Sentences with phrase «which engages citizens»

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In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

Although written by a supporter of Amendment 2 (which was overturned by the court in a decisionnow on appeal), the book provides a convincing analysis of the crosscutting interests and passions engaged when citizens attempt to hold government democratically accountable.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

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.

A systematic effort to encourage church members to become involved in the activities of the local Mental Health Association, a citizens group which engages in educational and preventive programs on all three levels.

To illustrate, a citizen ought not to be arrested for expressing an unpopular opinion; he can properly be arrested for inciting or engaging in acts of violence, but the physical force with which he is restrained ought not in turn to become counterviolence.

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.

We owe our fellow citizens a socially engaged witness to the truth about marriage, which, with the family, is the unalterable foundation of a healthy, humane society.

Big Ed, you were a tough but reasonable mayor of New York City for three years, and now you are engaged on another tough undertaking which, if successful, will benefit the State and all its citizens by cleaning up the redistricting mess bred by old and discredited politics, which still haunt us all.

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

High profile attempts to engage the public before the comprehensive spending review included a «Spending Challenge» on the Treasury website and a three - day long citizens» jury, which the chief secretary addressed and Newsnight gave dedicated coverage.

The rich, he wrote, «never form a body which has manners and regulations of its own,» and prefer to retreat into private life than to «engage in an often unequal struggle against the poorest of their fellow citizens.»

Citizens Union, like dozens of groups that are active in state politics, exists as both a (c)(3)-- which can receive tax - deductible donations but can spend a finite amount of money on direct political activity — and a (c)(4)-- which can engage in a broader range of political activity designed to promote «social welfare» but can't get tax - exempt donations.

«As a Government that is committed to the welfare of its citizens and which understands the importance of continuously engaging the populace, the Lagos State Government took this important decision for the good of the people».

It can only advocate positions (which it could do prior to Citizens United) and engage in electioneering activities like endorsing a candidate in advertisements (which it could not do prior to Citizens United).

develop services which are shaped and co-produced by both service providers and the citizens and communities who receive and engage with those services.

The group implored all aggrieved political parties, stakeholders and candidates to be mindful of their utterances, seek redress if any by engaging the legal framework as provided for in the constitution in pursuance of their grievances without heating up the polity, which it noted may result into endangering the lives of innocent citizens and bring into disrepute the nation's democracy.

Knowledge co-production, also called «public participation in scientific research» or «citizen science,» provides «intentional collaborations in which members of the public engage in the process of research to generate new science - based knowledge.»

Although the Netherlands have a good track record in using innovative means to engage the general public in the science and technology debate — Van der Starre mentions the use of citizen panels, in which a diverse group of citizens gathers evidence and develops a statement on a particular scientific development or issue — both Schutter and Van der Starre think PCST can be improved.

The overall purpose is to help young people gain better knowledge and understanding of their rights as EU citizens and to: enable young people to engage with an issue which will be foremost in the news for at least the next twelve months, and possibly longer; understand the choices facing the UK government, other EU governments and the EU institutions, on this issue; think critically about the issue of citizens» rights in the context of Brexit, coming to their own opinion about the best way forward, and gaining a better understanding of the impact upon themselves and their communities.

These are some of the ways in which we can develop a digital society in which citizens are empowered, responsible and engaged.

Consider the case of two of our U.S. history teachers who sought to engage students in a case study about Fred Korematsu and the ways in which the rights of U.S. citizens have been suspended in times of war.

New City School is a supportive community which actively engages students to build knowledge, ask meaningful questions, design creative solutions, open their minds, care for themselves and their community, and become skilled, responsive citizens in the world.

This consent order concerns unauthorized interstate and foreign air transportation by AMI Jet Charter, Inc., (AMI) which, while under the actual control of a non-U.S. citizen corporation, engaged in air services as a common carrier between points in the United States and between points in the United States and points abroad.

With this in mind, we are excited to be working on a citizen science project, the «Earth Challenge 2020,» which will engage one million global citizens to collect one billion data points to measure air quality, water quality, pollution and human health.»

This question is designed to expose the ethical duty of the United States and other high - emitting nations under international law to prevent its citizens from engaging in activities which cause climate change damages as a matter international law without regard to what other nations do.

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

What Article 28 (3) with its omission of public policy grounds seems to suggest in my view is that — to a certain extent — the mere fact of a 10 years residence has created a link between the EU citizen and the host Member State that is similar to the link between a national and its state; as a consequence expulsion can only be a valid means if this link is deliberately destroyed by the EU citizen; this would be the case of a serious security threat, i.e. an individual determined to engage in actions that jeopardize the security of the host Member State's society at large, which could indeed be the case of organized crime.

Consequently your Lordships are now engaged, not in the bold development of principle, but in a practical attempt, under adverse conditions, to preserve the general perception of the law as system of rules which is fair between one citizen and another.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

In an era in which some politicians try to discredit reporting from legitimate news sources, it's important that citizens can engage in their own fact finding.

I'll provide one of the most eloquent: the House of Lords is «now engaged, not in the bold development of principle, but in a practical attempt, under adverse conditions, to preserve the general perception of the law as system of rules which is fair between one citizen and another.»

Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offence, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval service.

To ensure students become active and engaged citizens who value and promote Australian values and human rights they must understand the context within which universally accepted human rights emerged and the contemporary significance of human rights and Australian values.