Sentences with phrase «do in a democracy»

That's what citizens do in a democracy — we propose, we give reasons, we vote.

I sometimes despair that the only way to get things done in our democracy any more is thru bumper stickers, lapel pins, and sound bites.

«That's what we do in a democracy.»

You know, how they do it in a democracy.

«Both Republican and Democrats should be able to agree that allowing everyone to vote is the most basic thing we ought to do in a democracy.»

That's the way it is supposed to get done in a democracy (no matter how rarely this actually turns out to be the case).

Not exact matches

We will continue working with the government to understand the full extent of Russian interference, and we will do our part not only to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, but also to give everyone a voice and to be a force for good in democracy everywhere.

Darius Rejali, a professor at Reed College, did just that in his masterpiece Torture and Democracy (see here and here).

«Mr Osborne is clearly being badly advised and we can only hope that others help him to understand the damage he is doing to the reputation of parliament and democracy at a critical time in the country's history.

(But one question: Why would he target the muffins to people interested in baking when it is the people who don't bake who need access to muffins most of all????) While muffins are a lot like Facebook in that even though they are bad for me and I consume them anyway because I enjoy the little sugar rush they provide to my system, the risks around our muffin data being scraped by bad actors and upending democracy are basically nil.

We don't allow voters in a democracy to sell their votes, for example.

Musk said Hillary Clinton's economic and environmental policies are the «right ones,» but he added, «I don't think is our finest hour in democracy in general.»

Trump does not believe in liberal democracy and his voters do not believe in liberal democracy, and that makes the liberal press part of the opposition.

In so doing, they founded a constitutional democracy, among the most enduring history has known.

«We should be ready, if we don't have 100 percent participation and if Europe doesn't want to give us more money,» Christos Staikouras, a member of the Greek Parliament from the center - right New Democracy opposition party and its economic spokesman, said in an interview.

«The closing of Cambridge Analytica doesn't stop the problem that voters and consumers face in terms of a growing loss of privacy and a gross misuse of their data,» said Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy.»

As, apparently, does Facebook, in which Thiel was the first outside investor: the company did not respond to a request for comment, on either the conference or his stance on women and democracy.

My mentor Michael Dooley once observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working conditions and benefits: «As to the majority of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser of light bulbs.»

To «promote democracy» is what America claims to do in overthrowing elected governments and turning planning over to unelected bankers and money managers.

You can't have democracy when debts grow beyond the ability to pay and the IMF imposes austerity, like it used to do in third world countries.

Italy Did Not Just Send in The Clowns Why The Political Stalemate Is a Warning to Democracies Everywhere

Their type of viewpoints do nothing to keep Canada's Democracy in order and has probably caused issues with Democracy in Canada.

«When Argentina regained democracy in 1983 we had a government that from an economic standpoint did not do that well.

Democracy is best done in the full light of day, not in darkness.

While this in itself would be a major victory for democracy, it is crucial that the government does not stop there, but rather works to fundamentally reform Alberta's political culture in the public interest.»

In a democracy government is supposed to serve us, and do nothing other, ever.

McKinsey says specifically that multi-year sustained rise in the savings rate, what they term austerity, is needed to solve the problem, and of course, as we all know, in modern democracies, that option doesn't seem to exist.

These tests are going on in different democracies around the world because we need to do better than we are doing on the fairness front — both in terms of reality and perception.

Russia interfered in 2016, they're going to interfere in 2018, and we have got to do everything we can to make sure that they do not undermine American democracy.

Those who think Congress can easily reclaim war powers that presidents have usurped since then don't see how powerful Polk's method generally proves in a democracy.

In a democracy everyone has a right to their own beliefs — but, evidently according to gay rights groups you don't.

However, by refusing to submit to «the democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»

To determine what that system would look like, we need only look at what the overwhelming majority of other industrialized western democracies have done in order to, according to the 2000 World Health Organization Report, make their systems far superior to our own in terms of overall quality.

For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.

They certainly didn't for Catholics, many of whom went to their own schools, not least because the government schools were created in part to deal with the perceived threat to democracy from waves of Catholic immigrants.

That's not because he called attention to anything in DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA that we postmodern conservatives didn't already know abouin DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA that we postmodern conservatives didn't already know abouIN AMERICA that we postmodern conservatives didn't already know about.

There is one main reason why: America is very powerful, and it is hard to imagine that the American public will elect a president who does not genuinely believe in the humanizing potential of democracy.

If one doesn't believe it, however, he is in conflict not merely with the argument of To Empower People but with the assumption of self - governance upon which the American experiment in republican democracy is constituted.

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the crudemocracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruDemocracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.

To the extent that full - blooded socialism is returning to compete with liberal democracy for the allegiance of modern persons, it does so in populist garb — and in the future, its....

The biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it does in every major democracy.

(for example: most of them believe in the American representative democracy system, a form of government not found anywhere in the Bible) Do YOU read other books than the Bible?

``... If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril.

He does not deny that, notably in America, religion has been a friend of democracy.

However, his apology does little to address the reasons why his comment was so damaging (besides his insistence that he wasn't trying to compare football players to inmates), and why these protests remain an important function of democracy in America.

Religious organizations were welcome as long as they were malleable: as long as their leaders didn't need to profess anything in particular; as long as they could be governed by sheer democracy and adjust to popular mores or trends; as long as they didn't prioritize theological stability.»

Then you will understand dear friends, Islam does not espouse the fundamental principles of democracy, in which this country prospers.

But in this democracy of ours, pseudo or real, the arrangements for the act of possession and the essential steps of pious subterfuge, false witness, indictment without defense, and finally violence and murder - all this is, in a manner of speaking, done in our name and sealed with our seal.

This alone is an element of freedom and democracy in the fundamental essence of the Church which does not, indeed, render the question of democracy in the Church superfluous, but which makes it much less vital, as is also the case in other free associations.

And in a democracy our votes do matter.