Sentences with phrase «attack on democracy»

We are concerned about this fundamental attack on our democracy and civil rights, and Duke Energy's support for it.

Meanwhile, Bernadette Smyth (pictured) from the pro-life group Precious Life, branded the measure an «outrageous attack on democracy».

«Let me be very clear: this is not only a full - blown attack on democracy, it's an attack on the 20,000 members that we represent.»

Attempting to silence people you disagree with is a direct attack on democracy.

Undertaken to distract from their unrelenting support for the TPP, the most profound attack on democracy, labour rights, environmental laws and national sovereignty there has ever been in US history.

He attacked the process by which the bill was considered — «a stealth attack on democracy» — and said the tax cut for New Yorkers making between $ 20,000 and $ 200,000 is barely a few dollars a week.

We can not let the Tories get away with this malicious political attack on democracy, the Labour party and people's right to associate and organise through trades unions.»

Perhaps most alarmingly, ALEC is spearheading attacks on our democracy and civil rights, promoting Voter ID legislation and other bills intended to make it more difficult for people to vote and participate in our democracy.

The lawsuit calls the case an «unprecedented attack on democracy.»

It's an attack on democracy, what happened yesterday; it's the well of hatred that killed her.

«The horrific rampage in Nice is a direct attack on the universal values our two countries have long championed and upheld,» Cuomo said, adding, «This is not only an attack on France, but an attack on democracy.»

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a media bill which journalist groups have condemned as «draconian» and an attack on democracy.

The party said, «The APC hereby condemns this action and views it as an attack on our democracy and a desecration of the hallowed institution of the National Assembly.

This is not only an attack on France, but an attack on democracy.»

«The way to stand up to Trump's attacks on our democracy and working families can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, a labor - backed group that has pushed Democrats to embrace liberal policies.

Not sure I exactly see what the problem with nationalisation is, the idea that it's bureaucratic sounds like an echo of attacks on «big government» — which is basically an attack on democracy.

If the abduction and murder of three High Court Judges and the army officer in the 80s were grievous and heinous, an attack on democracy and rule of law, then this can not be praised.

This is an attack on our democracy and goes against the so - called critical thinking that the NYCDOE purports to be promoting through Common Core,» states Katie Lapham, English as a New Language teacher and author of the education blog, Critical Classrooms.

This is an attack on our democracy and goes against the so - called critical thinking that the NYCDOE purports to be promoting through Common Core.

In this attack on democracy, governance by locally elected school boards is stripped away altogether.

Ed Broadbent discusses its attack on democracy.

Secret political ads are by definition an attack on democracy.

«Although they didn't change actual votes or alter the outcome, their efforts were an attack on our democracy.