Sentence examples for indigent citizens from inspiring English sources

Sullivan had previously been the chief executive officer for the Public Defender Service, in Washington, D.C., which provides legal representation for indigent citizens.

It should be noted, though, that there are no laws requiring cities to provide food, shelter or restrooms for their indigent citizens.

Thus was born the individual mandate, the requirement to sign up with the new private universal health care system that is being argued about in the Supreme Court, with the government picking up the bill for low-income and indigent citizens.

He explains that the lack of central authority following the emancipation of black slaves in the South resulted in "the capture and imprisonment of thousands of indigent citizens almost always under the thinnest chimera of probable cause or judicial process....repeatedly the timing and scale of sites in arrests appears more attended to rises and dips in the need for cheap labor".

"I think that's the administration's position, and he was carrying the administration's water," said George Kendall, a New York attorney being recognized for his lifelong devotion to indigent citizens and prisoners whose rights to counsel were ignored by the criminal justice system.

Meanwhile the public health services are patronized by the remaining 80% of indigent citizens [ 33].

Executive Summary Advocates for Legal Equal Access is a not-for-profit public interest law firm that provides civil rights legal representation to indigent Portland citizens.

And, he said, Ms. Kagan had expanded the clinical teaching program at Harvard so that "thousands of indigent and under-represented citizens received quality legal services that they otherwise would not have been able to afford".

The system includes an insurance program designed to provide health care for those citizens who are indigent or who cannot otherwise afford adequate medical care.

The money our society spends to insure that its citizens won't be indigent in their old age is money that could be spent on something else.

In 1786, the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor was formed by citizens concerned at the size of London's indigent Black population, many of whom had been expelled from North America as Black Loyalists — former slaves who had fought on the side of the British in the War of Independence.