Sentences with phrase «backs on democracy»

«Public schools provide opportunities for all students and exist to support democracy, so politicians shouldn't turn their backs on democracy when it comes to the top education post,» she said.

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Georgiadis told CNBC that if New Democracy was back in power the party would not make the country so reliant on the state.

The Email Privacy Act has received support and backing from groups like EFF but also think tanks like the Center for Democracy and Technology, which called it «common sense» legislation that both sides of the House can agree on.

I calculated the level of democracy using the Polity dataset from the Center for Systemic Peace, which is the only data series on democracy that goes back to the mid-19th century.

The democracy of public school and soccer practice and work blends us all in together, and here, you're as likely to see a Nishan Sahib decal as a Christian fish, on the back of the minivans at the mall.

Organized religion will all but vanish eventually from nine Western - style democracies, a team of mathematicians predict in a new paper based on census data stretching back 100 years.

If we throw in the towel on democracy — and with barely half of Americans bothering to vote, perhaps we already have — and go back to a having a king, for my money we could scale back our expenses on hiring a court jester and poet and nominate Kelly to occupy both roles.

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

A political action committee that backs public financing, Friends of Democracy, is spending heavily on behalf of Senate Democrats to create a public financing program.

The only advocates of the view that devolution in England is not just about reviving economies but also about improving democracy are the regionalist parties based precisely in the areas that the mainstream parties are trying to «put back on track» with their devolution proposals.

«Attorney General Schneiderman is right — for years in Albany there has been too much patting ourselves on the back for passing piecemeal reforms, while the problem of corruption only grows worse,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

When I was at school, I remember learning about politics not through the metaphor of a journey, but a pendulum, swinging back and forth between the two parties, keeping the nation as a whole ticking on nicely... That's a metaphor for a healthy two party democracy.

Labour members voted for six candidates backed by Momentum and the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy to represent the constituency Labour parties on the 33 - strong NEC.

In February he backed the focus on Soros, calling him «perhaps the most dangerous man in western democracy».

He noted that the deceased had lived a fulfilled life on earth and gone back to her creator and urged Gov. Ikpeazu to strive to deliver more democracy dividends to the people of the state.

Ultimately, council elections will cast judgement on whether modest council tax hikes in the name of local autonomy and better services are preferred over ever - diminishing central government hand outs, but the gloves are now off as local democracy fights back.

The open letter, which was launched by Unlock Democracy and Take Back Parliament on Wednesday, now has 3,500 co-signers.

Mkenya Solidarity is now publically supporting the CORD alliance (Coalition of Reform and Democracy) led by the Luo Prime Minister Raila Odinga, having turned its back on Uhuru Kenyatta (after publically supporting his Presidential bid in the 2002 elections and allegedly being under his patronage in the 2008 PEV).

He adds: «If you do decide to go ahead, the first step is to make sure that you are an individual member of the Labour Party... Moreover, it is important to ensure that those serving on the relevant CLP committees and holding constituency - level office back member - led democracy.»

In contrast to their one - on - one televised debates, which have consisted largely of Stringer alluding to the «black socks» prostitution scandal that ended Spitzer's career as governor (and Spitzer countering by pointing to the array of entrenched financial interests who along with Lena Dunham are backing his opponent), the candidates used this forum (co-hosted by Democracy for NYC, Living Liberally, and ACT NOW) to fill out their visions for how the office might be more of a progressive force than it has been under incumbent John Liu, the longshot Democratic mayoral hopeful.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

I know that those who carelessly condemn him in public, clandestinely go back to heal wounds knowing what the man represents, his affability, readiness to listen and reluctance to get emotional easily no wonder after years of intense condemnation, Prof Martey openly praised him for his humility and assured him of his constant prayers to succeed.In our bid to get our parties to office, we must also consider the safety of our nation and the cohesion we've enjoyed so far.I don't think the Npp in its current state can manage its internal issues if elected into office let alone manage the nation.Our democracy shouldn't be toyed with in the name of political extremism and unworkable promises.We don't need a leader who will establish himself by intimidation and force, who will choose henchmen around himself, create secret police and abandoned all pretence of consulting the wishes of the masses but will only expect regimented YES from us on all national issues like we seeing in the Npp today.

Lawmaker representing Ijebu Ode / Odogbolu / Ijebu North East at the House of Representatives, Hon. Kehinde Odeneye, has called on Nigerians not to appraise President Muhammadu Buhari based on his democracy day speech because there is nothing really much to say about a year into his administration where he was so much inundated with the task of putting what was abruptly left by the previous administration back into perspectives.

If you believe we will not have our democracy back until we eliminate the influence of money on our politicians and policies, then join us in standing for PEOPLE, PLANET, PEACE, OVER PROFIT.

Instead, it has encouraged the President to fall back on military tactics, which are antithetical to democracy and the result is resistance from the other arms of government and critical stakeholders.

«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.

He has argued strongly for Labour to back a customs union with the EU27, something that has now become party policy, but in an article for the Guardian, Smith says his party can only «serve democracy», by recommending a poll on the Brexit deal.

Lipinski is facing a primary challenge from marketing consultant Marie Newman, who secured the backing of NARAL, MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday.

What New York requires now is «a healthy public discussion about the need to move on and get back to the business of democracy,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government watchdog group Citizens Union.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

In the election's wake, Robert Pondiscio (appropriately on the staff of Democracy Prep school) asked, «Can a Redesigned AP Government Course Get Schools Back into the Civic Education Game?

I guess we can go back and forth on this, but tell me this: if the Gold Standard is such a great idea, why isn't there a single democracy in the world on it?

We would like to continue doing this as an independent company that funds our own properties and retains ownership of our IPs, to the end that over time our back catalogue continues to generate money for the studio until most of the team leaves and I begin work on the videogame equivalent of Chinese Democracy.

The world's great democracies have been built on the bloodied backs of Haitians, and the beneficiaries of Haiti's sacrifices have yet to acknowledge their complicity in Haiti's impeded development...

Thus, as we celebrate MTCSALC's 25th anniversary and look back on our achievements over the last two decades, we believe it is important to also take a critical look at the current state of (in) equality in Canada, and engage in an open and honest dialogue about the future of our democracy.