Beyond this, Obama's goals in office — extending health care to all, using the fiscal power of the government to support full employment, regulating financial institutions to protect ordinary citizens, leveraging the government's power to buttress civil rights — have defined his party for decades.
Government paved the on-ramp to space, now the vehicles taking us up to the space highway are being built by citizens, leveraging off government-catalyzed technologies and needs.
Using DipNote, the State Department's blog, recording videos from all corners of the world, especially where girls and women are considered second-class citizens, leveraging technological tools that, as we're seeing in the response and outpouring of support for Haiti, allow us to become "global citizens," Clinton can be the Web's first global diplomat.
The United States has refused to allow North Korea to use the fate of imprisoned American citizens as leverage to force the opening of official negotiations.
Central banks used the collateral power provided by citizens to leverage vast amounts of central bank money – about $16 trillion – to bail out the global banking system.
Since then, it has played a critical role in helping to ensure that the next generation of business leaders and policy makers are environmentally literate citizens who leverage technology and information to manage and protect the land, air and water.
Programs like those funded through the Captain Planet Foundation help to ensure that future generations of business leaders and policy makers are environmentally literate citizens who leverage technology, science and information to manage and protect the land, air and water upon which all life depends.
By actively engaging a broad group of citizens and leveraging the strengths of community partners, the clear potential exists to blaze and document pathways for other neighborhoods and cities across America to replicate similar projects.
Citizen science leverages natural human abilities such as visual pattern recognition or spatial problem-solving skills aided by online computer games.
First, we describe some applications in security and intelligence that would benefit from massively collaborative problem solving, including how such a framework can leverage citizens to increase situation awareness and responsiveness to significant events.
We create citizens who can leverage person-to-person hospitality into a new sense of community.
