How To Use Citizenry In A Sentence

Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
The prospectuses and programs of most American colleges and universities claim to educate for citizenry.
They were regarded as the main tool for keeping citizenry informed and engaged in building a unified nation.
As the citizenry hurried up the steep streets of Citadel in a tide of rumour and fear, the family made its own way to the assembly ground. A TIME OF WAR
And when the anger moves from more easily dismissible protesters in Lower Manhattan to a larger swath of the American citizenry, comments like Perry's "I don't care about that" will not be received well. Mitchell Bard: Income Inequality Is the Achilles Heel in the GOP Strategy to Demonize Occupy Wall Street

The call for more of these every time there is a serious accident seems to be the gut response from citizenry and officialdom alike.
After your children married and had children of their own, you were relegated to grandparenthood and looming senior citizenry. Kristen Houghton: Women's Relationships Aren't Age-Specific Anymore
When your toooo busy accepting $$$ from lobbyist, the welfare of the citizenry is nae important. Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
`Upon his return from the wars the weary warrior is greeted by the indifference not to say hostility of an ingrate citizenry. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
I am one who believes that despite years of errors in judging, laxness of citizenry in guarding, and legal wrangling in the following years, ... the constitution is clear and means today what it meant then — no government is empowered to get in the way of owning and carrying a gun. The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
For example, how does one sell the image of a benevolent corporate citizenry that has the best interests of society in its heart?
Democracy depends on an informed citizenry, and the right wing consciously strives to misinform the American public by erasing the distinction between journalism and propaganda.
It just seems unseemly that the greatest military power the planet has ever known now has a currency that makes its citizenry globetrot with our tails between our legs. Trey Ellis: Brother Can You Spare a Euro?
‘Because a well-equipped and well-practiced military eligible citizenry is necessary to keep a nation free, ...’ The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines
Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
These comments were not an exercise in constitutionally-protected free speech, but a moment of publicly-recorded hate for certain segments of American citizenry, wrongfully conflating homosexuality with liberal/progressive politics. Think Progress » Oâ€™Reilly Resorts To McCarthyism, Plans To Publish Online Enemies List
Lego is, like, the perfect device to enculturate a citizenry intolerant of smell, intestinal by-products, nonadherence to unified standards, decay, blurred edges, germination, and death. Microserfs
A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
Granted, the brutal treatment the citizenry's been subject to would seem to make your point for you, but do keep in mind the treatment newly absorbed nations tended to receive at the hands of the politburo.
Georgian terraced houses, designed for a walking citizenry, are tall and narrow. A guide to British architecture
I also realize that one implication of the amendment is the use of firearms to accomplish political goals in the event that the government becomes irresponsive to the will of the citizenry. What Hillary Clinton will mean for American shooters
Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry.
The citizenry has responsibilities too - to vote, to think, to inform themselves, even to participate.
darkside" of growth and the citizenry, as well as the supervisors of Heaven County, are not happy with what they see. Novatownhall blog
On an ambitious weekender including Cleo Laine, Joe Lovano and Iain Ballamy, plus genre-crunching Mercury nominees Led Bib, the Subway Moon project still stands out, a community venture promising much more than just a knees-up for the local citizenry. This week's new music
Unofficially, and as far as anyone around here was concerned, the neighborhood was Felony Flats, a name bestowed by police officers some years earlier because of the concentration of criminals among the citizenry. The Sins of Brother Curtis
As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows.
The newspapers have been responsibly restrained in their editorials which reflect the growing fears and safety concerns of the citizenry.
The populace became a supplicant citizenry dependent upon the state rather than themselves and the socialist state aborted indigenous traditions of working class self – help, reciprocality and social insurance. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
No, no, no! They're right-the census is a scam on our citizenry! GOP Rep. urges conservatives to complete census forms
The people affected by Britain's ever-tighter gun controls are the citizenry, denied access to firearms for leisure or self-protection.
Back, now some 40 years ago the "revolution of 1968," the streets of Paris were astir with the mass demonstrations of first students, then citizens from all walks of life, marching against a government perceived as unresponsive to its citizenry. Raymond J. Learsy: Le Monde Aux Barricades With The Huffington Post
Indeed, the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are untouchable.
Observe as a cabal of billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging war and short-sheeting the citizenry.
Clearly, an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as, strictly speaking, a contradiction in terms.
The country's citizenry is/are more politically aware than in the past.
