Sentences with phrase «what good citizens»

They instead emphasized what good citizens they were.

«I did what any good citizen would do.»

Not exact matches

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

We talked by phone about why diversity matters, what it means to be a good corporate citizen and whether the President has done enough on the racial divide in America.

«The company is utilizing AI to help city managers provide a better service to their citizens and to understand in real time what their citizens care about.

Well... We could also tell them that the way Canada treats its BC citizens, its first nations and the environment does not fit with what BC expects from the Federation. . .

If Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and other founders were to time travel to 2016, they would almost surely be troubled by the threat that inequality poses to the well - being of citizens and democratic governance and ask, «What are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?&raWhat are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?&rawhat it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?»

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

Where citizens» natural and understandable hatred, fear, and desire for revenge threaten to undermine a fragile peace agreement or an embryonic democracy, restorative political practices may well be essential not only for stability and the conditions needed for moving toward democracy but for what justice can be achieved.

«To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow - citizens I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are,» he said.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

• A good lesson in reading the media from Terry Mattingly, founder and proprietor of the always useful Get Religion website: «Contrary to popular belief, the mainstream press really isn't very effective when it comes to telling individual citizens what to think.

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: what are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend?

The muslims were doing back prior to the crusades what they r doing now, but with better results — meaning taking over countries and harming the citizens, so the Christians, as they are today, went on a crusade to halt the muslim takeover.

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Evan — Then the problem appears to be discerning what your god ACTUALLY wants and using that to determine how to be a good citizen while following what your god wants.

Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.

We as Christians are encouraged to be good citizens and participate in the countries debates on what becomes law.

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.

Laws, policies, norms, culture educate the citizen: they either help him or her recognise what is real, true and good, or deconstruct his or her reason, conscience and heart.

Rationalism in politics often has dire consequences, because the Rationalist tends to have inordinate faith in policy solutions, slogans, and political machinery to guide citizens toward a good the Rationalist has chosen, while neglecting to understand how people actually live and think, what they actually do and need.

Revolution is clear about what the law should be: «As long as people have a choice about where they go for help, then it should not be a problem if the government funds a program in which a person... becomes a good citizen, employee, and family member through religious transformation.»

During Inspirational Breakfast he explained: «People have to win their own citizens to their arguments and that's what Theresa May of course has to do as well as Jeremy Corbyn.

What this meant, obviously, was that the polity could no longer be seen as the highest institutional expression of a community united by a shared vision of God and the good, for there was no such community; the citizens were deeply divided in their vision of God and the good.

Voting is the activity that defines democracy; citizens are called to reflectively consider what is best for the community and to express this judgment in a vote.

This country was founded on freedom of religion and individual rights... i personally don't give a hoot... what denomination a individual is as long as he or she is a good honest caring American citizen... I remember JFK, everyone said no one would vote for a Catholic..

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

Well in the hate crime laws there is also restriction of speech and puts one class of citizen above another what about that?

No, European countries had this discussion 20 - 30 years ago and decided it would be a good idea for their governments to the parent of all it's citizens, providing them with all they needed, and guess what?

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

«Natural rights mean simply interests which we think ought to be secured,» but it is clear that legal institutions increasingly had the task not only of securing those rights but of defining them as well.30 Laws, that is to say, not only would inform citizens what to do and what not to do but would have to serve as well to assess the morality of what they did.

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.

«The only kind of friendship the state has a proper interest in recognising and regulating is heterosexual marriage, because that's what leads to children - new citizens - and gives them the best start in life.»

Still, Christians have the duty not to be too alienated from their country, and to do what they can to be of service to their fellow citizens by loyally encouraging what's good and could be better in the political place where they live.

What is reasonable to suppose is that the separate loyalties citizens feel — to religion certainly but also to class, ethnic group, profession, party, or whatever — will be regulated on behalf of the common good.

What good does any citizen do?

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

It really appears to be an awesome example of citizens and government being in sync with what is best for the people and nutritional health.

Ultimately, I think that is what the USDA thinks of us American Citizens — that we are no better than dogs and we will eat whatever they want us to by using their federal power to deceive us because they are not accountable to the American Citizen / Consumer.

«And I did criticize the Mexican government for what would surely undermine border security and the safety of Mexican citizens as well as US citizens.»

Cuomo approved what was widely considered to be the ethics bill of the legislative session, a measure designed to address the Citizens United era of super PAC political spending, as well new requirements for lobbyists and consultants.

However, what if the answer to «what is the best prediction method» lies in asking people not only who they will vote for, but also who they think will win (as «citizen forecasters» [1]-RRB-, and more importantly, how they feel about who other people think will win?

Our Bolga Depot was shut down for so many years, the pipeline from Buipe to Bolga was not operational, today we are pumping fuel from Buipe to Bolga and we are loading 40 trucks a day to Burkina Faso and Mali, I mean if that is not economic progress, I don't know what else anybody will call economic progress, yes we've been through a period of challenges and we've had to make sacrifices as citizens but I believe that in everyone's life, there are times when you have to make sacrifices in order that things get better for the future, we are working to ensure that we create a better future for not only our citizens of today but for our citizens of tomorrow.

They're really no good for everyday citizens as they promote a bigger and more expensive government and we all know what that leads to.

However, he suggested that we tend to be far better parents than citizens to such an extent that what we do for our children goes beyond legitimate partiality to harm the rest of society by keeping opportunity in the family and preventing social mobility.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

«Obamacare is a perfect example of what happens when a liberal elite in Washington decides that it knows better than the American citizen,» Mr. Faso said.