Sentences with phrase «democratic than the country»

• Lean Democratic districts are 5 to 10 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.

• Strong Democratic districts are 10 to 20 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.

Not exact matches

In the end, the existence of programs such as PRISM and Stellar Wind is disheartening for Diebert, since democratic societies are supposed to be better than the less - free countries they often condemn.

In every election around the world, we keep improving our tools to help more people register and vote, and we hope to eventually enable hundreds of millions of more people to vote in elections than do today, in every democratic country around the world.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

Fact is Islam usually is prevalent in illiterate countries that are over populated and have higher intolerance of opinions (e.g. Saudi Arabia and Iran) than in the western traditional democratic nations with christianity as our back bone to our laws and governess.

Together, Cuba (15,805) and Iraq (14,580) make up about a third of this figure; each country's refugee total is larger than the next three countries — Myanmar (4,973), the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC (4,496), and Sudan (3,988)-- combined.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

«Our management style in the Sochi city administration is now more democratic than in some Western countries,» he says.

Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, NDP, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, says she will build four salt companies along the coastal areas of the country, saying the salt revenue will be more than what Ghana earns from gold when well developed.

In order to assess if some country is more / less democratic than another, their «democracy» must be quantified, so that a comparison can be made.

That's interesting, Every «democratic left» country has a worse economy than the «democratic right» except the USA and I would dispute that the USA is a leftish country, sure it's idiot President is but that's all

«Now more than ever, we need leaders at the Democratic National Committee who will continue the fight for social and economic justice, take on entrenched special interests in Washington and work to unify communities across the country,» Brown said.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

The democracy index by The Economist (also see Wikipedia) is almost systematically classing countries that were recently dictatorships as less democratic than the longer term democratic countries.

Also, it must suffice to say that Ghana has reached a critical point in its democratic growth where it needs a coalescing force that will sustain the stability that this country has enjoyed for more than a decade of democratic transitions.

«It is a democratic party... indeed we mid-wifed this Constitution that led to the Fourth Republic so we are more committed to the Fourth Republic than any other politician party in the country.

For example, if your political program foresees exterminating some social group, for example people taller than 1.90 m, you would be forbidden in (almost) any democratic country, even if you say, they will be exterminated only after you take the power and change the consitution.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

As you can see in the Democracy Index from 2017, there are quite some European countries (14 countries, if I counted them correctly) that are evaluated to be more «democratic» than US, which has a fairly good place (21).

The film's being debuted across the country in a steady roll rather than all at once, so the producers (working with Democratic consultant Chris Lehane) are hoping to build a national audience incrementally without having to resort to expensive mass - market tv ads (though I've seen some targeted cable ads).

It is the sixth presidential election since the country of more than 45 million people embraced a multi-party democratic system in 1992.

Warren later pointed to Democratic gains across the country and in Massachusetts itself this past Election Day, and higher - than - expected Democratic turnout as proof of that unity.

With their actual system, they fighting corruption harder than lots of democratic countries.

According to International Transparency, China is fighting corruption harder than Mexico, Argentina, Cote D' Ivore, Nepal and more democratic countries.

«We believe that the Party which is more democratic than any other in the Country, will be united towards winning elections at all levels in 2019.

The Buffalo News over the past couple weeks reached out to more than two dozen chairpersons of Democratic parties in all regions of the country.

I've been the majority leader longer than anyone in the history of this country except for Mike Mansfield, and I'm proud of the work I've done, and so is my Democratic caucus.»

At the end of August, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had $ 54 million left to spend on races across the country, $ 40 million more than the National Republican Congressional Committee.

«In our country, it's not right when men and women work hard at a full - time job and can't earn enough to make ends meet or support their families, but Congressman Shithead would rather chose Tea Party ideology than help hardworking families,» said Emily Bittner of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The EU Ambassador averred that since the country's return to civilian rule in 1999, the EU had consistently identified with and supported democratic institutions, key stakeholders and had so far committed more than 100 Euros to supporting various institutions in the country.

Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut raised more than $ 3 million in mostly small donations from around the country in the first three months of the year.

He was named to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's «Red to Blue» fundraising program a few weeks ago, a selection that should guarantee him no less than $ 150,000 from a slew of donors around the country.

We probably would not say these are the most democratic or open societies in Africa, and yet they are growing and moving faster than several other countries that have strong democratic governance and creating a better life for their people.

The news that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved more than $ 35 million worth of air time in 31 districts across the country gives us our first real sense of what the House playing field might look like this fall.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent better than $ 3 million on that seat — its largest single race expenditure in the country.

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

Since Mongolia's democratic revolution in 1990, the country's livestock numbers have more than doubled, intensifying environmental stress.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

Miller describes the broader picture of the democratic decentralization processes unfolding across more than 60 countries in the developing world, since the late 1980s and early 1990s.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

Even with a Democratic president who strongly supports the charter model, and congressional leadership pre-disposed to choice and innovation; even with more money and muscle behind our movement than ever before, efforts to expand innovation and opportunity in states that already allow both, or to seed new schooling innovations to suburban areas have been roundly routed across the country.

Ever since Bernie Sanders emerged as a major contender for the Democratic nomination for president, debate has heated up about whether the Nordic countries whose welfare states he celebrates — countries like Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway — really do provide a better life than the United States.

In the centre of a country run by a xenophobic real estate developer likely to gut the federal public housing budget, an architecture biennial could make radical strides by focusing on the ways smart, sustainable construction can preserve and improve democratic societies, rather than on glitzy projects for the exclusive few.

At the final Bangkok session, the European Union, supported by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several other Congo Basin countries, used procedural grounds to refuse to reinstate the conversion safeguard, despite strong requests to do so from more than 20 countries including Brazil, India, Mexico, Switzerland and Norway.

When corporations or cults or foreign countries so overexploit a resource as to collapse it, invariably we know there were voices of individuals warning the world this was coming, and individuals making up the democratic majority expressing the will to avoid this collapse, and we see governments continue to listen to corporations or cults or their own inertia rather than immediately and democratically changing course.

IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network — a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.

At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.