Sentence examples for civic practice from inspiring English sources

Listening to the radio, then, would be a "civic practice" that could create a more democratic society by exposing people to diversity.

Such an autonomous civic practice, providing basic funding for Europe's unemployed youth, would doubtlessly cost a pile, but just a fraction of the zeros which have been, and are probably going to be, swallowed up by the rescue of the banks.

It is "contact based" leading to a "mutual belonging" of nationals and non-nationals and to a "civic practice and citizenship".

Because, Sandel argues, market values are crowding out civic practices.

In practical terms, the duties-based approach calls for development of the means to ensure civic practices and citizenship as well as a minimum level of competence in the national language and a minimum level of knowledge about the country's history and society.

The non-civic practices thriving in health care ("knowing the right people" and bribery) should be replaced by behavior models based on normative acts.

Civic ecology practices are community-based, environmental stewardship actions taken to enhance green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and human well-being in cities and other human-dominated landscapes.

Whereas civic ecology practices are growing in number and represent a participatory approach to management and knowledge production as called for by global sustainability initiatives, only rarely are their contributions to ecosystem services measured.

Further, we suggest that civic ecology practices not only create green infrastructure that produces ecosystem services, but also constitute social-ecological processes that directly generate ecosystem services (e.g., recreation, education) and associated benefits to human well-being.

People who have been generous, and who practice civic duty and pride in their communities understand and support Hantz Group's willingness to make this type of investment.

To this end, he claimed that "all citizens whatever their religious or philosophical persuasion" should maintain several responsibilities regarding the Constitution: understand it, support the law, practice civic virtue, maintain civility in political discourse, and promote patriotism.