Sentences with phrase «democratic political people»
Also we have some pretty top notch democratic political people in Massachusetts and they seem to think that Patrick can win so who are these «establishment» folks who love Gareili?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ Not exact matches
For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic assemblies: «How this assembly would coexist with other preexisting bodies of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will of all the people, and in the face of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»
The democratic process of political institutions accountable to the people is not so hopelessly imperfect that the preceptorship of the courts is preferable.
Mr Tatchell told Premier's News Hour: «In a free and democratic society people have a right to not promote political messages that they conscientiously object to.
Since the emergence of the new political landscape dominated by the Ethiopian Revolutionary People's Democratic Front (ERPDF) in 1991, Protestantism in Ethiopia has grown to the point where it now accounts for almost 21 percent of the population.
He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.
In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.
The people as participating agents in the political process succumb to the syndrome of apathy, hopelessness, and de-capacitation, and the national democratic states are weakened.
This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.
Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.
This would work on condition that political evolution in the north and the south of the Mediterranean and the Sahara strengthens the potential for democratic and social affirmation of the people concerned.
So the Mormon Church is a cult one day and not a cult today because you want to Christians to vote for Romney... I love Rev Graham but this is a terrible move on his organization's part... I have been critical of so call «Rev» on the Democratic side and now I'm disappointed with the so called Evangelical Christians on the Republican side... God is not political and we shouldn't try to manipulate people using His name... on either side of the aisle...
On May 7, the people of the United Kingdom will troop to the ballot box, furrow their brows, pick up their political pencil of destiny and make their democratic cross of decision.
In his reaction to the incident, Benson, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), blamed the attack on his political opponents.
«I congratulate my political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, on the successful resolution of its leadership crisis by the supreme court of Nigeria.
Similarly, it posted the political comments or mass - media representations of the protests and asked the participants to critically engage with them, thus engaging people in a simultaneously democratic and intellectual process.
Any political uprising which isn't democratic (which isn't including the citizens as followers) will be a result of a single person's ideology shared by several others in power.
Voters are more likely to support democracy and accept the outcome of democratic elections — which is important if electoral violence is to be avoided — if they trust that people like them will not be excluded from political and economic opportunities just because their candidate lost.
He expressed disappointment over why Osafo Maafo in a conversation with his own political party people would be recorded secretly and leaked to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
On the contrary, regional identities in the North of England could be mobilised as part of an inclusive political project that seeks to nurture shared civic and democratic values and bonds — a plan that «speaks to the people» and aims at actively involve them in the construction of a better future for their region.
«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.
No matter in which direction your political compass points home, the current democratic framework appears incapable of realising the hopes, and assuaging the fears, of the British people.
In the political calculations, alignments and re-alignments of 2014 which brought back Aregbesola for a second term, Adeleke emerged a factor that was required to complete the rank of all former governors of the state to be on one side (that of Aregbesola) as against ambition of the then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore.
«Without any doubt Crystal Peoples - Stokes has reached a point of the most influence she's had since she got there, absolutely,» Democratic political consultant Jack O'Donnell said.
PRONACO; the main citizens» movement advocating for national restructuring based on democratic self determination and peoples» ownership of the Nigerian constitution said the interjection of the political class has reignited hope for national cohesion and political stability in the country
You can find people from every corner of the political spectrum involved in Anonymous, I personally know of some from the far - left as well ass from the christian democratic center to right - wing extremists.
For example, if your political program foresees exterminating some social group, for example people taller than 1.90 m, you would be forbidden in (almost) any democratic country, even if you say, they will be exterminated only after you take the power and change the consitution.
But in their self - imposed season of anomie, Afenifere committed the ultimate ideological apostasy, by their own Awoist doctrine: pushed the wrong cause, backed the wrong horse, kept the wrong company, and coalesced behind the wrong person, as arrowhead to Aso Rock, in Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, ruthless political hustler and survivalist, who just defected to the wide - and - merry Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the supposedly straight - and - narrow Labour Party (LP).
George Arzt, a veteran city Democratic political consultant and longtime aide to former Mayor Ed Koch, told Business Insider he believes «a lot of people» are eyeing a potential run against de Blasio.
Sen. Ighoyota Amori, Political Adviser to National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described All Progressives Congress» (APC) target to take over power in...
The Political Adviser to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Senator Ighoyota Amori, has said that the party has enough credible candidates for the 2019...
Rather, he is engaging in political persecution in his bid to weaken opposition both in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and within his own party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).»
Mr. Díaz, not unknown to make controversial statements, said he wants to «show the high level of hypocrisy among many, many people in this business of politics and media» regarding Mr. Lopez, who was once the powerful boss of Brooklyn's Democratic Party before his sexual harassment scandal shook the state's political landscape a few weeks ago.
There will be little support for a new political agenda based on a participatory process unless local communities understand such processes and receive protection from the state — and people see that the democratic process will indeed bring more benefits and security than before.
On August 28, 2007, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards proposed what he called «Brownie's Law» requiring that «qualified people, not political hacks», lead key federal agencies.
«When a big item like that comes up, no matter what political affiliation, they're voting against it, you're bringing that volume of people out and jump on that Democratic line and voted right across and that's what they did,» said current Legislature Chair John Mills.
In the heat of the election to halt the Peoples Democratic Party's 16 years rule in 2015, the new coalition of opposition political parties that formed the All Progressives Party brought in a renowned American political strategist, David Axerold, to help develop and implement the strategy that facilitated the demise of the former ruling party.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only political party in Nigeria.
Elected officials, Nassau Democratic political leaders and labor officials joined her along with about 250 people.
«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.
Tiwa n Tiwa l'Osun is a socio - political movement that came into existence on the need to achieve democratic excellence, economic prosperity, political advancement and social emancipation for the people of Osun.
«We are united in defending the basic democratic principle that ordinary people have the right to a political voice.
Governor Fayose also congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Seriake Dickson for having the people of Bayelsa behind him, adding that «the people of Bayelsa have shown that their power is more than that of the Abuja political oppressors.»
In his reaction, however, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP leader, Mr. Sola Olowoye, said the political thugs were hired by a notable APC leader but were stopped by youths, who were resolved not to allow the election disrupted.
I don't want Odigie - Oyegun to run this party aground, he has mismanaged this party; I don't want us to lose our members to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party or any other political party for that matter.
The Peoples Democratic Party apparatchik says, ``... we make provision for INEC, we make provision for security, we make provision for even agents of other political parties so that they will not raise any objection to whatever we are able to get.
The governor, therefore, called on the people to refuse to be intimidated or provoked into any form of violence over the needless troop deployment, urging them «to remain calm and go about their normal businesses, trusting in the ability of our democratic institutions to address the existing political anxiety in Bayelsa State.»
«People change over 30 years,» said Mr. Roskoff, the president of a gay Democratic political club that has backed Mr. Cuomo for governor.
A Board of Trustees member, Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has proffered a political solution to the lingering leadership crisis afflicting the erstwhile ruling party.