Sentence examples for civic capacities from inspiring English sources

These will further challenge the traditional commercial and civic capacities that have allowed cities to avoid war when confronted with conflict.

From his farm at Duxbury he served in a variety of civic capacities: agent for the colony, surveyor of highways, deputy from Duxbury, member of the local council of war, treasurer, and, most important, assistant to the governor of Massachusetts (1623 41 and 1650 86).

Michael Sandel, for example, speaks favorable of 'proud craftsmen' in the Jacksonian era and of Louis Brandeis's idea of 'industrial democracy, in which workers participated in management and shared responsibilities for running the business' (Sandel 1996, 170, 213) Identification with the workplace and industrial democracy are said to improve workers civic capacities, but that may not be the case.

Their movements thus extend to former civic capacities and future possibilities, invoking more-than-urban (local, national, transnational) frames of action, exchange and obligation.

Empires end in ruins: commonwealths have hitherto been beyond the civic capacity of mankind.

"She has not served on any board in this community and has not served in any civic capacity on Staten Island," Mr. Curtis said.

The scheme is part of a Citizens Curriculumm pilot, which carries out practical work around the community and improves the "civic capacity" of disaffected individuals, as well as their family and friends.

Instead of being quantitatively ambitious, it aimed at building civic capacity through collaboration, information and resources.

'Civic capacity' is conceptualized as the presence of environmental groups and the involvement of environmental causes.

So civic capacity seems to matter, but in a rather surprising way.

Compared to other cities that have undertaken substantive education reform, Los Angeles has done a far worse job of developing and coordinating its civic capacity.