Nineteenth-century common-school advocates combined a desire for creating a liberal democratic citizenry with xenophobia, anti-Catholicism, and nativism.
It is ironic that these recent degradations of traditional citizenry have followed a period of 50 years unparalleled advance in the quality of material life.
Your citizenry are too drunk to make an informed decision.
In his novels, MacLeod never assumes that an armed and ungoverned citizenry will solve all problems.
Stop grasping abstracts like "change" and "hope" and try and live up to the level of public educationand informed citizenry which America professes to be. America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying
Most people don't like centralization, believing it results in bloat, bureaucracy, declining services to the citizenry, and worst of all, the risk of an unchecked power running roughshod. ~synthesis~
She said the style that became fashionable among the country's upscale citizenry became popular among ordinary people.
One of the arguments it Amuses me to use with people who believe that guns are both inherently evil and somehow self-willed is that there are far more guns in private hands in America now than at almost any time in the past, people seem to be less civil than ever, we find out more often than ever about how utterly wretchedly some politicians treat the citizenry, yet political assassination is less common now than ever it was. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Bad Old Days
(Majestic Crest, 10 pm) shows what happens when a small island town in the Pacific Northwest is attacked by gluttonish zombies: the braindead American media blames all that gore on terrorists, the family-values citizenry uses an Iranian-American woman as a scapegoat, the local pastor declares Holy War (I'm not sure if it's against Muslims or Zombies), and a visiting gay couple must decide if this is Alternative Film Guide
Assuming as much as half, or $25 billion is being set aside for rail, how does that compare to other nations who are already far ahead of us in providing modern up to date mass transportation for their citizenry, or at least far more farseeing in planning ahead. Raymond J. Learsy: America in the Caboose While the World Barrels Ahead on High Speed Rail
The US citizenry is helplessly (and for the most part, blindly) accepting whatever edicts are brought down "from on high" because they ~all~ now contain significant references to terrorism and Security of the Homeland; as a result, no one is even noticing! Who's watching the Watchmen
One of the beauties of living in a free society is the freedom of choice availed to its citizenry.
With the hip and happening credit-card citizenry pepping up its level of sophistication, speciality restaurants are in for more.
Inquiry into mysterious deaths was initially seen as a duty of the government, to ensure the safety of its citizenry.
If we have to, we can use this group to begin coordinating a direct citizenry attack on Conlin's claim to 'power' here, and show him that he's just a cog in the greater wheel. Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
Describing the average Orangeman as ‘the last thing in obscurantism, prejudice, and ignorance,’ he viewed the Order as the antithesis of an Irish Ireland citizenry.
The symposium was a clubby bastion of the aristocratic male citizenry, but as Ewen Bowie writes in The Oxford History of the Classical World, "melic poetry was at home everywhere," and there is evidence to suggest that rounds of lyric poetry became a standard form of entertainment at after-dinner soirees all across the Aegean archipelago. Poetry Pages - 98.06.10
Thursday, the local citizenry was quick to express its concern about the perceived lack of patriotism.
He embraced/endured traditional ambassadoring--here he is enjoying the heck out of a photo opp with the Easter Bunny--but his cause from day one was the corruption that has severely hamstrung Romania's growth, demotivated its citizenry and created a highly problematic climate for free enterprise, including American businesses and investment. Daniel Ben-Horin: Beyond the Easter Bunny: Ambassador Sparks Open Government Web Challenge
It is New Labour that has done so much to get members of its organisation on-message and on the same page, and members of the citizenry inside its Big Tent.
A free and democratic society requires a citizenry that can not be easily swayed by statistical flimflammery.
Many frontier inhabitants had perished, some cities had experienced food shortages, several colonies had been plunged into debt, and the citizenry groaned under heavy taxes.
The Government should cease interfering with the judiciary and start levelling with the citizenry.
So, in light of this scenario, it is the blind, unawake citizenry who will help set up the world government, if this scenario and this theory is correct and plays out. Infowars
`Upon his return from the wars the weary warrior is greeted by the indifference not to say hostility of an ingrate citizenry. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
The citizenry of totalitarian or violently dictatorial states have no legitimate means to discharge this fear.
They buzz around loudly on their motorcycles, terrorizing the citizenry with their dreadful lack of manners.
It loses votes, chews up a tonne of money, confers no apparent economic benefits and imperils the ‘clean green’ image upon which our exporters rely and our citizenry prides itself.
