Sentences with phrase «by democratic ideals»

As a matter of fact, the ability to recognize anti-Semitism as such is chiefly a modern capacity fostered by democratic ideals and sharpened by the reaction of civilized consciences to the racial atrocities of nazism.

Polygamy is excluded by the democratic ideal of uniqueness, of which sexual union is the consummatory symbol.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, democratic freedom may mean the ideal of the individual exercising his or her own free will — a value based upon solid conviction and nourished by a Christian view of the competence and dignity of the individual soul.

There was democracy as the political ideal in the Greek city - states before Jesus» time, and there are democratic roots — always impinged upon by aristocratic tendencies — in Greek philosophy.

Yet within a framework of disparate biological inheritance fixed by nature and of disparate social inheritance which is the result of both biological and human forces, the democratic ideal requires that every person be given an opportunity to experience the «abundant life» and do the work for which he is best fitted.

Through the diffusion of information by modern methods of travel and communication, democratic ideals are transmitted from one people to another.

Let us assume that the strangely contagious modern obsession with democratic ideals is nothing else than the feeling and liking Man has acquired for a process which, by the collective organization of the zoological group to which he belongs, is carrying him towards certain new states of super-personalization — or, which comes to the same thing, super-reflection.

As party unity talks swirl publicly and privately, Senate Democrats eyed Bronx Councilman Jimmy Vacca as an ideal candidate to challenge Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in a primary, documents obtained by Capital Tonight show.

The supporters wrote that as a result of Knapp's «staunch defense of voter rights and advocacy for Democratic ideals, she has been targeted time and again by the powerful Republican machine here in Dutchess County.»

«I wish to appeal particularly to the leadership, members, supporters, sympathisers and grassroots activists of our beloved party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was founded by Jerry John Rawlings on the ideals of probity and accountability to do more in making these ideas a reality.»

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King, who was hand - picked for his post by then - gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, releasing a stinging statement rebuking the 42 Democrats who put their names to a letter that suggests the governor is no longer holding true to progressive ideals.

The current state Assemblyman didn't seek the Democratic endorsement, but he has been heavily criticized by the county committee — cast as an opportunist, whose votes on women's equality and abortion rights, for instance, don't correspond with the party's ideals.

To the Members of the Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee: At our founding, what made America different from every other country that existed before was a commitment to an ideal that had never been advanced — that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The PDC has a long history of promoting Democratic candidates and ideals and is chartered by both the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Democratic Central Committees.

By giving the power back to the members to define their ideal of beauty in a democratic way.

Faculty and administrators can promote democratic ideals and respectful dialogue by:

As members of a society committed to the democratic ideal as a chief organizing principle, should we be concerned by teachers» conservative tendencies?

Schools are at the heart of the democratic ideals so loved by the United States of America.

After Lao Zhang, an artist with democratic ideals, disappears leaving only a cryptic note, Ellie is pursued by agents of two separate security organizations and by Creepy John, a young Chinese man who claims friendship but exudes menace.

The location alone — a military site formerly accessible only to a few and now open to all — is itself a democratic concept that upholds the ideals being presented by the artists tackling difficult topics like displacement and loss.

The exhibition presents the story of The Cooper Union, its origins in the values adamantly held by Peter Cooper, and its historic promotion of the democratic ideals of free education, social justice, philanthropy and civic virtue.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.

I suspect that Garner and I differ quite a bit politically, but I like to think we agree that the ideal of equal treatment under the law is best served when legal writing strives to be democratic (note the lower - case «d' there) rather than exclusionary, and, legal terms of art aside, understandable by any literate person.

In this sense, social media's ability to transmit vast quantities of information, which can be augmented by links and images as discussed in Part II, directly aligns with the democratic ideal of opening up the courtroom for the world to see its contents and to judge its outcome.

The rule was adopted in an opinion written by Justice Glenn Terrell in which he made the often - quoted observation that lawyers owe a special duty to our society's democratic ideals.