Some articles on citizens:
... has established statutes regulating who can become naturalized citizens because of the benefits it brings ... the government has assigned to being able to compel military service of its citizens if necessary ... of vital importance, for if all or a large number of citizens oppose such defense the 'good order and happiness' of the United States cannot long ...
... The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCa) is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe ... gave rise to a new peace movement called the “Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly” ... creation of new social relationships, new forms of dialogue, through which citizens can negotiate with governments and each other, put pressure on political institutions, and, indeed ...
... Scholars such as Mogens Herman Hansen suggest the pnyx was able to hold about 6,000 citizens, though later expansions may have accommodated 8,000 or as many as 13,000 ... scholar Robert Flacelière states that the Pnyx had enough standing room for as many as 20,000 citizens ... estimate of the number of politically active citizens (citizens were free males born in the city, or perhaps 20% of the adult population) ...
... service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the European ...
... The Soldiers - Royal Lyceum Theatre (preview, Edinburgh International Festival), Glasgow Citizens Theatre Cassio in Othello - Royal Shakespeare Company Demetrius in A ...
Famous quotes containing the word citizens:
“As Jerome expanded, its chances for the title, “the toughest little town in the West,” increased and when it was incorporated in 1899 the citizens were able to support the claim by pointing to the number of thick stone shutters on the fronts of all saloons, gambling halls, and other places of business for protection against gunfire.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens ... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand ... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)