Sentences with phrase «about one's democracy»

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Why can't those MPs just be honest and admit they don't care about democracy and only want changes which are to their advantage?

If so, then perhaps the problem is the way we think about democracy in the first place.

One of the great things about democracy is the fact that ordinary people can change history through the simple act of voting.

Similarly, many schools absorb British values into existing school practices, such as learning about democracy via the school council.

The psychologists knew that what they found caused discomfort and challenged old - fashioned ideas about democracy, but scientists - they said - could not be held responsible for their findings.

It's about our democracy as well as our party.

But we asked him about fracking, how he feels about democracy in the party, who's calling the shots.

Schools might teach about democracy, but what messages are students actually receiving?

They never knew about democracy or human rights either.

In addition we aim to incorporate a range of opportunities to educate students about democracy through the personal development curriculum.

«There are some legitimate questions about democracy and local community values,» he said.

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He says he spoke with many people about democracy and «our conduct within this place».

We will survive this guy — and learn a lot about democracy.

Use this resource to start conversations about democracy in your classroom and to challenge your students to be active participants.

We have created a public rhetoric about democracy anchored in technological mathematics, not in human understanding or cultural interpretation — not even in civil discourse.

From what I can gather, it's about democracy for a very small group of rebels.

I have been hearing a lot in the recent years about democracy and capitalism.

In a previous article, I talked about a new research project that aims to fill some of the gaps in our knowledge about democracy promotion.

This is one of the things that I like about democracy.

There is even a lesson about democracy built into the apprenticeship programs.

Its citizens must know something about democracy and about individual rights and responsibilities.

Our curriculum experts have assembled a great collection of resources to help you teach the upcoming election cycle and get your students excited about our democracy!

Does this also contribute to her message about democracy and politics?

And this is changing how we think about politics, it's changing how we think about democracy.

There's an important lesson here for those who care about democracy.

Second, it's about democracy as we'll be asking them that at least half their members are dues paying.

«It isn't really about democracy in Venezuela.

Whilst Plaid Cymru will be examining these proposals closely and look forward to being at the heart of debates about democracy in our country, we believe that decisions about elections in Wales should be made in Wales and not in London.

«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»

If they were really worried about democracy, they would of course be complaining that the basis of the government's energy policies — environmentalism — had not been tested by the democratic process, and that climate sceptics are routinely excluded from the public debate.

Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?

Invade other peoples» countries to bring about democracy when the chief of state is not elected in their own country.

The very same leaders who love to go to third countries and lecture about democracy and human rights now are trying to disregard the voter's choice and transform the EU into a «banana republic».

Surely, it is perfectly intellectually credible to support a majoritarian electoral system: it just weights different things about democracy differently.

«But the other reason why I think it's unfortunate... we really should be talking about the substantive issues about our democracy.»

I'm not sure about the democracy bit in the UK... the draconian measures taken by the Tory - LDs on such a mandate, looks like a neoliberal coup d'etat to me.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, West, at HGSE last fall for the Askwith Forum, «Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, and Prophetic Fightback,» speaks about democracy, the importance of activism, and the difference between schooling and deep education.

Given such obstacles, what's striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.

Even before the recent U.S. presidential election, Canadian governments were concerned about the weakened ability of the news media to inform the public about their democracy.

Nothing about democracy in his statements, it's all about economic freedom pereptrated by the likes of Hayek, Flannigan, Harper and those crazies pushing their propaganda at the Fraser Institute.

Yet what is most consistently communicated about democracy in the late 20th century is what Edmund Burke and our founders would identify as a «vulgar appeal» to those appetites that, given free reign, make society impossible.