Sentence examples for competent citizens from inspiring English sources

"We have proven that we can take a child with low test scores and G.P.A.'s and make competent citizens out of them," Dr. Ponder said.

A three-year study by the MacArthur Foundation found that spending time online is "essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age".

And here we are, we competent citizens, every one of us a professional in our sector, who haven't got criminal convictions, who, after two parliamentary terms will go home, who have passion.

Shouldn't we love these branches of government, just in order to be worthy and competent citizens, let alone presidents?

"They don't need a legal solution – they need more civil engagement to educate netizens to act as competent citizens with social media".

BCCO is a mirror of Berkeley, California: egalitarian, progressive, courageous and perhaps, a little outrageous, comprised of an over representation of America's most competent citizens.

It is possible, the liberal critics claim, for a morally sensitive and epistemically competent citizen to regard only certain religious considerations as providing decisive support for a given coercive law.

Thus, when a competent citizen, according to Italian law, agrees to become an organ donor, is that citizen really oriented towards those actions that may facilitate the realization of his/her aim?

All mentally competent adult citizens should be eligible to vote and run for office in free elections that operate against a backdrop of freedom of speech and association, and in which all votes count equally and majority rule prevails.

It is our contention that all adult and competent Italian citizens, while expressing their consent/dissent to the donation of organs as provided by law, would formulate prior directives specifically concerning EV.

In the case studies we highlight below, struggles for environmental and reproductive justice have often converged as communities have become concerned about the impact of environmental contamination on their ability to reproduce and create culturally competent tribal citizens.