Sentences with phrase «based on democracy»

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.

It suggested that the federal government should «commence the implementation of the 2014 National Conference, Set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as the basis of providing healing, reconciliation and forgiveness in Nigeria, Set up machineries to develop a new Constitution for Nigeria based on Democracy as the only National Ideology.

Mahmoud Abbas should leave power based on democracy.

Not exact matches

Rasiej is the founder of Personal Democracy Media, a New York - based group that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology.

This bolsters our initial conjecture that New Democracy might be able to form a coalition with PASOK, as the latter appears to have won 11 - 12.4 percent of the vote based on the most recent polls.

It treats every user equally on the basis of real transactional data, establishes a scientific and standardized credit rating, and displays the characteristics of blockchain equality and democracy in the field of credit investigation.

It will be one between developed states — two democracies If Canada and Korea are to make a go of another 50 years of solid relations it will on the basis of a very different reality and accompanying dynamic.

Any substantial defections requiring the support of major opposition party New Democracy would open up the possibility of broader changes to the government or a referendum, said Saravelos, who calculates that between 10 and 40 Syriza lawmakers could dissent based on local media reports.

Democracy is a system of government based on representation by the population of eligible members of a jurisdiction.

To allow the CEO of a company to dictate what laws the company will or will not follow based on his personal beliefs flys in the face of democracy.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

Our own nation's willingness to limit responsibility for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam to those immediately involved suggests a vast difference between a democracy based strictly on a legal code and one rooted in Old Testament morality.

«Through the workings of a diplomacy based on the balance of power, a local conflict was transformed into a European war, which itself, through the influence of industry, democracy, and the rough equivalence between the opposing forces, grew into a hyperbolic war.»

The other part of our legacy, a Consti tutional Democracy based on freedom is also an important truth.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

This statement, originally titled «A Christian Women's Declaration,» was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington - based Institute on Religion and Democracy.

The former Sunni insurgents and the «moderate» Shia didn't come together based on a shared commitment to freedom and democracy, but they might have been able to share a relatively stable country together.

Iran developed an Islamic republic, a governmental structure based largely on the model of a Western parliamentary democracy.

He urged young people to thank God for «the extension of democracy» based on the dignity of the human person.

We need to create an alternative society based on gender justice, ecological sustainability and local - global democracy.

Democracies based on the accommodation of competing interests are inherently unstable.

The use of the mass media in a democracy of worth is based on four principles.

Even Friedman's argument for democracy is based on the view that it eases the nation's integration into the global market.

It was his defense of democracy (which had so recently been under military attack), and a corrective of its traditional defense (which he felt was based on an overly optimistic estimate of man's moral capacities).

Democracy would be possible solely on the basis of a most Christian population.

Philosophers of Chinese Culture, however, less pessimistic, see more of the promise of democracy in China based on the intentional and eventual recovery and rejuvenation of its authentic rich culture.

Respect may be based on political demands, i.e., respect of persons is a necessary prerequisite for democracy.

It was a primitive democracy, uncritical and unconscious, for there is no ground to suppose other than that every senior member of the group was admitted to the governing body purely on the basis of his age.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

... A society like a modern democracy can at best only deal with the question: What is my proper role in an association based on the rights of various, disparate wills?

Second, liberal democracy is based on the principle that every adult is the political equal of every other adult.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

This essay is based on THE CLASH WITHIN: DEMOCRACY, RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE, AND INDIA»S FUTURE, by Martha C. Nussbaum.

But what you probably are, is a «white, middle class american» who has free access to democracy and clean drinking water, and you do nt have to dodge bombs from B - 52s on a semi regular basis.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

They turned out to be based on erroneous information (weapons of mass destruction) and a dreamy idealism (democracy)» there was and is much to criticize» but the arguments for war in 2003 were articulate and admitted of just war analysis.

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.

We are a democracy, so just like many laws are based on Christian ideals (regardless of what other citizens believe other than Xtianity) laws in the future could be based on Islamic ideas - all it takes is enough voters becoming muslim.

Fox believed that men should be guided by the Inner Light, protested against formalism in religion, advocated an extreme democracy which would put men and women on a basis of equality, stressed simplicity in dress, food, and speech, opposed all participation in war, and insisted on truth - speaking.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

Without this foundation, American democracy can only be based on a type of secularism that can not allow, let alone guarantee, the place of religions in the public realm.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

But, he outlined three threats to American democracy — economic inequality, racial divisions and the retreat of different segments of society into «bubbles», where opinions are not based on «some common baseline of facts».

If representative democracy worked well the representatives would have been able to make those tradeoffs based on evidence.

Democracies with muslim minorities tend to have secular leaning voters and few elected muslim officials to begin with, so it's not a big stretch to imagine most of the latter voting based on party conviction much more than on religious conviction.

The new rules in this area state: The Academy Trust shall ensure that principles are promoted which support fundamental British values, including: respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England; respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes; support for equality of opportunity for all; support and respect for the liberties of all within the law; and respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.

My decision to vote «Leave» is based on my belief in democracy, socialism, and a political economy which protects the living standards of the British working class.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

James, It has to be based on specific judgements about whether there are free and fair elections, and other aspects of democracy, in each country.