Sentences with phrase «democratic standards»

What makes this example also imperfect is that I do not know whether it was adopted by any reasonable democratic standard.

The result is a government that does not meet an important democratic standard.

Aides say Cuomo will try to distinguish himself in Philadelphia from other Democratic standard bearers like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, while trying finally to step out from his father's shadow.

:) As for Democratic standards — no that's not the baseline — little boys are OK too.

Poland's Western allies have expressed concerns over government plans to reform the constitutional court, saying it contravened democratic standards.

As a candidate nation for EU membership, Turkey «needs to aspire to the highest possible democratic standard and practices, including on the freedom of the media,» said EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic.

The EU unveiled plans Wednesday for a bigger 1.279 - trillion euro budget for the seven years after Brexit featuring a controversial move to cut funding for countries that fail to respect democratic standards.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

According to the group, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should make its investigation comprehensive and release in full its findings while political parties should take responsibility for their members, conduct investigations, and discipline those who have behaved outside the democratic standards to which they have committed.

«In light of the conduct before the election and serious allegations around the poll we also call on the political parties to take responsibility for their members, conduct investigations, and discipline those who have behaved outside the democratic standards to which they have committed.

As for the impact of the gubernatorial race, Democratic standard - nearer Andrew Cuomo is leading his GOP / Conservative challenger, Carl Paladino, 48 - 49.

At this point, there is no clear indication who would be the Democratic standard - bearer in a recall election.

The WFP is quickly becoming more of a headache than a help for candidates in a year where labor has few public defenders and the Democratic standard - bearer, Andrew Cuomo, has, for now, kicked the under - investigation minor party to the side.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo's camp is developing an urban agenda amid discussions by some black and Latino political leaders that the Democratic standard - bearer isn't paying enough attention to their communities.

The election by hereditary peers of the ninth Duke of Wellington (Report, 16 September) to the House of Lords by 21 votes over the Marquess of Abergavenny and the Earl of Harrowby (six votes each) is incomprehensible by any democratic standard.

State Sen. Ray Meier will be the Republican nominee, while Oneida County District Attorney Michael Arcuri will be the Democratic standard - bearer.

While it's not uncommon for the White House to go after the president's harshest Republican critics, taking on any Democratic standard bearer — let alone the powerhouse Schumer — is rare.

Bowin, for example, is one of many self - described «Bernie or Bust» supporters who say they will not support Clinton if she emerges as the Democratic standard - bearer.

Whoever emerges from the scrum holding the party's nomination will become the Democratic standard - bearer in a competitive congressional district where the party's electoral efforts have been thwarted time and again.

In no case, though, have the Republicans — or any other party for that matter — put forth candidate who is not the Democratic standard bearer.

Informal polling showed that Westin, a clinical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, was running second to attorney Lizzie Fletcher in a crowded race to choose a Democratic standard bearer for the seventh congressional district in Texas.

As an institution known to lack transparent and democratic standards, a World Bank presence in the climate meetings will undermine trust and dismantle cooperation.

Sweden got france and the nether lands in 1984, given by italy in 1985, but it was meanwhile until 1987 that the democratic standard grabbed animation outside europe.

Given the appalling movement toward the far right by Republicans in power, their grim determination to give the bulk of tax cuts to the rich, a vulgarization that has led neo-Nazis to consider the President their man, it's good to know decent people are resisting the coarsening of our democratic standards.