Citizen in sentence

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I wasn't a citizen of that country.

Today we have the opportunity, and we have the imperative, to create thousands of new ways of interconnecting between networks and institutions, thousands of new kinds of juries: the citizen jury, the Carrotmob, the hackathon, we are just beginning to invent the models by which we can cocreate the process of governance.

We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report that the United States Patent Office will be rolling out universal, complete, and total openness, so that all patent applications will now be open for citizen participation, beginning this year.

If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

And as you can see, it's not really accessible or understandable to an ordinary citizen that is trying to understand how the government is spending its resources.

We're going to be able to learn so much more about human thought and expression, about everything from love to attitudes, because everything is being recorded now, but what does it mean for the average citizen?

I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?

I led an initiative by the Libyan Women's Platform for Peace to lobby for a more inclusive electoral law, a law that would give every citizen, no matter what your background, the right to vote and run, and most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists, creating the zipper list.

We put the citizen first, and not the clerks.

And that's something that each and every citizen and voter needs to ask themselves.

It was at that time, with an awareness fired by Bucky's prophecies, his concerns as a citizen, as a kind of citizen of the planet, that influenced my thinking and what we were doing at that time.

Average citizens often were chosen for citizen juries to decide on critical matters of the day.

Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.

Bruno Giussani: You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.

And every citizen should be able to download an app that shows the population of drones and autonomous vehicles moving through public spaces around them, both right now and historically.

There is more that we're doing to explore this idea of collective intelligence, that I, as a citizen, if I share the information with whatever device that I have, could inform you about what is going on, and that if you do the same, we can have a bigger picture of what's going on.

The typical Portland citizen drives four miles less, and 11 minutes less per day than they did before.

And just as busways are, protected bikeways also are a powerful symbol of democracy, because they show that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important to one in a $30,000 car.

So it affects you as a citizen and as a taxpayer, because you and your fellow countrymen have to pony up more in order to borrow.

I'd say I'm an American and I'm a citizen, just like everyone else.

How do you characterize the American citizen's right to privacy?

He said, "What about as a citizen?

And then may you, may you join this movement, not because you're a politician, not because you're an expert, not because this is your field, but because if you are, you are a citizen.

It was outrageous to be called an enemy when you're volunteering to fight for your country, but that was compounded with the word "non-alien," which is a word that means "citizen" in the negative.

They even took the word "citizen" away from us, and imprisoned them for a whole year.

We are arguably one of the most successful citizen science projects in the world, and we have created the largest open dataset of radiation measurements.

In the case of Safecast, a bunch of amateurs when we started three years ago, I would argue that we probably as a group know more than any other organization about how to collect data and publish data and do citizen science.

In large parts of the world, higher education is unattainable for an average citizen.

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