Sentences with phrase «democratic process works»

«If we can not get relief in the process, we will go to the courts, and we will go to the final, final round, to ensure every vote... is counted, so that tomorrow, when the senior citizen or the young voter goes to the polls, they can be reassured that this democratic process works for them and not that it is rigged, or perhaps that there are backroom strategists put in place to prevent them from voting or to skew the results.»

Sheehan later told reporters the democratic process worked well this election cycle.

Not exact matches

«It will hopefully stave off the current market failure and the uprooting of democratic processes... Though nobody can predict the future, it will require hard work.»

Yes, we can be politically engaged and work to enact change through the democratic process.

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??

We must continue for now to work relentlessly within the democratic process.

Feeding the Body Politic (10 min) Through struggles and controversy, Berkeley, California parents put the democratic process to work, one neighbor, one politician, one piece of legislation at a time.

He argues vehemently that if there was any usefulness to the election, it was that it provided an insight into how democratic process could be subverted by an organized electoral pirates who worked to enthrone a regime of anomie in pursuit of a Hobbesian fiefdom that Ekiti has become.

While oversight and accountability genuinely help the democratic process, representing the proper style of character and the proper valence of emotion mattered more in this referendum than facts about the economic prospects of the UK and of the working class.

Full disclosure: I live in this District and have been inundated with mailers and cold calls for the Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou, who bucked the system when she dropped out of contention for the Democratic nod claiming unfairness in the selection process (what does she mean?!! It's perfectly fair that Silver choose his own successor!

The next step means working hand in hand with models like the Citizens» Assembly — as allies in the push for more a more democratic Brexit process.

Often people do not want to realize that each individual is part of the democratic process and he must cooperate because the model can work.

But it is the process we currently have, and the one in which we need to work to ensure that we elect the best candidates (while we also work to change election laws to make them more small - d democratic).

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

The Working Families Party, meanwhile, sought to hit the accelerator, indicating in a statement of their own that they wanted an expedited process toward Democratic unity in the Senate.

I'm grateful to Vote Better NY for bringing attention to an issue that goes to heart of our democratic system, and look forward to working with my colleagues to create a better, fairer, and more open electoral process for all New Yorkers.»

For example, one missing variable that could account for much of the variation is that in America there's a strong history of public opinion (albiet not perfectly) translating into policy through democratic process, while in Egypt, average people have had incredible difficulty getting public opinion into policy and a protest was one of the tools that seemed to work.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Chris Collins, is working its way through the committee process and has bipartisan support, including support from local Democratic officials Rep. Brian Higgins and County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

The League of Women Voters is hosting a debate for the four candidates: Republican Lester Chang, Green Party candidate Dennis Levy, Democrat Alice Cancel and Working Family Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou, who withdrew from the Democratic party vote, calling the process «flawed» and instead chose to run as a Working Party Family candidate.

The following link reveals how CPV works to try to buy town officials, divide communities and walk all over the democratic process.

Yuh - Line Niou, the chief of staff for Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim, withdrew from the Democratic Party candidate race after calling the process flawed, and instead ran in the special election as the Working Families Party candidate.

Tkaczyk however used a process known as Opportunity to Ballot to maneuver her way on to the Green line in addition to the Democratic and Working Families lines.

So we're going to hope that the Democratic process can work itself out and tenants aren't going to give up.

«I really have not supported term limits because I think the democratic process should work to throw out of office people who have exhausted the patience and also who are failing to do their job as well as they should be.»

Keith Wright, the Manhattan Democratic Party leader, will once again be under scrutiny as he decides how the process will work this time.

While setting up a Democratic county party website is a good first step, «it is crucial to demystify the process more; they could use some testing to see how they are able to explain how this very old school county committee process works,» said Moore.

Prof. Yakubu, who led the ECONEC Needs Assessment and Solidarity Missions to Sierra Leone and Liberia last July, noted that the «integrity and moral force,» which the former president and his colleagues brought to electoral processes, facilitated the work of election management bodies on the continent, noting that all the 15 ECOWAS countries are now running democratic governments.

