Sentences with phrase «assault on democracy»
Any further delay is an outrageous and illegal assault on democracy.
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«This is the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I've every experienced,» he said during the day's first panel.
Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.
«During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all - out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump's campaign,» Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.
«Republicans in Congress have become enablers of the Trump - Russia assault on our democracy,» Pelosi said.
This is the so - called Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism, which writer George Monbiot described as a «full frontal assault on our democracy».
The Washington Post reports that DNC Chairman Tom Perez said: «During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all - out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump's campaign.»
Any further delay is an outrageous and illegal assault on Democracy.»
«The reckless and unconstitutional practices ICE is deploying in our communities violate everything we believe in New York and are an assault on our democracy,» Cuomo said.
At his East Side office, the Governor called the raids, «reckless and unconstitutional,» something that «violates everything we believe in New York and are an assault on our democracy.»
The All Progressive Congress has described as an assault on democracy Wednesday's forceful removal of the Mace at the senate.
«I associate myself with the comments of the Deputy Senate President that we are ready to get to the roots of this assault on democracy and ensure that those who are responsible, no matter how remote, will be brought to justice.»
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has vowed that the government will get to the root of the assault on democracy occasioned by the theft of the mace on Wednesday during a plenary.
Congressman Michael Grimm and his campaign made a big deal about an alleged break - in at his headquarters last weekend, calling the incident «politically motivated» and «an assault on democracy,» claiming hard drives in the office were erased and comparing the situation to the deadly shooting that left former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords critically wounded last year.
He further condemned the attack as «an assault on democracy.»
«Now how can we allow this assault on democracy?
It is an assault on democracy.
«The Conservative government's efforts to hamstring opposition parties is an assault on democracy and we will do all we can to resist these changes.»
The result is not just an obfuscation of fact and deliberate effort to slow any progress on addressing the most pressing issue of our time, but an assault on democracy.
Brulle goes on to describe this effort as an assault on democracy, since accountability becomes difficult.
In one of the strongest academic attacks on the ethical regulation of social research, Robert Dingwall described this growing intrusion as censorship, an assault on democracy and an extension of a growing surveillance society.