Sentences with phrase «against democracy»

While there was again a reaction against democracy in some places during the 1950s, it was not lasting.

This has even become an argument against democracy itself.

«We've never believed that these detailed profiles of people, that have incredibly deep personal information that is patched together from several sources, should exist,» he said, adding that these sort of profiles «can be abused against our democracy.

Africa has long suffered from the politics of the Big Man, and the danger is that South Africa will eventually turn against democracy for the easy «solution» of such a saviour.

Al - Zarqawi was the «most vicious prosecutor» of the fight against democracy in Iraq and his death is a blow to terrorists everywhere, Tony Blair has said.

At 12:15 p.m., residents of the Capital District will go to the offices of Republican Sens. Hugh Farley, Kathy Marchione and George Amedore to «serve indictments for crimes against democracy,» LOB, Albany.

Joselit is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910 - 1941 (MIT, 1998), American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003), Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT, 2007), and After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012).

Contorting models and predictions to lie about this so one can advance a centralized political agenda is not simply an insult to science, it's an offense against democracy.»

In July, Oxford researchers found that «computational propaganda is now one of the most powerful tools against democracy,» including that Facebook plays a critical role in it.

It is a continuation of this coup against democracy when those who have held Nigeria to ransom, decide on whom they want in power and then go ahead to manipulate the levers of power for their ends.

New York is a target by many «who want to make a statement against democracy, against freedom,» he argued.

World War II also set the international political landscape for the later half of the 20th century, pitting communism against democracy.

I mean, that is just against democracy.

Later, he added that those detailed profiles of consumers «can be abused against our democracy.

In hindsight, it looks like a good thing taken to extremes, a powerful weapon against tyranny of the majority turned against democracy itself.

Stop the Board before it commits more crimes against democracy.

Mashey makes a compelling case that Congress has been misled in the process - which is an offense against the democracy that think tankers claim to love (in addition to being a felony).

The Oxford paper concluded that «computational propaganda is now one of the most powerful tools against democracy.»

«The US government and our regulators need to understand how digital platforms can be weaponized and misused against its citizens, and equally importantly, against democracy itself,» he wrote at the time.

So the model American classroom would be animated discussion of the cases for and against Roe v. Wade, for and against polygamy, for and against democracy, and for and against a confessional state.

If they stand against the referendum, it means that they are against democracy.

But the main reason Plato must have been against democracy — and the reason for this overlong introduction to a review of «Our Brand is Crisis» — is the film's view that like juries, «the people» vote on emotions, largely, not on rationality.