Sentences with phrase «by democracy now»

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But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Canadian democracy and politics have been warped by this insidious conservative domination of the public sphere for decades now.

«Now is the time for us to get serious about protecting the integrity of our democracy by closing legislative loopholes,» says Swann.

As the measure now moves to the U.S. Senate for further consideration, perhaps the upper chamber would be wise to remember that this nation was founded as a democracy — and that its actions would be by, for, and of the people.

«Puerto Rico is now beset by two distinct, but closely intertwined, crises,» Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez said in 20now beset by two distinct, but closely intertwined, crises,» Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez said in 20Now's Juan Gonzalez said in 2015.

They will of course be judged by courts typically secularist in mindset and now at the cutting edge of introducing a new, inappropriatelylabelled, «liberal democracy».

The concert was sponsored by the Congolese Rally for Democracy, a Rwanda - backed rebel movement than began fighting the government in 1998 and now controls much of the country.

In Costa Rica, long a beacon of democracy in Latin America, there is now a remilitarizing of society generally, symbolized by the U.S. military exercises taking place in Costa Rica's national parks, in spite of objections by the Costa Rican government.

Thus, there is a key subtext in Sigmund's book, a kind of subliminal message to be received by North American readers already caught up in celebrating perestroika: «Come now, liberation theologians, announce this day whom you shall serve, the revolution of old or the democracies that are growing in this bright new day.»

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

Those who are surprised that this position is presented as a defense of democracy have perhaps not been paying close attention to the judiciary's now long - standing repeal of the principle, «government by the consent of the governed.»

For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.

It is sad that Harrington did not live to see the transformations now taking place in Eastern Europe and Latin America as the people there struggle for (or stumble toward) democracy, for he would have been vindicated in his critique of the betrayals of the best dreams of socialism by the Leninist - Stalinist deviations that, he thinks, subverted the more promising aspects of Marx.

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Keane argues that «representative democracy» has now been overtaken by «monitory democracy», in which power and authority are open to continual scrutiny and challenge.

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

We should therefore care less about definitions, and ask the real question: is representative democracy now so overshadowed by capitalism that it is no longer able to make room for the popular sovereignty upon which it was founded?

Social workers operate at the fault lines of democracy - and now we must protect those put at risk by a Tory government

Meanwhile, the countries of the Arab world, having fought for democracy in defiance of the US rather than having been inspired by it, are now able to access financial support from other sources (such as China), and may be less inclined to conform to US desires than was previously the case.

Now, the idea of representative democracy and state legislatures is that state representatives and state senators are chosen by local voters to represent their interest and generally funded by local interests or, in some cases, state party interests.

It's being organized by the legendary (and lovely) Julie Germany, now of DCI Group but formerly director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, and will be co-sponsored on the conservative side by Right Wing News.

Now the «flag of democracy» is held by the United States.

Also on Friday, the first phase of the party's democracy review, chaired by former MP Katy Clark, now Corbyn's political secretary, will conclude.

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).

There are omissions: I can find no mention of the attempt in 1968 by Cecil King to overthrow the government of Harold Wilson and replace it with a government of businessmen headed by Lord Mountbatten - now that surely was subversion and ought to have been of interest to an agency concerned with threats to our democracy.

Another group that has quickly become a real force in progressive politics across the nation is Democracy for America, http://www.democracyforamerica.com/, the PAC formed by DNC Chairman Howard Dean at the end of his Presidential Campaign and now run by his brother Jim Dean.

«Having succeeded in deepening our democracy by making possible a peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another, says Atiku, the task before the people now is to work for national unity and peace in the land to lay the foundation for nation - building.

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.

He suggests appalling failures by John Sharkey (now Lord Sharkey, made a Lib Dem peer even while he headed a democracy campaign for fairer voting).

Now, a string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain's electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum — and the worrying implications it has for British democracy.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.

Constantinides has previously been endorsed by Congressman Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights), several members of the City Council, New York's Working Families Party, 1199SEIU, Brooklyn - Queens NOW PAC, Hotel Trades Council, Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union, Amalgamated Transit Union, City Council's Progressive Caucus Alliance, and Democracy for NYC.

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.

He was appearing at a mayoral candidate forum hosted by Democracy for NYC and Act Now, on March 5, 2013.

It is now the colour adopted by the Take Back Parliament campaign in the latest chapter in the struggle for a fair representative democracy.

It has now wound up, and its email list is held by Unlock Democracy.

Forget Mexico: The community in peril is now an American frontier town called Rose Creek, threatened not by bandits but Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who introduces himself by declaring, «This country has long equated democracy with capitalism, capitalism with God,» before an audience of (presumably confused) townspeople.

But now we are told, by right wing conservatives who despise social democracy, that public education is an evil and that the best thing for the poor is to get their children into a charter school, nominally public, but typically managed by a private charter school management company (backed by Wall St money).

Please help democracy in Thailand as there is now one old Thai politic party trying to kill Thai government by they had already before settled their teamwork: 1.

One of three speeches given by the founding members of W.A.G.E. at the first Creative Time Summit: Democracy Now, on September 27, 2008.

, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Intervention / Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Somerset, UK Ambition d'Art, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne - Lyon, FR Redone, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL A Bookcase for Onestar Press by Lawrence Weiner, Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Reconstruction # 3: Artists» Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Advancing the Experience: Robert Ryman & Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH Art Basel, Kino Mascotte, Basel, CH Cul - de-sac, curated by Lino Polrgato, Small Dead End Courts Around Venice, IT 2008: FREEDOM - American Sculpture, curated by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU Slow Glass, Lisa Cooley, New York, US Thoughts On Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's «Four Freedoms» Poster, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US artCRUSH, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Translocomotion 7th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Julian Heynan, Henk Slager, Shanghai, CN German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE TEXT drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, UK Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Une Grosse Caisse dans un Orchestre Symphonique, Center d'art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Wall Rockets: Contemporary Art Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US XX, CAG, Vancouver, CA Wall Works, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, CH ABC No Rio 2008 Gala & Benefit Auction, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York, US The Panza Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US 2 x -LSB-(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)-RSB- + 2 = XX (DESPERATELY) TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE WORLD, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part I, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, CH, Part II, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, US Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, US Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, NO Passage To The North, screening SI Annual Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, US Posesion, curated by Montserrat and Pablo Sigg, Petra, Mexico City, MX Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US Order.

Also represented are four New Yorkers: Jane Jacobs, a journalist, author, and activist who fought and stopped the Robert Moses Lower Manhattan Expressway; Amy Goodman who is an investigative journalist considered a «guardian of truth» by Rolling Stone magazine, and the host and producer of the news program Democracy Now!

Increasingly unimpressed by NPR's «journalism,» I've been getting my daily «news fix» via MP3s from Democracy Now!

Had Matt England's ire been unbridled by such vulgar preoccupations as free speech, democracy, and academic independence — the sort of thing he and Ward seem hostile to — science may not have made the discovery he now claims as his own (if it is indeed a discovery).

And Democracy Now, which has diligently reported on the activity at Standing Rock, posted a video of private security hired by the Dakota Access Pipeline Company attacking protesters with dogs and pepper spray that has over one million views on YouTube.

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...