By paying land (resource) rents to ourselves, meaning socially collected, a citizenry is quintuply repaid through those massive funds building roads, railroads, water systems, sewer systems, and electric grids (any natural monopoly) as well as fund governments, provide education, health care and retirement. Archive 2009-05-01
The framework for total control of the citizenry, the economy and the media is being built upon in a relentless aggrandization of Govermental power. ' The Obama Dystopia
The same argument can be made that is often leveled against types of investigative journalism; in bringing a national security issue to light (and here for mere -- ptooey -- entertainment), one is trumpeting said tune not only to the authorities and responsible citizenry, but also to men in caves in that rugged border region. Gregg Hurwitz: What Made Von Brunn Do It?
A great mass of citizenry washed past on foot or bicycle as we negotiated the potholed high street on the river bank and turned on to the barrage across the Tigris built by the British in 1935.
The key in such a foreign policy will be to think of the people, the average citizenry first.
A virtuous citizenry, which Jefferson considered essential to a republican form of government, was most reliably constituted of yeomen farmers he believed.
Unfortunately, they fail to comprehend the basis for the citizenry's disdain and mistrust. cony First on the Ticker: DNC ad: GOP 'playing politics with our troops'
All of a sudden a cry went up, in the ancient tradition of alerting the local citizenry and raising the alarm.
Here, in a place said to closely resemble the North Bennington of Shirley Jackson's day, a dirge-like tune of unknown origin prevails from generation to generation, unquestioned by the brainless local citizenry: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
Do any of these countries have such a diverse population where over a quarter of the citizenry is made up of African or Hispanic decendants? Can a Godless Society be a
He used the medium of radio when he wanted to enlist public support or reassure the citizenry.
While we're at it - let's move the capitol out of that boondock of a marsh and make it accessible to the WHOLE state's citizenry. Byron Williams: California Must Change the Way it Does Business
After six years of war, the country suffered from hyperinflation, food shortages, ill-clothed soldiers, and a plundered citizenry.
The citizenry of Arlington was stampeded into approving a ½ cent sales tax to build the thing back in the mid-'90s after the Rangers began threatening to depart.
And how do you finger the recalcitrant citizenry who persist in just slinging it all in the bin rather than diligently sorting it?
You've got to have real estate where shooting is legal and tolerated by the local citizenry.
The empirical and historical evidence at hand - the linguistic, historical, political, social, cultural and anthropological evidence - attests to the ethnic identity of the citizenry of FYROM; that they are Serbo-Bulgar Slavs in origin, whose language belongs to the south Slavic language group of centum languages, belonging to the indo-European language group, and which is an amalgam of Serbo-Bulgarian, and which has no tie or historical relationship whatsoever to the Ancient north-western Greek dialect of Macedonian Inappropriate comment? nei hoa ma, ponk kai ley mou nai Makedonia yna zehi tse SofiaEcho RSS feed
Assumption Number Two: If the citizenry is an armed mob, then the forces of government, the police, etc., are always just, fair, and efficient, ready to protect you when trouble comes. When Only the Cops Have Guns, Who Watches the Watchers?
The citizenry - let us be strictly fair towards our infinitely credulous brethren - dote on him.
The wealth of nations will reside in that citizenry, and its commitment to education, training and lifelong learning.
A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
He must be lacking in judgement to be a senator and his attitude with that of other comical swipe on the judges comment on an intelligent Latina is nothing but the racial incesitivity by a dominant culture to devalue the rest of the citizenry. Cornyn to vote no on Sotomayor
If we have a poorly informed citizenry, what is the starting point for democracy?
A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
The Bush Interior Department believed that a sort of informal deputization of the citizenry could be effected by permitting it to march about in national parks with loaded weapons, confident that not all would prove as incompetent as former vice president and now official doom-sayer Cheney, who inadvertently plugged a hunting companion. Christopher Brauchli: The NRA Befriends the Credit Card
Any overinflation of the citizenry's sense of its role owing to the length of this cycle's primary season in no way changes the de jure state of the process. Pelosi prepared to 'step in' to end race
Clearly, UK media coverage of protestors offers a set of binary oppositions that are inimical to seeing young people as part of an informed, rational and democratic citizenry.
He used the medium of radio when he wanted to enlist public support or reassure the citizenry.
Colonist and silversmith Paul Revere rides through the night to warn the "Well regulated militia" in Lexington that the British are coming and an armed citizenry turn out on the village green and defy the Crown with armed resistance at the Concord bridge. 2010 tax on your firearms Is this really true ?
