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community and action
To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.
The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.
Correlatively, can we reduce the role of the district courts, so that the action is that of the people of the community or other school district and not that of the law court??
The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.
The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.
Community building that is geared toward citizen action is usually termed " community organizing.
As well as teaching knowledge about democracy, parliament, government, the justice system, human rights and the UK's relations with the wider world, students participate in active citizenship, often involving a social action or social enterprise in their local community.
The consensus in the scientific community is that the Duesberg hypothesis has been refuted by a large and growing mass of evidence showing that HIV causes AIDS, that the amount of virus in the blood correlates with disease progression, that a plausible mechanism for HIV's action has been proposed, and that anti-HIV medication decreases mortality and opportunistic infection in people with AIDS.
Nonprofit organizations such as Adaptive Action Sports seek to increase awareness of the participation in action sports by members of the disabled community, as well as increase access to the adaptive technologies that make participation possible and to competitions such as The X Games.
For example, Jews who have converted under duress may be permitted to return to Judaism " without any action on their part but their desire to rejoin the Jewish community " and " A proselyte who has become an apostate remains, nevertheless, a Jew ".
Muralitharan's career has been beset with controversy ; his bowling action called into question on a number of occasions by umpires and sections of the cricket community.
The report concluded that " control of these areas of action is an inevitable component of social interactions in a group or community.
Initially the community and police were hesitant to act against PAGAD activities, recognising the need for community action against crime in the gang-ridden communities of the Cape Flats.
This action garnered mixed reactions from the wrestling community, where some consider it ruins the experience to the spectators as does exposure in illusionism.
( Deutoronomy ) This action was conceived of as a defensive measure to ensure that the Muslim community could be confident of its continued survival in Medina.
The phenomena of community action, shunning, scapegoating, generosity, shared risk, and reward are common to many forms of society.
As a result of this action, Chinatown remains the longest, continuous running Chinese community outside of Asia.
Seeing genre as a social action provides the " keys to understanding how to participate in the actions of a community " ( Miller 165 ).
He insisted on the invasion, although he expected that the international community would blame the USSR for this action ; the decision led to the Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 ).
Central to its mission was the idea of " community action ", the participation of the poor in framing and administering the programs designed to help them.
Lenkiewicz hoped that the exhibition, and the down and outs ' own stories, would illuminate the plight of these ' invisible people ' and galvanize the community into humane action on their behalf.
By 1955 effective political action groups within the Algerian colonial community succeeded in convincing many of the governors general sent by Paris that the military was not the way to resolve the conflict.

community and spurring
Bodil Graae wrote a newspaper article titled " Children Should Have One Hundred Parents ," spurring a group of 50 families to organize around a community project in 1967.
While the 65 Fifth Avenue plans were initially controversial among students and Village residents ( spurring in 2009 a major student occupation was held at The New School's previous building on that site ), plans for the University Center were adjusted in response to community concerns and have since been well received.
Soap's heyday was in the late 90's and early 2000s, when competing crews from across the Americas and Europe were releasing internet videos, spurring an online community of " Soapers ".

community and regeneration
The purpose of this was to ensure continued regeneration and benefit for the community of Thornhill.
The 2001 riots prompted governmental and independent inquiries, which collectively agreed on community relations improvements and considerable regeneration schemes for the town.
The vegetation structure, species richness, and plant community composition of salt marshes naturally regenerated on reclaimed agricultural land can be compared to adjacent reference salt marshes to assess the success of marsh regeneration.
They are promoted as a tool in community regeneration.
The town council's new document, available on the council's website, gives the framework within which it will lead the future regeneration of the community through to 2025.
This organisation was partly council funded, but quickly became a focal point for community regeneration projects.
Land adjacent to the development, formerly occupied by Bilsborrow primary school and the Stagecoach bus depot, both demolished as part of regeneration, remains vacant with no clear future use at present, though local community groups have short term plans to utilize the space for a gardening / food growing project.
Some believe that strategies of conservation, stewardship, and regeneration can be applied at all levels of scale from the individual building to the community, with benefit to the human individual and local and planetary ecosystems.
National regeneration funding streams, such as New Deal for Communities, require community leadership as part of their governance arrangements.
Her political interests include education, tourism, community safety, regeneration, social policy and the Emergency Services.
However the enterprising local population are pressing ahead with the regeneration of the community.
The new growth of seedlings and community assembly process is known as regeneration in ecology.
After Boris Johnson became Mayor in May 2008, he appointed Richard Barnes as his statutory Deputy Mayor, with the specific responsibility for community cohesion and regeneration.
It has particular currency to planners and architects, in relation to placemaking and community regeneration projects.
There is a space available to the community in the crypt of St. George's Church, known as The Crypt, which was built with support from a European Union urban regeneration fund.
Some areas, like Hulme, have undergone extensive regeneration programmes and many million-pound lofthouse apartments have since been developed to cater for its growing business community.
Garston was home to the ' New Slaughterhouse Gallery ' on St. Mary's Road, which aimed to promote local artists as well as community regeneration in partnership with the Garston Embassy on Wellington Street.
Hesters Way has been the focus of regeneration over the last decade with a newly built community resource centre and the demolition of several blocks of council flats ( most recently Pakistan House and India House ) which were derelict and deemed an eyesore.
As part of the regeneration project, a new park has been built and other improvements to community facilities are expected in the near future.
Whilst Communities First is a bottom up approach to community regeneration, it is recognised across the programme that for projects and activities to be successful, communities need to engage with local service providers in order to work together to address the problems associated with poverty and disadvantage within communities.
In his capacity as Sports Minister, McAveety advocated using sports investment as an opportunity for community regeneration and he oversaw Scotland's largest ever investment in national sports infrastructure, being developed in the East End of Glasgow.
It has acted as an invasive species there, negatively affecting forest community biodiversity and regeneration.
England's twelve community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s.
Later she became an independent consultant, working on community regeneration issues across the North West region.

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