Sentences with phrase «what ordinary citizens»

Who knows whether this setback for the Bush Administration and its allies on this issue is temporary or not, but it's sure as hell an example of what ordinary citizens can do when they have the tools and the motivation to really push the system.

«In adolescence, these (character) strengths are mostly developed in relationships with caring adults,» Tough explained to me in an email about what ordinary citizens can do to help.

Not exact matches

«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

Whether 12 ordinary citizens can ignore as jurors what they know as human beings is another question.

No one knows whether ordinary soldiers, even from what is no longer in any normal sense a citizen army, would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps would ever have sufficient confidence to issue such orders.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

How are ordinary citizens to decide for themselves when the experts don't agree on how the system works and on what should be done to keep it going?

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary peoWhat I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary peowhat is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

So, what can you do as an ordinary citizen when you think that a certain non-mainstream issue is underrepresented in your parliament?

The details of what I told the President as my reasons for wanting to revert to my position as an ordinary citizen of Ghana are contained in a letter I wrote to Mr. Martey Newman when he lied that I was dismissed for misconduct when he should have known as the Chief of Staff that one could not dismiss a senior public officer for misconduct without a formal charge and a formal hearing.

The question is, if the US defaulted, what would be the effect, not on the federal government, but on the ordinary citizen living in such a country?

Ordinary citizens, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, are caught between these extremes and left shocked by the sudden outpouring of violence, dousing for many what had been the hope of the Arab Spring.

But what is special about this virus and what, if anything, should ordinary citizens do about it?

Ordinary citizens of New Mexico, and especially all those who regularly decry the intrusion of big government into our lives, should be very upset about what the Governor's Public Education Department [PED] has done.»

«The heroes of this story are people like lawyer Joel Kupferman and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol... each refused to be lulled by the failures of most of the New York media to report what was actually happening; each helped to pierce the false claims of government officials and to validate the concerns of rescue workers and ordinary citizens, to confirm to them that they were not imagining their ailments.»

One of TheCityFix.com's contributors, Benjamin de la Pena, wrote a provocative post about pedicabs — what are often referred to as «road roaches» — as a viable form of green transport if urban planners and ordinary citizens would take it seriously.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

Now, Mr. Obama tells us, unlike what we've heard from Edward Snowden, that the US govt never spies on ordinary citizens....

What is obvious from the recent setbacks is that the government seems to be interested in concerns raised by polluting industries more than ordinary citizens suffering in smog.

What is less clear is what we, as ordinary citizens, can do in the face of the powerful, relentless forces of corrupted science, to set things riWhat is less clear is what we, as ordinary citizens, can do in the face of the powerful, relentless forces of corrupted science, to set things riwhat we, as ordinary citizens, can do in the face of the powerful, relentless forces of corrupted science, to set things right.

Unfortunately there is not much else out there telling the ordinary citizen what is going on behind closed doors.

Regarding my own presentation two days ago, my opening point was to inspire the audience to ask tough questions like I do, even if they have no science expertise, and I was going to follow that with a brief mention of how ordinary citizens know what contradictory climate science assessments look like and how their growing knowledge about those increasingly undermines the stability of the idea of man - caused global warming.

We await the hue and cry as ordinary European citizens digest the news about what they have been digesting.

Ordinary citizens might, from time to time, want to be able to search Canadian legal scholarship efficiently and read what they find.

For Sharpe J.A., if the police tell the witness they will not reveal their identity or involvement in order to get information, they should keep their promise, or face the ordinary consequences of violating the assurance they have given: «Simply put, a citizen in Ms. Stack's situation should be able to rely upon what the police tell her.»

From a legal POV, what does it mean for an ordinary citizen to «confirm a cryptographic hash» of a document?

Now we want to find out what the «ordinary» people of Australia as citizens want from their health services.