One reporter asked the governor if Bharara should be considered a hero, or a champion of the democratic process, for his work, including the convictions of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran said the conference believes «there should be a timely process to ensure every vote is fully and fairly counted, voters aren't disenfranchised and New Yorkers have a government ready to work for them in the New Year.»

Conservatives will continue to work with other political parties and the media to build a consensus in favour of saving this important and valued part of Britain's democratic process.»

This is the way in which the Democratic process is supposed to work, and I truly appreciate her letting us know that she appreciates our victory tonight and she conceded the election.

The policy has to work itself through elections and all the rest of the law making process that we have, and even if you are a big, staunch believer in the values of representative democratic government the way we are, the fact is that it is still not always pretty or efficient or as effective as everybody would like.

In a statement today to ScienceInsider, Smith said: «I look forward to continued discussions with my Democratic colleagues as we work through the legislative process to reauthorize science agencies under this Committee's jurisdiction.»

It serves the community of educators who are working for democratic process, peace, and justice.

Gauge the state of the nation from its most democratic entertainment; for his part, Woo — struggling to translate the heroic bloodshed of his HK work for western audiences and revealing himself in the process to be a starfucker with questionable taste in Hollywood stars (Christian Slater?

In spite of the varying geographic, cultural, and socio - historic backgrounds of these six case studies — not to mention the diverging trajectories — their current political regimes bear many important similarities in regards to their interpretation of both the democratic process and civil liberties, namely that they exist and are tolerated to the extent that they work to the incumbent leadership's advantage.

In the years that followed, it was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim Constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

Develop the ability to work as a team through mutual support, cooperation and democratic processes.

Educators should work in earnest to help students develop the skills and dispositions essential to building this trust in one another, in our institutions, and in the democratic process and to repair the damage caused by this campaign.

They should also help students understand that democratic politics, imperfect as they are, work best when people engage with the process, and not when they disengage.

To enhance academic learning as the children worked on their school - wide rules, we decided to guide them through the same sort of democratic process that resulted in the creation of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

«In many classrooms the democratic process is considered simply a set of procedures rather than an on - going way of working together.»

Since becoming an independent non-profit, SRI has worked to put in place multiple processes and policies to create an inclusive and democratic organization.

He said he wants to give the democratic process a chance to work, and only 105 of his 16,000 students have opted out this year.

It serves the community of educators who are working for democratic process, peace, and justice.

For Conner, the process of making the print became the work of art itself, exploring the tension between the democratic act of making multiple copies and the notion of the «limited edition» designed to create value through scarcity and authenticity.

Humanism and Technology, The Human Figure in Industrial Society, 600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, December 16, 1994 — January 14, 1995 (Catalogue) Prints and Process, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, October 1994 Democratic Vistas: 150 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York, September 24 — November 13, 1994 (Catalogue) Master Prints from the Collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 9 — October 19, 1994 Visible Means of Support, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, June — November 1994 Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan, June 9 — July 30, 1994 A Floor in a Building in Brooklyn, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, June 9 — July 30, 1994 (Curated by Chuck Close) The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties, Selections from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, June 6 — October 9, 1994 From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 29 — November 27, 1994 (Catalogue) Facing the Past: Nineteenth — Century Portrait from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Confronting the Present, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, May 27 — June 24, 1994 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York, May 14 — June 13, 1994 30 YEARS ---- Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964 — 1994, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 15 — September 17, 1994 (Catalogue) Face - Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 9 — October 30, 1994.

In a 1989 commentary for the New York Times, she wrote that, while «censorship and government interference in the directions and standards of art are dangerous and not part of the democratic process», she worked against the delivery of grants to controversial artists such as Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, concerned that the NEA was supporting work «of increasingly dubious quality.

Conservatives dislike elites, and together with the elites of the fossil fuel industry, they have defined the scientists as out of control elites who need to be brought under control of the people and their work subject to the democratic process.

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