Sentence examples for mass of citizens from inspiring English sources

The mass of citizens plays a passive, quiescent part, responding only to the signals given them.

So the US economy continues to impose crisis conditions on the mass of citizens.

In such a form of government, the more prestigious the office, the less the office holder is responsible or responsive to the mass of citizens.

At that moment, "the mob" gave way in American thinking to "the crowd" — the mass of citizens as a source of political legitimacy.

"Creating an Arab or Muslim party (in Belgium) will not serve the mass of citizens of foreign origin in any way shape or form", Jamal Zahri, a member of the country's Federation of Mosques told daily Le Soir.

There is no way that a mass of citizens, union members or not, will flock back to supporting Labour – much less join and become active members – until its politics fundamentally change in this direction.

A critical mass of citizen-voters wandered into the town hall.

Oil and gas discoveries often trigger an explosion of unrealistic expectations and require a communication strategy that builds a critical mass of citizen understanding through easy to grasp facts.

Albania, then Europe's most backward and impoverished country, continued to lurch from crisis to crisis with a dying economy, violent protests and masses of citizens fleeing abroad.

But even those soft spots register freshly, demanding retooled thought from anyone who would disparage them — in the company of masses of citizens whom they still and will always genuinely thrill.

But Egypt's people, immensely bolstered by the success of their revolution, with its stunning exercise of peaceful power by great masses of citizens, appear broadly confident that this experience will not be repeated.