Sentences with phrase «vulnerable citizens in»

Hidden by the holidays, Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman trotted out their budget chief, Ben Barnes, last week to quietly announce another $ 93 million in state budget cuts, many of which were targeted at the most critical services and vulnerable citizens in Connecticut.

But Mr. Cuomo will need to find ways to limit the damage to the state's most vulnerable citizens in the process.

The agency's main thrust is to promote sustainable development using the notion of a forested and green north to catalyze climate change reversal and improve livelihoods of the most vulnerable citizens in the area.

And as they are defeated on the ground, the terrorists are exploiting the internet and social media to spread this ideology that is preying on vulnerable citizens in our own countries, inspiring them to commit acts of terror in our own cities.

«Western Sky Financial and CashCall worked together to charge outrageous rates to vulnerable citizens in a time of great economic distress,» said Mark Kaufman, Maryland's commissioner of financial regulation, in a statement.

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Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

2) The criminals — Those interested in immediate personal gain by looting, burning and stealing property from Ferguson's vulnerable citizens;

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with the International Rescue Committee to ask concerned citizens to contact European leaders and ask them to support legislation to help some of the world's most vulnerable people rebuild their lives in safety.

We just need the domestic violence laws already in place to protect adults to be extended to protect our most vulnerable, voiceless, voteless citizens, our children.

In doing so we can not only raise vital funds for Planned Parenthood, but also show the world's bullies that there is still a movement here willing to stand up and fight against the tide of regression that threatens to sweep away the freedoms of the most vulnerable citizens.

«A large number of my constituents depend on many of the programs the president wants to eliminate, and pulling the rug out from under them would be detrimental to our most vulnerable citizens,» Tenney said in a statement.

«We are very proud to open Lantern's fifteenth affordable building in New York City which will provide both housing and critical social services to some of our City's most vulnerable citizens,» said Laura Lazarus, Executive Director of Lantern.

«In his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York StatIn his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York Statin New York State.

«These fraudsters engaged in the most reprehensible kind of conduct — stealing scarce housing resources from our most vulnerable citizens while at the same time lining their own pockets,» said Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Despite the fact that 2016 will be remembered for citizens fundamentally voting against our own wellbeing, this year was also the first that voters solidly got behind drug policy reform in order to protect the vulnerable in society.

Happily though, it will be increasingly difficult for those in power to maintain that prohibition protects the vulnerable, when other countries are moving to legally regulate to protect their citizens.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Photograph: POOL / Reuters Cameron called corruption «the cancer at the heart of so many of the problems we need to tackle in our world» and said tax - dodging holds back growth and undermines security by making poorer citizens more vulnerable to «poisonous ideology of extremists».

Corruption, affects all countries and societies but more seriously poor countries poor citizens and the vulnerable in society.

On Monday Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano (R - North Haven) questioned why Bridgewater Associates will receive «tens of millions of dollars in handouts» while programs that serve vulnerable citizens are being cut.

«We will now be able to work in tandem with other local law enforcement agencies and the media in alerting the public of a missing senior, as time is of the essence when it comes to bringing these vulnerable citizens home to avert a tragedy.»

«The 2018 elections are critical in electing individuals who will not put the special interests of a select few ahead of the most important functions of government — education, safety and protecting our most vulnerable citizens.»

Government had to tighten its belt,» Silver said at a joint press conference announcing the plan, adding that he was able to «achieve critical restorations which will soften the cuts affecting working families, our senior citizens, our most vulnerable populations and the children in our classrooms.»

Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top government functionaries including the Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Oke, wife of the Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, members of the State Executive Council, members of the House of Assembly, stakeholders in the justice sector, celebrities, students, among others, said it was time to walk the talk and ensure that all hands are on deck towards safeguarding the rights of every citizen and the most vulnerable in the society.

Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University and a co-founder of Cascades Pika Watch in Oregon, a collaborative citizen science program that invites volunteers to track populations of pikas, tiny mammals that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

That leaves him vulnerable under an executive order, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, that calls for the rigorous vetting of applicants for U.S. visas from Iran and six other predominantly Muslim nations, and bars the entry of any citizen from those nations for 90 days while procedures for that vetting are put in place.

