Sentences with phrase «democratic practice in»

And of course, this is the democratic practice in Nigeria.

This is the type of democratic practice in most countries in the world, particularly, the United States of America, Germany, France etc..

The entire staff of your authoritative Ghana Daily newspaper wishes all Ghanaians all the very best in the quest to cement Ghana's democratic practice in Africa.

President Mahama also cited the peace and security Ghana currently enjoys as inspiration to other African countries like Guinea Bissau to aspire to better democratic practices in equal measure.

Not exact matches

July 5, 2016: He holds news conference to announce that «no reasonable prosecutor» would bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, over her email practices as secretary of state, but criticizes Clinton and her staff for being «extremely careless» in their handling of classified material.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

There's a standoff between business owners and Democratic state legislators in Maryland over a popular hiring practice: checking an employee's credit.

The Federal Communications Commission, in a report to for seven Democratic senators, said it had reviewed the cases, which involved wireless carriers exempting streaming video from counting against customers» monthly data limits, a practice known as zero rating.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

By using the democratic process in decision - making, the mental health task force practices principles of good mental health in its own operations.

If democracy is to have any relevance and influence in such a time, the people of the United States and other democratic nations must demonstrate their understanding and practice of democratic ideals in the field of race relations.

... From this perspective we can best understand Dewey's lifelong involvement in the theory and practice of education in a democratic society» (DD 52).

Other nations have in certain respects achieved a higher perfection of democratic aims and practices than have Americans.

Let me state them again: faith that peace is possible, provision for peaceful change from within the nations, international organization with the surrender of absolute national sovereignty, economic security for all men, faith in and understanding of and practice of the democratic way of life, and a unifying spiritual world community.

In short, effective teaching of democratic values requires the practice of democracy by those who teach and a democratic structure in the institutions of educatioIn short, effective teaching of democratic values requires the practice of democracy by those who teach and a democratic structure in the institutions of educatioin the institutions of education.

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.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

The «democratic» notion of the equality of all believers is a late product in the history of religions and, strictly speaking, rarely if ever carried out in practice.

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.

The second, which is a major presupposition of both secular and religious liberalism, is not only consistent with but essential to the maintenance of the democratic ideal, and is formally guaranteed in all democratic societies but often violated in practice.

As the ills of capitalism became apparent in the late 19th century and as various forms of socialism — Soviet, democratic, Chinese - developed in the 20th century, notable Christian theologians — Tillich, the early Reinhold Niebuhr, the early Brunner and, more recently, liberation theologians - have advocated the wedding of Christian ethics with socialist economic practice.

Greek political practice, though never fully democratic, was in advance of the insights of Plato and Aristotle as to human equality.

One of the points of DAMSELS is that the social dancing practices of Society that made the deb balls possible, and which dance-wise received a brief revival / reworking during the classic disco era — i.e., musically and socially reworked in a more democratic and improvised manner — are now almost completely dead.

The point is not to try an impossible divorce of corporation from politics, but to assure that its politics are consistent with democratic practices...» He goes on to suggest that there is currently a «crisis of membership» in the corporation.

Some would argue that current trends toward «sustainable development» are becoming so prominent and pervasive within both government and corporate practices as to suggest that the global market economy, at least in democratic, industrialized countries, itself could be in the midst of a pervasive paradigm shift.

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

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

National integrity and independence in a democratic world community are contingent upon acceptance and practice of national responsibility for the pursuit of justice and the relinquishment of the principle that the nation is a law unto itself.

It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation [of religion] to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.

In that sense, these pages reflect a reciprocal testing — a testing of democratic theory and practice by Catholic thought, and a testing of Catholic thought by democratic theory and practice.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

While we appreciate the impulse to protect agricultural enterprises from the objections that may sometimes arise when «tree changers» or inhabitants of non-farming lifestyle blocks lack sufficient knowledge of normal or innovative farming practices, it is our view that limiting the «right to object» in a democratic society is deeply problematic.

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has stated not every appointee in the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) under former President John Mahama engaged in corrupt practices.

From the late 1990s, inspired by the Maoist practice of «self - criticism,» Ren instituted regular «democratic meetings» in which employees and managers were encouraged to publicly criticise their own performance and that of the company.

But I have no doubt that the Blue Labour agenda would not be possible in practice without radical, democratic, campaigning feminism and that its thinking would have been deeply impoverished without a sustained engagement with feminist thinking.

While nominally, everyone has a chance to input into the decisons via the vote, in practice almost no «democratic» system lets everyone vote.

The upshot is that impersonal dynamics are prioritised over experiential ones and progressive democratic agency is construed through free - floating notions of flux and contestation, rather than as an embodied practice in the world.

Given this, I think that political theorists, especially radical democratic theorists, need to come up with less empty and, in some cases, less «exotic» theories of practice as say, ceaseless contestation.

In 1981, Race joined the firm of Seward and Kissel where he practiced until 1994 (the year Pataki was elected governor, defeating Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo).

The bill comes from Murphy as the practice of campaign transfers has come under investigation from the 2014 Senate campaign, in which donors funneled millions through Democratic county committees, which ultimately backed Democratic Senate candidates.

Some have started consulting practices, others are off developing new technologies or working in issues in their home towns, but many have gone right back to work for Democratic campaigns, labor unions, environmental groups, community action networks and the like.

He is also currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster teaching innovations in democratic practice, as well as a research assistant at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham researching accountability in local governance.

He told Myjoyonline.com the court's decision was only in furtherance of Ghana's democratic practice and enhances the nation's democratic credentials.

Because of the kinds of things you talked about under the name of Fabianism, instead of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms of civic or popular review, we've gone the route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance of accountability, and actually operate in a very different way from other more politicised forms of accountability.

Shirley started her political life on the left as a teenager, in the Labour Party, and the egalitarian, social democratic ideas she espoused — and put into practice as Education Secretary in the late 1970s - remain essentially intact.

The real problem is that much «Wall of Separation» rhetoric implies there is a clear, impregnable line between church and state activity when in practice over the twentieth century the principle of church - state separation has become one of lively democratic contestation and a degree of flexibility, allowing Catholics and other religious organizations to enter the public sphere and participate on the same terms as any other group.

While a number of constitutional issues clearly require attention, much of what currently ails UK (in particular, English) politics are not specifically constitutional in nature, but are rather a symptom of how we practice democratic politics.

Leonard Roberto, a Republican challenging Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins in the 27th CD, reportedly called homosexuality a practice condemned by God during a town hall meeting on Tuesday night.

Elections caught with fraud, corruption and violence can destabilise a country, allowing citizens to loose fate in the process of democratic practice.