Sentence examples for contributed citizens from inspiring English sources

He also peppered his remarks with lessons in American civics, noting that each country represented in the hall has contributed citizens to the United States and to New York, "and people continue to come here in large, large numbers to seek freedom, opportunity, decency, civility".

It's about helping young men become productive, contributing citizens.

Yet more than half of the world's Muslims are today contributing citizens in democratic societies.

That said, he also named Christian Laettner and Nick Van Exel among those who have come to Dallas with bad reps only to morph into contributing citizens.

As the historian Shirley Tillotson demonstrated in her 2008 book, "Contributing Citizens," the era's dominant charitable institution, the Community Chest — the predecessor of the United Way — helped create a "common culture of contribution" shared by charitable donors and taxpayers alike.

It's shaping them into respectable, contributing citizens who take responsibility for the world.

Members facilitate the development of students as contributing citizens of Canadian society.

Civic integration in Denmark, since the mid-2000s, has increasingly been complemented by civic selection, or the notion that only those individuals who have the potential to be contributing citizens and who fit the country's liberal egalitarian way of (family) life should be allowed in.

Yet prisoners who educate themselves leave prison to become contributing citizens, paying taxes from their legitimate earnings.

If politics were not a factor, leaders like Eric Holder would argue for reforms that inspired prisoners to work toward emerging as law-abiding, contributing citizens.

Since politicians keep their focus on perpetuating failure, those behind the Michael G. Santos Foundation work independently to create comprehensive modules that prepare prisoners to emerge as law-abiding, contributing citizens.