is reasonably responsive to public concerns, and concerned citizens should express their views regarding the growing problem of violence and sexual violence in all of the mass media.

Two - thirds of Mormons say their fellow citizens do not view Mormonism as part of mainstream American society.

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

To hear it from the talking heads on TV, it seems every American citizen has stuffed their own views on gun control into one of two extremes.

For «many citizens who do not share these religious views hold such a compulsory rite to infringe constitutional liberty of the individual.»

Espousing a libertarian view of neutrality in order to justify a free market economic system, Robert Nozick contends that government «scrupulously must be neutral between its citizens.»

Roman flags didn't stand next to Christian flags in first - century house churches, and followers of Jesus viewed themselves as citizens of One: One Lord, One baptism, One kingdom of sojourners scattered across the earth as colonies of heaven.

He claims that his budget is «rooted in the dignity of the human person» because it gets citizens off the dole, and he finds support for this view in Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus Annus.

This situation of viewing the «tithe» as a mandatory tax on all citizens of a particular parish continued until about 300 years ago, and the development of the novel idea about the separation of church and state.

This kind of polling results in a circular process: politicians look to polls to find out «what the public thinks,» then modify their image and views to conform, while citizens eagerly consult the polls to find out what they themselves are thinking and which candidate most closely resembles the results of the polls.

I find this view to be quite astonishing in view of the blood guilt the present American government carries for the deaths of between 30 and 40 million of its most innocent citizens, the unborn children.

This view of the world assumes that only a limited amount of energy is available; consequently, if one country's citizens use more, the people of other countries will have less.

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.

In our view, the murders were entirely in keeping with Salvador's ten - year civil war... Those responsible for almost every other instance of egregious abuse against Salvadoran citizens still enjoy absolute immunity.

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

I'm personally glad that religious people, ignorant citizens, and bigots have come out of the closet and loudly proclaim their views in a public forum.

The influence that religious broadcasters may have is more significant, therefore, when they are viewed within the broader context as indicators of a general cultural trend among groups of disenfranchised citizens.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

If instead, as Hamburger at times suggests, we should look to the intentions of those early religious dissenters so active in the disestablishment movement, why should we transform the views of unelected citizens who held no governmental office into constitutional orthodoxy?

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

Indeed, my sense is that American Jews, and many citizens of Israel, are having second thoughts about this problem, which they view as equal in significance to the Israel - Palestinian issue.

be it england german or france, cause the citizens of the famous european countries do nt have as much fire or will to fight as the immigrant of war countries / financially «handicapped» sub-countries like sanchez put it rightly, these spoiled kids of the rich countries have bee too long in their comfort zones, while the secondos are had to fight for a lot of things while a lot of the citizens helped them another side of the citizens (people like you) confronted them with racial views and ridicule..