Sentence examples for citizen movements from inspiring English sources

Global media and international citizen movements have changed the game since the Cold War.

Such concerns have spurred citizen movements to win moratoriums in Quebec, New York and France.

Now, toll rage is transcending toll plazas with fledgling citizen movements that aim to run tollbooths off the road.

His faith in Europe was somewhat restored when he came into contact with citizen movements providing support, and he has found friends among Italian lawyers offering their services for free and the young people helping him find cheap accommodation.

Thailand was important because it was a country that was trying to establish a rule-based constitutional democratic political order at a time when the power wielded by political parties, business interests, and networked citizen movements seems to move at speeds that render the slow-grinding wheels of the law marginal.

The job is to work out how to bring together the old and the new worlds of data – the government statisticians with the Silicon Valley developers; the citizen movements mapping their unmapped cities with the custodians of global numbers in UN agencies.

We need a broad citizen movement if we are to reweave the social fabric.

This is the year of elections," says Maria Sarungi Tsehai, founder of Change Tanzania, a social media citizen movement.

An article on Saturday about an antigovernment "sovereign citizen" movement that uses fraudulent lien filings to retaliate against local officials attributed a statement about the movement erroneously.

The sovereign citizen movement traces its roots to white extremist groups like the Posse Comitatus of the 1970s, and the militia movement.

But although there is a growing citizen movement in the United States clamoring for more aggressive action on climate change, the E.P.A. itself "has no constituency," Ruckelshaus said.