Sentences with phrase «democratic values»

The subject of social class takes us as close as any other to the very core of democratic values.

They promote democratic values including active citizenship and inclusion.

We tend to focus a lot on the need to have the necessary institutions and a constitution based on democratic values and freedom, but this is not sufficient.

Yes, the issues of our time demand social democratic values - but if this is not a crisis of our politics then it does require profound reflection.

Instead schools must teach that there are shared liberal democratic values and virtues that seem essential for the system to flourish.

Those are deeply democratic values and we're proud of them.

However, giving religious beliefs too much weight in electoral decisions undermines the basic democratic values that have guided our nation for over two centuries.

We need a new governor with traditional Democratic values.

Second, Brazilian media have an awful record when it comes to defending democratic values, as the 1964 coup demonstrates.

Schools do not just cultivate democratic values; they are also the product of democratic pressures.

Both men heavily valued democratic values, and wanted to make modern design more palatable to the public, to bridge the widening gap between the middle - class and the cultural elite.

All of these resources engage people in critical thinking and weighing the importance of competing democratic values.

Those are deeply democratic values and we're proud of them.

They spoke to traditional Democratic values, about listening to people.

Now, at the conference, he wondered: Could the time be opportune, given that «courts have found their voice» in promoting democratic values in the age of Trump, resisting, for example, the ban on immigration from majority - Muslim nations?

«Steve Israel has demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in recruiting candidates, in attracting resources, and in communicating core Democratic values for middle class and working families.»

Quilliam agrees with the government that a clearer defence of democratic values such as freedom of speech, religious freedom and equal rights for all, along with a clearer sense of national identity, is central to tackling extremism and building a more united and cohesive country.

The now - iconic address challenged President Reagan and reaffirmed Democratic values by dramatically sharing the Cuomo family's struggle to assimilate in New York.

At the heart of When the State Kills is the notion that there is no way to square capital punishment with democratic values.

«Make no mistake — this vote by the Republican - controlled House works in favor of corruption and against core American democratic values.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs leveled harsh criticism against Democratic county executive candidate George Maragos, saying he had a «manipulative and duplicitous side,» and warning that his victory in a primary would put Democratic values «at risk.»

«For the last 100 years, our members and leaders have championed Democratic values and demonstrated a centuries - long tradition of service and dedication to our northeast Queens community.»

«We've got one candidate that is supporting Democratic values, that's supporting equal rights, that's supporting women's rights, and we have another candidate who is saying very hateful, hurtful things on a regular basis.

'' It is hoped that this kind of maturity exhibited before and during the conduct of the election will be sustained so that good democratic values would be further achieved at the grassroots,» he said.

Jessica Post of the DLCC said, «Our mission at the DLCC is to elect more Democrats in order to gain control of legislatures and advance Democratic values.

The Foundation aims at strengthening democratic values and increasing citizens» participation in decision making processes and thereby contributing to improved policies and practices that affects people's lives.

World Press Freedom Day is an excellent occasion to underscore the important role media play to protect and promote fundamental democratic values.

Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.

But they have a State Senator who takes money intended for health care and uses it to hire family members and cronies instead; who ignores tenants and sides with landlords; and who turns his back on Democratic values so he can cozy up to his rich Republican friends in the State Senate.»

«The House will agree that the BBC World Service performs an invaluable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world, and that the services it provides are a beacon to many in some of the poorest and most insecure countries in the world.

«The BBC World Service performs an invaluable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world,» Mr Hague said.

Besides, Governor Ambode urged Nigerians to keep alive the principles of June 12 by upholding democratic values and culture especially by participating in democratic processes such as voters» registration exercise, voting for candidates of choice during election and avoiding any act that could disrupt peaceful conduct of free, fair and credible election.

Neither of the stock responses that modernising social democracy has lost us our traditional base, or (sometimes) alternatively that we have not modernised enough, seem to me to recognise the scale or complexity of the challenge of building an effective politics of support for putting social democratic values into practice.

«This is about core Democratic values like women's equality, comprehensive campaign reform, minimum wage that actually would help somebody, about things like the Dream Act and GENDA.

Learning experiences in ECEC can also help children develop democratic values as well as social skills.

This weakens the US as the leader in democratic values around the globe.

Rakim Brooks is a Rhodes Scholar and the C. Edwin Baker Fellow for Democratic Values at Demos.

Look at the US, are Guantanamo, torture, and imprisonment without trial democratic values?

When people move to the middle class, so this theory goes, they become less susceptible to militant ideologies and more predisposed to embrace democratic values.

If certain democratic values are presupposed, there will be corresponding appropriate ceremonial forms to express them.

This dialogue should be regarded as the primary opportunity for teaching true democratic values, for in it the issues of what is really worthful and whether one shall live for satisfaction or for service become «existential» — personally decisive — rather than merely theoretical and speculative.

A Christian politician has said democratic values in Northern Ireland must be upheld, amid scrutiny by the Supreme Court of the abortion laws.

So while the President's Commission, like the Harvard Report, seeks coherence in a Western consensus, it finds it not in a great tradition, but in a pragmatist stance that assumes current democratic values to be a norm.

So democracy is doomed to fail more and more, if mankind won't decide to change direction and regain the real democratic values of personal responsibility, personal participation and mutual, reciprocal service.