Sentence examples for citizen standing from inspiring English sources

But it is hard to believe that they would have unleashed 41 shots in a white neighborhood, aiming at a white citizen standing in his own vestibule.

A weirdly dangerous episode for a picture book, but in it I see a hint of the lone citizen standing in the path of the tank.

In April 2015, the fifth district US court of appeals ruled against a civil suit by Sergio Guereca's parents because "a Mexican citizen standing in Mexico" has no standing in a US court.

It is not hard to believe at all, because on Aug. 30, 1999, the police fired 12 shots at a white citizen standing in front of his basement apartment in a white neighborhood.

If Gingrich had any guts, or lasting principles, he would now sound alarms about the absurdity of a court decision equating the Norman Rockwell citizen standing at town hall to the anonymous millions that can kill a candidate in less than month.

Eventually grabbing a bottle proffered by a concerned citizen standing roadside, Zaaf lowered the contents in one lengthy draft, but continued zigzagging hopelessly along the road in an apparent state of delirium, before falling off his bike and being dragged into the shade of a tree by a number of spectators, where he proceeded to fall asleep.

Such claims are offered many times a day here, usually by Iraqi citizens standing before American soldiers.

With the first ruling in 1965, the case was among the earliest to grant citizens standing to sue for environmental well-being.

Levinson also discussed what is called an insurrectionist interpretation, in which the Second Amendment is thought to allow for a militia of armed citizens standing "ready to defend republican liberty against the depredations" of a government become tyrannical.

A. Now that you mention it, look at those images from Katrina, of American citizens standing on top of their houses, holding up signs that say, help me, save me.

Why can't we come together and say all lives matter?" He said he had heard stories of ordinary citizens standing guard to protect police officers this week, if they spotted them pumping gas.