Sentences with phrase «democratic culture in»

The purpose of schools is to support generation after generation of democratic culture in order to foster whole people, healthy society and a peaceful world.

He reiterated his commitment to the stability of a democratic culture in Nigeria, which he noted would be achieved through the conduct of free, fair, peaceful and internationally acceptable standard of electioneering that INEC stands for.

Free Trade Nation shows how Free Trade contributed to the growth of democratic culture in Britain - and how it fell apart.

A free press is basic to the health of democratic culture in the civil sphere because it offers one line of public accountability for those in public office.

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A Whatsapp group run by the Kurdish - dominated Syrian Democratic Forces said Turkish and Syrian rebel troops tore down a statue in Afrin, in what it called a «blatant violation of Kurdish people's culture and history».

Marriott was founded 89 years ago in our nation's capital, so encouraging associates to be involved in the democratic process has long been part of our culture,» said Marriott International President and CEO Arne Sorenson.

The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

For the most part, the document echoes the moderately left - of - center positions of the Democratic Party, which is itself left of center in our political culture.

Watergate was in fundamental contradiction to the best in our democratic heritage and in full accord with the superbowl culture of male violence.

«These very points are the tension points in our church because it's the application of faith to a democratic culture,» she said.

We are forever putting conditions and qualifications on the love of God: «If you rid yourself of your racism, if you vote Democratic, if you accept Jesus as your savior, if...» Such conditional, achievement - oriented, self - made - men religion certainly doesn't need Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead to make itself plausible and reasonable in an achievement - oriented, you - get - what - you - deserve capitalistic culture.

Hence, in the current crisis of values in our contemporary culture, their approach provides a more open affirmation of the historical capability of democratic ideas and institutions («the American mind») to develop by uncovering their deepest roots.

The curious, and very dangerous, thing today is that the Democratic Party has come down almost unequivocally on one side in our culture wars.

Indeed, Böckenförde wholly neglects to give praise to that particular combination of democratic (or more properly, republican) polity, inventive, adaptive and mind - centered economy, and humanistic culture (of specifically Jewish - Christian, not merely Greek origin) that have brought the last three generations of Europeans the greatest internal peace, easy prosperity, and getmütlich ways of living in many, many centuries.

Keel carries no weapons in the culture war, and he figures that his people, hardly stereotypical evangelicals, vote Democratic or Green as often as Republican.

The first part deals with why the individual's right of freedom to «profess practice and propagate religion», and to convert to another faith and religion inherent in it, is a condition and guardian of all other democratic freedoms and fundamental human rights in State, society and culture.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

On the contrary, most counterfactual of all now appears the «secular» confidence, common not so long ago, that as a scientific and democratic culture unfolded, religion would gradually dissipate as an effective force in personal and social life alike.

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

... for the past 25 years, the Democratic Party, at least rhetorically, acknowledged that compelling taxpayers to fund abortions was a step too far in the culture wars.

Both democratic culture and a market economy push us in the direction of fitting work» that is, freely chosen work which both forms and expresses who we are.

What roles should Christian churches now play in the dialogue about democratic participation, discursive civility, and moral responsibility now emerging in diverse political cultures across the globe?

In most democratic theory (John Dewey's, for example) «culture» is a concept that usually links rationalized «society» and autochthonous «community,» which is true enough.

Huntington may be right about the possibilities of long - term adjustments to democratic thought and practice in cultures dominated by Islam and Confucianism.

This methodology regards all theological «truths» as molded by circumstance and culture; it takes more seriously the pluralism of the modern world and the importance of democratic consensus in church government.

These ideals may be seen as the last flowering of the Whig - Protestant ideal which, as in the Report, celebrated the harmonies of broadly Protestant and democratic culture.

It is rather paradoxical that while European political colonization is nowadays firmly rejected, the spread of European culture goes on apace in such forms as education, science and technology, democratic rule, and Western standards and ways of thought.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Thus democracy still exists — we thankfully still live in a democracy — but it is clear that we no longer have a democratic culture.

American Catholics for whom the noun, not the adjective, is determinative are thus faced with a brutal fact: Our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets.

Endowed by the Lord with all sorts of natural and culture resources, Guinea, paradoxically stagnates in poverty... Democratic freedoms are taken hostage by idealogical trends that can lead to intolerance and dictatorship.

Disciplined Christians have the opportunity to shape their own culture in this «democratic capitalist» society.

In a democratic culture, ordinary people want to hear the following: «Let's do something important, together.»

In his book, Free Culture, Lessig argues that digital technology enables a new sort of democratic creativity in which many can «participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.&raquIn his book, Free Culture, Lessig argues that digital technology enables a new sort of democratic creativity in which many can «participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.Culture, Lessig argues that digital technology enables a new sort of democratic creativity in which many can «participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.&raquin which many can «participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.&raquin the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.»

Also, Aspiration 3 states it in a different way, «Africa shall have a universal culture of good governance, democratic values, gender equality, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law».

Manhattan Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal introduced a bill that would outlaw all high school shooting sports programs in the state — including air rifle teams and archery clubs — on the premise that they feed into a gun and shooting culture that could lead to violence.

After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

«Joel had his share of problems at home,» the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate said, «but he was very effective at pointing out problems with state government and the culture of Albany, and how that affected local governments in a negative way.»

He opened the broadcast with a blast at the culture of corruption in Albany that enabled Silver, the Democratic former Assembly speaker, and Skelos, the Republican ex-Senate majority leader.

By most accounts, the task will not be easy, even for the highly popular Democratic governor, whose wide margin of electoral victory and long history in Albany has given him unusual influence within the slow - moving culture of the capital.

It will not be easy to break a culture that took hold in Nassau decades ago and flourished through Republican and Democratic administrations even as Nassau came close to insolvency.

Indeed, the current governing party in Bolivia, the Movimiento al Socialismo (or MAS), while committed to maintaining power by purely democratic means (and, in fact, responsible for an aggressive campaign to increase voter registration throughout the country) has stated that indigenous Andean (and by implication, Inca) culture is inherently socialistic.

Or that there is little place for democratic republicanism in the culture of English football?

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The conviction of a former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo spurred fresh demands to address Albany's culture of backroom dealing Wednesday — calls that New York state lawmakers have shrugged off in the past.

Cancel faces a spirited challenge in the heavily Democratic district from Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou, who has attacked Cancel for her ties to Silver and focused her campaign on the need to reform Albany's tangled political culture.

Appearing on his doorstep, he says he loves European culture and civilisation but there should be no confusion with that and a political project that is «basically being going on for decades, which I think is in real danger of getting out of proper democratic control».

«It is absolutely needed to sort of scrub down the Democratic culture of corruption up here,» the Republican gubernatorial candidate said of the plan in a news conference outside the state Capitol.

«We didn't need this guilty verdict for people to know corruption is a major problem in Albany, but it once again puts a spotlight on the drastic change we need to improve our culture,» said state Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who chairs the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

The conviction of a former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo spurred fresh demands to address Albany's culture of backroom dealing Wednesday — calls that New York state lawmakers have shrugged off in the past.