Sentences with phrase «with citizens groups»

Meanwhile, our sister organization, Probe International, has been working with citizens groups in the Third World who fear for the loss of their livelihoods and their environments as a result of ill - advised climate change policies from the IPCC and other western organizations.

In an act of support for climate action, the We Are Still In coalition in collaboration with citizen groups have planned events in more than a dozen US cities in 14 November as part of the Still In Day of Action.

Not exact matches

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

Furthermore, college graduates under the age of 35 with student loans are spending nearly one - fifth of their salaries on student loan payments, a Citizens Financial Group debt study revealed.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

The talks between Apple and Goldman Sachs are focused on providing financing for an upgrade program similar to what the tech company launched in 2015 with Citizens Financial Group.

A-Trust GmbH, the entity responsible for providing the digital identity for the Austrian citizens, teamed up with Jelurida and the ANG (Ardor NXT Group) to initiate an enterprise application which enables Austrian municipalities to publish their announcements on a digital bulletin board.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

These religious groups have to much power, interfere with govenrment, and as a result, they eclipse the power of the average citizen who is not religious.

Is this really how such a religious country, with so many religious groups, treats its citizens?

In the totalitarian political systems, of which time will correct the excesses but will also, no doubt, accentuate the underlying tendencies or intuitions, the citizen finds his centre of gravity gradually transferred to, or at least aligned with, that of the national or ethnic group to which he belongs.

Citizens were being asked to trust an elite group of strategy - makers to play whatever nuclear game of chicken was necessary to play with the Soviets.

Recently, in a city in Syria, an Islamist group imposed on Christian citizens the dhimma, the traditional «agreement» governing relations with Christians in Islamic law.

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Hostility against pro-lifers seems now to have spilled over into a distrust of any group of citizens seeking to connect public policy with a transcendent moral order.

In almost all cases, they have been established only after a protracted struggle with groups of concerned citizens.

We stand united with our gay and lesbian citizens in denouncing violence directed at any group.

Not to mention the persistence of yet a different group of «troglodytes,» in this case more sophisticated ones, who with their invention of the Cold War were constantly endangering the country and its young citizens with their longing to engage in jingoistic military exercises.

If you are so religious and such a good Christian (Derp and other commentors) why would you do business with a company who then turns around and gives a part of that money to a hate group that has openly stated they would prefer the government take certain citizens of this country out and SHOOT them.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

Mr Foye, a US citizen, will be based in Shanghai and report directly to Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke, who worked with Mr Foye earlier in his career when they were both at the soft drinks group.

«Einstein Noah Restaurant Group takes its role as a corporate citizen seriously, and we are pleased with the progress of our suppliers in their effort to help us eliminate gestation crates from our system by 2017,» stated Eric Grundemeir, Einstein Noah's Senior Vice President of Supply Chain & Distribution.

But with so many different interests to keep in mind, with everyone from governmental agencies and non-profit groups to individual citizens of Washington state potentially getting a say, the process can be complicated, to say the least.

Bayern Munich beat Man City 3 - 1 at the Etihad in this season's group stage with consummate ease, but were defeated by the Citizens back out in Germany.

The Citizens have no need to go full tilt at this really with the group having already been won.

Granias has been with the Golden Group since its start in 1971, when director Joyce Paul - Weltzien decided it was time to get senior citizens active in the community.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

The Northfield Township Conservancy, a citizens group concerned about the traffic congestion major development would bring, wants to see at least 300 acres preserved, with office buildings and shopping allowed on no more than 20 percent of the remaining buildable land.

A survey by the Friends of the Park, a citizens group dedicated to upgrading the parks, found that under long - term agreements with the park district the eight clubs have the use of a total of more than four acres.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

A group of Cary residents called Citizens for Better Communities collected a petition with about 1,900 signatures asking that the Park District condemn the property, Renner said.

A group called Citizens for Better Communities — whose members are mostly Cary residents with homes bordering the property — applauded the coming acquisition that will prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

After successful two - year implementation, the NIA went into another agreement in 2015 with the Margins Group of Companies to graduate the successful pilot of the program to Ghanaians so that citizens are issued with instant smart cards.

The good - government group Citizens Union annonuced earlier today it was filing a formal comlpaint with Attorney General Eric Schniderman's office over the Republican - aligned Common Sense Principles for not registering with the Charities Bureau.

The group however noted that President Buhari as one of the Leaders who Physically identified and related with PRONACO to produce a peoples» draft constitution during its independently convoked citizens» driven Peoples National Conference, PNC for national restructuring between 2004 and 2006 is more likely to tow the line of restructuring as he was deemed to understand the positive import of a successful political restructuring on the country's development

The good - government group Common Cause vehemently disagreed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assertion on Monday in a radio interview that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case made it impossible for major campaign - finance law changes.

The reform group Common Cause New York disagrees with Cuomo's assessment of the effects of the Citizens United ruling, and says there are steps that can be taken.

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data:

Dick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union, who waited outside the courtroom to hear the sentence, says it's just desserts for what Silver did.

Schneiderman has held this policy for some time, though he has not talked about it in publicDick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union, says the Attorney General has made a wise decision.

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data: In addition, TWG members BetaNYC and Jessie Braden of Pratt's SAVI provided testimony.

The New York Times noted Friday the growing role of independent spending in the New York City races, including the groups associated with the Anybody But Quinn campaign, linking it to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.