Not exact matches
The German conquest of Czechoslovakia
in March 1939, however, convinced almost all
decision - makers
in democratic countries that Germany constituted a risk to the international system.
Of course people can express their dissent and we can have that policy debate and then we'll arrive at a
democratic decision and then we expect people to unite
in the interests of the party and the
country overall what to what we don't expect is people going to the media two days before polling to say there is going to be a coup against the leadership.
Mr Speaker, if the citizens of this
country could see the time and care taken
in making these
decisions; the carefully - targeted nature of all our interventions; and the strict controls
in place to ensure that the law and our
democratic values are upheld; and if they could witness the integrity and professionalism of the men and women of the intelligence agencies, who are among the very finest public servants our nation has, then I believe that they would be reassured by how we go about this essential work.
A Member of Ghana's Parliament on the ticket of the National
Democratic Congress, Richard Quarshigah has defended government's last minute
decision to increase allowances of national service personnel
in the
country.
The temptation for developing
countries to go nuclear is particularly common when the political regime is not
democratic, as happened previously
in South Africa, Brazil and Argentina and as is currently happening
in Iran, where national prestige can overrule rational economic
decisions and sensible energy policies.
There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his
Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign
countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration
decisions are made at the behest of private industry,
in particular those
in which Republican donors have significant interests.
In a
democratic country such as the United States, media literacy is important because we need to be able to make informed
decisions on our own if we are going to protect our freedom.
oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions
in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-
democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives
in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of
countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups
in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question:
in an earlier version, a CP.15 -
decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign
in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the
democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft
decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes •
democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??
CCD supports the
decisions of the federal government to retain a prohibition on assisted suicide and euthanasia, which was reached after careful consideration of the views of Canadians and
in the best
democratic traditions of this
country.
Schiff fiercely condemned that
decision and said the
Democratic minority would continue working on prescriptions for protecting the
country in the future.