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Citizen in sentence

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I was but a citizen.
I'm not a citizen of this country, so I hope it won't be thought unbecoming if I suggest that something needs to be done.
It should be the citizen's decision.
And here in the United Kingdom there's also concern over a law called the Digital Economy Act that's placing more onus on private intermediaries to police citizen behavior.
As an American citizen, ethnically a Yemeni, in hiding currently in Yemen, who inspired a Nigerian, son of the head of Nigeria's national bank.
We find guys like Bjorn Sundin, originally from Sweden, and his partner in crime, also listed on the INTERPOL wanted pages, Mr. Shaileshkumar Jain, a U.S. citizen.
And I think we need a league of citizen scientists for the ocean.
And she started this whole citizen science campaign, collected data and drove awareness for sea-star wasting syndrome, to try and figure out what was happening there.
Some people call this "citizen journalism," other people call it "collaborative journalism."
Essentially, what I'm talking about here is, as I said, citizen journalism.
That doesn't just go for citizen journalists, or for people putting out messages on Facebook or Twitter.
And I should say at this stage that one really important dimension to all of this for journalists who utilize social media and who utilize citizen journalism is making sure we get our facts correct.
But nobody can deny the power of citizen journalism.
But citizen journalism and this technology has inserted a new layer of accountability into our world, and I think that's a good thing.
When I don't understand which are my rights, the benefits I can have access to, I can't understand my duties and I'm not an active and participative citizen either.
And on December 4, he organized three thousand members of the Youth Communist League, from 14 of the top law schools, who organized themselves, developed posters with the new laws, and went to the police stations and began what he says is a non-violent legal revolution to protect citizen rights.
Now, when we think deeper about things like these, the obvious response from people should be, "OK, well, that sounds bad, but that doesn't really affect me, because I'm a legal citizen.
The simple thing, the easy thing, is this: if you're an American citizen, call your representative, call your senator.
And if you're not an American citizen, you can contact American citizens that you know and encourage them to do the same.
These are called "citizen science projects."
Citizen science is when large research projects put their data online, teach ordinary people, like you, to go and interact with that data and actually contribute to the research by making interesting or necessary characterizations about it.
However, there are many other flavors of citizen science projects that people have delved into that have varying levels of abstraction, that you wouldn't necessarily think people would jump at.
One such example of this is the citizen science project associated with the mission that I'm part of, called the Kepler Mission.
We have an associated citizen science project called "Planet Hunters."
However, not only are people interested in doing this, but the citizen scientists that work with Planet Hunters have actually found planets in the data that would have gone undiscovered otherwise.
So one citizen helped another citizen, but government played a key role here.
And meanwhile, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is now releasing its data to the public so that millions of citizen scientists, maybe including you, can bring the power of the crowd to join the search.
In fact, there's a method to being an engaged student, teacher, citizen.
It is because the state, theoretically, acts on behalf of all citizens collectively, not any one citizen individually.
And the state has the discretion to dismiss criminal charges, enter lax plea deals and otherwise remove a victim's voice from the process, because again, a state theoretically represents the interests of all citizens collectively and not any one citizen individually.
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