We must instead explore what makes certain individuals — our own citizens in most cases — so vulnerable to infection in the first place.

But many states offer meager financial support to their guardianship system, leaving some of the country's most vulnerable citizens without a guardian and in a perpetual limbo.

How did inaccurate information about nuclear missiles leave citizens in a vulnerable situation?

In this context, the movement of mostly poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people is today regarded as a threat to both a sovereignty of the nation and its citizens.

With your financial support and commitment, AYPF will continue to educate and inform policymakers about strategies that work to help young people, particularly vulnerable youth, succeed in the modern workplace, become lifelong learners, and be engaged citizens.

Dropout rates of 30 percent in inner city schools no longer seem to shock.And we have allowed this downward definition to take place among our most vulnerable citizens — our poor.

In the end governance should happen only for one reason, to make things better for our most vulnerable citizens.

In addition, as Anne Manusky points out, the Connecticut legislature should stop funding the failed SBAC testing program and use those funds to preserve some of the vital services that Connecticut's most vulnerable citizens need and deserve.

Formed in 2007, DFER operates in 14 states across the country, working with education leaders to combat the decline of our education system and standing up for our most vulnerable citizens.

Throughout her career, her work has focused on supporting understandings about how children learn so as to ensure that our youngest, most vulnerable citizens — especially those in historically underserved diverse urban communities — have access to high quality learning opportunities.

And it doesn't stop there... KVHS has a public spay neuter program to help reduce pet overpopulation in our community, we regularly conduct educational and outreach activities to teach citizens about our work and humane care for animals, and we have created programs to strengthen opportunities for our most vulnerable animals like feral cats and senior animals through ongoing support and fee waived or reduced adoptions.

Lawson has participated in residencies including Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York; Light Work in Syracuse, New York; and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY As a rape survivor, scholar, and writer, Dr. Salamishah Tillet has spent her career championing the rights and voices of our most vulnerable citizens.

We are a senior citizen in Hampton Roads who is fearful of being stranded in the growing coastal floods linked to climate change and who must now pay for flood insurance for a house that was never previously vulnerable to floods.

Public and private citizens or institutions who service and anticipate a role in maintaining support for vulnerable populations in Northeast cities and communities indicated that they are making plans to judge the demand for adaptation services.

In debating national climate policy, to what extent have you apprised citizens of your country that nations have ethical and justice responsibilities to other vulnerable people and nations?

When something of immense importance is at stake — and what could be more important than the survival of the most vulnerable of the Earth's citizens in the face of famine, flood and epidemic — we owe an absolute allegiance to the truth, and must put aside any ideological or financial discomfort that the truth may cause.

If you are a senior citizen trying to live on social security, this may be catastrophic since it may make it necessary to choose between food and electricity, as has already been reported in the case of some of the more vulnerable residents of the UK.

In the UK, where heating costs rose 63 % between 2009 and 2014, 25 % of citizens over 60 are classified as «energy poor», leaving the elderly population especially vulnerable.

Lord Bach makes the important point that the rule of law and legal rights do not mean much unless citizens are able, through the legal system, to have them upheld, and that cuts to legal aid have made that impossible for many, especially the most vulnerable in society.

Elderly citizens in nursing homes are extremely vulnerable to violations of their rights because they are medically frail making them powerless against abusive behavior.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Once powers are in place to remove material deemed by the State to be adverse to the public interest, our society and individual citizens become extremely vulnerable to the gross abuse of these powers, regardless of how well - meaning our current leadership may be now.

To fulfill the mission of ending discrimination against Florida's most vulnerable citizens, the Children's Rights Unit will engage in widespread advocacy including litigation, collaboration, education and community activism.

Most of these car crashes occur in high traffic areas and at night, but no matter where a pedestrian is hit, s / he is in far more danger of being seriously injured than the driver involved in the crash, and our most vulnerable citizens — young children and the elderly — are the most of risk.