Sentences with phrase «affront to democracy»

While today, «enlightened» liberals espouse the harm to America's democracy when Black people exercise school choice, in yesteryear, educated and empowered Blacks were looked at as affronts to democracy.

The conduct of Parliament in Iceland is seen by many as a direct affront to democracy.

«It is my cherished hope that parliament would not endorsed this total affront to our democracy and which would be a further spit in the face of the lady Chief and the Judiciary.»

The stupidity and criminality of petty thieves and idiots in the Legislature is an unacceptable affront to democracy and decency, to be sure.

The labels are puerile, reductionist, unjournalistic, and an affront to democracy.

London bus workers in seventeen bus companies will still be on strike tomorrow (Friday 22 June) despite a high court injunction which Britain's largest union, Unite branded an «affront to democracy.»

Launching a coup (and an increasingly incompetent one at that) against a leader just nine months after he was elected with an overwhelming mandate from the members, with no reason to believe that this support has significantly changed, is such an affront to democracy that adjectives to describe it fail me.

Predictably the news was followed by «outrage» from the press and the Labour Party over the affront to democracy such donations represented, followed by a statement from David Cameron claiming it had nothing to do with him and that Peter Cruddas was acting independently.

He described the comments by the president as careless and an affront to democracy when he as the Commander - in - Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces should have known better.

New York should be leading the nation when it comes to voting rights — but our registration and voting systems are an affront to our democracy,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

He said Ukip would not launch a formal complaint because he said nothing illegal had taken place, but added: «Postal voting on demand is an affront to our democracy.

Granting an injunction in the face of a massive vote for strike action is an affront to democracy.

Utterly outrageous and an affront to democracy.

Critics argue the Lords has become too big — it has 783 active members, a number that could swell to more than 1,000 over this parliament — and that it is an affront to democracy that the vast majority of its members are appointed, not elected.

Appointments representing votes cast not only requires the continual periodic increase in the number of members (without some mechanism for getting rid of peers) but is frankly an affront to democracy: if proportionally representing votes cast is seen to be important it is curious that it should apply to the appointed rather than the elected house and if popular support is the measure why not have elections?

This is an affront to both democracy and the rule of law.»

Politics left untethered is an affront to democracy.

Distributed networks are the future, the virtual monopolization of «owned» networks is an affront to democracy on - line, in virtual space but also to a global democracy.