Sentence examples for citizens rule from inspiring English sources

But, in a democracy, citizens rule.

A grand-jury-like panel of lay citizens ruled last year that Mr. Ozawa should be indicted after prosecutors had twice found insufficient evidence to press charges.

An independent judicial panel of citizens ruled last July that the men should go on trial, after public prosecutors had twice decided not to pursue the case.

The novel is a celebration of London - "London," Winsor writes, "stinking dirty noisy brawling colourful - was the heart of England, and its citizens ruled the nation".

Unfortunately, "inadequate citizen rule" or "doubts about corporate governance" are not among the choices.

Democratic societies have an interest in preparing citizens to rule and to be ruled.

Trump, or "Chuanpu" as they call him in China, has been a gift to Communist party spin doctors paid to convince the country's 1.4 billion citizens that rule of the people is a sure path to chaos and destruction.

Israel's counter-terrorism bureau urged its citizens to rule out any travel to Turkey after a suicide bombing tore through Istiklal Street, a shopping precinct in central Istanbul, leaving the three Israelis, an Iranian and the bomber dead and another 36 wounded.

In the Laws, purporting to be a discussion of how best to found a polis in Crete, he presents a detailed program in which a state with some 5,000 citizens is ruled by 37 curators of laws and a council of 360.

This construction devaluates the democratic principles of citizens' self-rule.

When compared to the direct forms of democracy found in the ancient city-states, notably Athens, representative institutions appear to be poor substitutes for the ways that citizens actively ruled themselves.