Her husband is a high-court judge and she herself, clearly unsuited to fading quietly into senior citizenry, has just been called to the Irish Bar.
But now, the American citizenry is deeply concerned and engaged with the political process - which is a very good thing. patNY Obama says Tea Partiers owe him a thank you
Crucially, however, incorporation into the upper reaches of strategy-making is offered only to representatives of the respectable citizenry.
While a flood of new discoveries may seem daunting, they should not undermine the core values of a calm and knowledgeable citizenry.
She felt better now that she knew the citizenry weren't in league with the Dead. SABRIEL
The word patriot comes from the diligence and awareness of a citizenry that once existed in the US, days long forgotten. Think Progress » Veterans Day Outrage: Conservatives End 55-Year-Old Practice of Hearings for Vet Groups
According to Mathews, this marked the demise of community-based education and the creation of a wide gulf between the citizenry and its public schools.
The framework for total control of the citizenry, the economy and the media is being built upon in a relentless aggrandization of Govermental power. The Obama Dystopia
That gap creates lots of profound problems, but the progressive immiseration of the citizenry is not one of them.
Throughout the history of nations, inflation has been a time-honored and subtle method for governments to plunder its citizenry.
At a time when Americans are confronted with increasingly challenging environmental choices, we learn that our citizenry is by and large both uninformed and misinformed. Bill Chameides: The Sorry State of Environmental Journalism
To an extent, they have a point – the general citizenry is under no obligation to be sensitive. Think Progress » GOP plans on reintroducing legislation to ban and deport immigrants from ‘terrorist’ countries.
Immediately it alleviates the citizenry of onerous repayments on obligations issued by previous governments.
He was always ready with a public quote, making him a very visible chief, apparently popular with the citizenry.
Who will tell us that unending and expanding prosperity with home values constantly rising and a citizenry always able to afford them is a fantasy that is bound to end in heartache for those who buy into it? Mjh's blog — 2008 — February
The citizenry begins to transform into hideously mutated monsters with an insatiable lust for hot human blood.
But then a body which has rarely sought the consent of its citizenry can have no complaints when it is seen as a distant and petty bureaucracy.
Political scientists have theorized that a better-educated citizenry would be a more involved one.
You should hear those pious warmongers curse a blue streak a parsec wide! live in a fantasy world if you must perhaps you should save your indignation for * actual warcrimes & corruption*, not pouting that language doesn't live up to your fantastical expectations? garsh diddily darn, if there aren't people who think the RAPE of the World & its international citizenry by the United States InvestorClass is somehow the * LESSER CRIME* than the language of allegory … ah, but there we have censorship: where whinging is their only art form & only means to exert influence over others. Rezo.net
The creation and sustenance of these institutions would not have been possible without the support of the local citizenry.
The citizenry are dispersed, with communication and transport limited, and idle and seditious thoughts banished from the head by a cocktail of the compulsory staging of musicals, tea dances, and the minimum of one hobby. Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
The aim of reconnecting with the European citizenry has been far from evident in their deliberations.
The modern state is one based on citizenry, on a constitution impartial to all, on a system without patronage.
How could the press or the citizenry distinguish between information and disinformation?
As the Founders declared an educated and intelligent citizenry is important for the continuance of our democracy. Democracy needs informed people, Obama tells grads
Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.
In all three countries, the citizenry occasionally votes, which can result in turnover within the national legislature.
Mass immigration into welfarist societies means losses to almost all the rich, poor and middle ranks of the citizenry. Opposition to Immigration: Get Your Story Straight, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A curious pre-echo of Brecht's sardonic wit in East Germany 30 years later when the citizenry was rioting against the autocratic Communist rulers: ‘The government will have to dissolve the people and elect a new one.’
It may quell a very noisy minority, but it does an injustice to the citizenry at large.
You're a nexus in a big web of relationships that extend beyond the world of work into the realm of family and citizenry.
In this way, it promotes new communitarian formulas and the constitution of individuality on the margins of the ethnic group, citizenry, and the state.
I fear the final result will be a disinterested citizenry who are non-participants in their own affairs.
In an argument which echoes Danny Kruger's On Fraternity, Blond states: Look at the society we have become: we are a bi-polar nation, a bureaucratic, centralised state that presides dysfunctionally over an increasingly fragmented, disempowered and isolated citizenry. The Red Tory theologian and conservatism's captivity to liberalism

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