Sentences with phrase «as affronts 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.

Andrew Cuomo didn't see this as an affront to democracy; for him it was just another case of maximizing his advantage and minimizing his risk, secure in the belief that not enough voters would take offense and act on it on Election Day to hurt him.

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This «affront to English democracy», as the Conservatives might brand it, might appal voters so much that the Speaker, or the Supreme Court, feels obliged to intervene.

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.

Allowing a pariah and disgraced leader such as Mugabe asylum in our country would be an affront to the values and principles upon which our constitutional democracy is based,» Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, said.

Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, described the Bill, which adopts EU law into UK statute, as «an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers».