Sentences with phrase «for democratic purposes»

This is is a collaborative project launched in 2011 involving Regards Citizens, an association that promotes the liberation and reuse of parliamentary data for democratic purposes, and two research teams at Sciences Po Paris, the Centre for European Studies and médialab.

Not exact matches

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

The exercise of rights and freedoms is limited «for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and general welfare in a democratic society.»

This would mean that democratic politics has nothing to argue about except its own constitution, and it would be senseless to constitute a discourse for the sole purpose of constituting it.

Bloom points out, for example, that Oliver Wendell Holmes gave up searching for a principle «to determine which speech or conduct is not tolerable in a democratic society and invoked instead an imprecise and practically meaningless standard — clear and present danger — which to all intents and purposes makes the preservation of public order the only common good» (p. 28).

These include: ● tighter controls on follow - on milks ● no idealising text or pictures ● stricter controls on foods claiming to be «for special medical purposes» (FSMPs) ● increased transparency, ● the use of the Precautionary Principle ● more democratic oversight ● MEP reviews of new ingredient There was a Member States Working Group on 2nd Feb to discuss the Commissions proposals for the new Resolutions.

It appears to me that for budget purposes, the «reconciliation» process could be used by Senate leadership to pass legislation providing funding, circumventing the anticipated Democratic filibuster to block such legislation.

For our purposes we just note that democratic institutions might have huge impacts in unintended ways.

Later yesterday afternoon, the Westchester County Democratic Committee sent out an email informing recipients that a «mini convention» would be called by Chairman Reggie Lafayette for the purpose of selecting a candidate to run for the yet - to - be-called special election to fill the seat of departing state Sen. George Latimer, who will become Westchester County executive on Jan. 1.

Obviously, this is a single - purpose website, rather than an attack - on - all - fronts platform like the Texas Democratic Party's new MeetRickPerry.com, but it still has some room for growth.

FWIW, for surveillance and other legal purpose Germany does in fact define «extremist» as «anti-democratic» (or «threatening the liberal - democratic order»).

Bronx Democratic Party Chairman Carl Heastie, one of the few members of the Assembly who turn up in the Commission documents, attracted attention for the approximately $ 25,000 in unitemized credit card expenditures his campaign made over the years the investigators analyzed, most of which without any explanation of their purpose.

Leaders of the State Senate's Republican and Independent Democratic Conference also filed legal contracts for the same purpose totaling $ 300,000.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's team was Brooklyn - infused for this purpose and included a paid operative, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's chief of staff John Paul Lupo, and an operative with the controversial Advance Group, Jonathan Yedin, who has been working in Brooklyn Democratic Party politics for more than a decade and belongs to Mr. Seddio's political club.

Senate Democratic official added: «There are no plans to print this at the taxpayers expense because it won't allow us to use public funds for political purposes to retake the Senate, which is what most of what our public funds are used for.»

The Delaware County Democratic Committee exists for the purpose of getting Democrats elected to office.

In his travels, Watch admits that he identified Democratic voters «whom deep down inside are really sympathetic with Republicans, but ally with Democrats for the sole purpose of getting anything done in government.»

We support positive measures to strengthen and improve the relationship between the Party and the unions, for example by encouraging the greater democratic engagement of ordinary trade unionists in party structures and by developing the understanding of the nature and purpose of trade unionism among party members.

(b) Each Democratic organization shall have a written constitution which provides among other things (i) that the annual election of officers be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization; (ii) that membership in the organization be open to all enrolled Democrats residing in the political subdivision for which the organization is to function; (iii) that there be periodic financial reports to the membership, with at least one report each year and that the receipts and expenditures of the organization may be reviewed upon the written request of any member of the organization at a reasonable time and place fixed by an officer of the organization designated for that purpose; (iv) that endorsement of all candidates for party position or public office in the party primary be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization.

«The Government has fragmented the school system, removed local democratic accountability and has conferred excessive school autonomy onto a school governance system that it is widely accepted is not fit for purpose.

Voters in the Third Judicial District may be in for something virtually unprecedented this year: An honest - to - goodness fight for the right to represent the Democratic Party on November's ballot — and, for all intents and purposes, a seat on the prestigious Supreme Court bench.

You should know that there are people playing Lieutenant Columbo games in the New York State Senate, and in the process, they have turned the Senate Democratic Conference into a mere rubber stamp for the political gains and purposes of others.

Democratic District Attorney Madeline Singas has asked Donna Myrill, the Republican - appointed county investigations commissioner, to examine whether the postcard violates the state constitution and county code of ethics, which forbid the use of government resources for political purposes.

Spitzer's going to need more than that and the explosion of free media coverage to win the Democratic nomination — and for all intents and purposes, the race — between now and Sept. 10.

For the purpose of this page, comparisons were made between Democratic and Republican enrollment even thought there are other parties listed and non-affiliated enrollment.

And in New Jersey, where local property taxes are a much bigger concern than state income taxes, incoming Democratic governor Phil Murphy and two Democratic congressmen have floated a proposal to create a charitable foundation similar to the one being contemplated for California and New York, but with property - tax purposes targeted and a new state tax credit created against property - tax liability.

He had already, for all intents and purposes, been disowned by Erie County Democratic leadership.

While there's been some focus this morning on the fact that Andrew Cuomo defied a lingering expectation that he'd pick an African - American or Hispanic as his LG, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf suggested that the geographic and religious balance, over racial and gender balance, are what the likely next governor needed for election purposes.

May had emailed dozens of NU managers, asking them to donate to the Democratic Party's «federal account» for the specific purpose of supporting Malloy's re-election.

Every two years the Marbletown Democratic Committee convenes a Caucus for the purpose of selecting our nominees for Town office in the general election.

Campaign appearances by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III, who refused to share the ticket with them and shifted instead to the «Solidarity Party» formed for the purpose, were interrupted by a trio of singers that included Fairchild and Chicago Mayoral candidate Sheila Jones.

His principal purpose was to distinguish the extraordinary measures necessary for dismantling Jim Crow in the 1960s and 1970s from the «ordinary principles of our law, of our democratic heritage, and of our educational tradition.»

The purpose is to train students for jobs, not educate them to be full, thoughtful citizens in our democratic republic.»

The reduction of resources at the federal, state / provincial, and local levels and the potential of public funding for private schools underscores the importance of reconnecting democratic purposes to the functions of schools.

Examples of the instructional and democratic citizenship benefits of developing these economic reasoning skills in students include: sharpening critical thinking and critical literacy skills; entertaining multiple perspectives; better understanding current events; laying the groundwork for authentic discussions and civil debates; casting informed votes; and making students» thinking explicit for assessment purposes.

For the purposes of this paper, the data are analyzed specifically to examine his incorporation of educational technology in his multicultural democratic education pedagogy.

The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purposes.

In his video work «The Enclave», originally presented in the Irish Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, Mosse (Kilkenny, 1980) narrates the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under a quite unusual point of view by using a special military surveillance 16 mm film which alters the natural colors, turning the green of foliage into bright pink for anti-camouflage purposes.

At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.

If it were part of the government budget, they would reflect a democratic process in which Canadians, through their elected representatives, debated about how much would be collected, from whom, how the money would be distributed, and for what purposes.

Even in a free and democratic society we understand that there are reasonable restrictions on expression, even in places where expression and inquiry are used for the purposes of learning.

A little more on the Marion Nestle article: here's what the Democratic National Committee is distributing, on Republican / food industry's attempts to make pizza (apparently not just ketchup) a vegetable for school lunch purposes:

In Sumption's view, parliamentary scrutiny is perfectly adequate for the purpose of protecting the public interest in the area of policy making, and it is the only way of doing so that contains any democratic legitimacy.

For present purposes, Art 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) provides that people should not be deprived of their possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by Art 8 of the Convention that there should be no interference with the right to enjoy a private family life and home except as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the countFor present purposes, Art 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) provides that people should not be deprived of their possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by Art 8 of the Convention that there should be no interference with the right to enjoy a private family life and home except as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the countfor by law and by Art 8 of the Convention that there should be no interference with the right to enjoy a private family life and home except as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the country.

Regardless of whether the trespass notice was issued for the purpose of protecting employees from the appellant, or preventing the appellant from conveying his message, the effect was to impair his participation in each of the grounds articulated in Irwin Toy, namely enabling democratic discourse, facilitating truth seeking, and contributing to personal fulfilment.

When the purpose for using these techniques is related to the democratic process, the case for a high standard of transparency is very strong,» said Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, in an update on the ICO's website.

Furthermore, Mangas Martín recalls that if respect for democracy and human rights were a «democratic basis for cooperation», a further step could be taken to transform it into a provision essential to the accomplishment of the object or purpose of the treaty that could open a way to invoke art. 60 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that is, to invoke the violation of human rights and democracy as a cause of termination or suspension of the treaty.

The paper culminates in a set of recommendations that are intended to re-center the purposes of public education for low - income students, students of color, and local communities in developing more equitable, democratic school turnarounds.

Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society.