Sentences with phrase «in a democracy where»

They will not be with you in Heaven of course, for Heaven is a Gated Community that is off - limits to middle - class losers, but they are useful in a democracy where the majority rules instead of Your Holy Upper Class.

A secondary, and perhaps more soluble challenge is the myopic structure of political systems, particularly in democracies where only the current set of voters has a real say.

Following Nixon's entry in the race last month, Cuomo's campaign released a statement saying «It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office.»

A spokesman who said he was not authorized by the Cuomo campaign to give his name responded to Nixon's challenge by saying, «It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office.

«It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office,» Cuomo campaign spokesman Austin Shafran said in an email.

Cuomo's re-election campaign responded to Nixon's announcement in a statement, saying, «It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office.

A Cuomo campaign spokesman called it «great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office» while citing a number of Cuomo's progressive achievements.

Compass is a pluralist not a Stalinist organisation, and we live in a democracy where individuals are entitled to make their own personal views known.

«It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office,» the statement reads.

The Cuomo campaign did not respond on the record to Nixon's announcement, but instead released a written statement: «It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office.»

We live in a democracy where the rule of law prevails; I am a lawyer and they should have given me a chance to refute the allegations against me in front of an independent panel.

A Cuomo campaign spokesman on Monday called it «great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office» while citing a number of Cuomo's progressive achievements.

We are particularly concerned about the fact we live in a democracy where the level of information of our fellow citizens has impact on the choices they make and the actions they take.

It seems to happen more in democracies where varieties of viewpoints are expected and even welcomed.

Not exact matches

To try to delegitimize the press whenever it criticizes the president, it's really the reflex of an autocrat, of a tin - pot dictator in some banana republic, and not worthy of a democracy like the United States, where the president serves at our pleasure and can be criticized just like anyone else.

Take a look at Poland, where the hard - right Law and Justice party became the first party to govern alone since the restoration of democracy when it swept to a resounding victory in October's parliamentary elections.

We're living in an age where we will choose between democracy and global totalitarianism.

It can not be easy for Facebook employees to accept that their platform has been accused of undermining democracy in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany, but that is where we are.

Sadly, where our beloved philosopher becomes derailed is in his support of John «Let's take Democracy to the Middle East» McCain.

in a secular democracy, open to all creeds where freedom reins.

Compare the situation in Israel where a candidate who once said that the Golden Dome would explode is disqualified by court from running and the situation in the pillar of Islamic democracy Iran where the President saying that the «regime in Jerusalem» would «vanish from the page of times» is re-elected and cheered by his supporters in Iran and other countries.

In a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authoritIn a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authoritin a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authority.

In a society, however, in which the individual official can not hide behind an anonymous institution, but where one can appeal to an individual conscience, to a person who is ultimately responsible, where one can still distinguish between cause and effect, basic reason and mere symptom, in such a society the true purpose of democracy is fulfilleIn a society, however, in which the individual official can not hide behind an anonymous institution, but where one can appeal to an individual conscience, to a person who is ultimately responsible, where one can still distinguish between cause and effect, basic reason and mere symptom, in such a society the true purpose of democracy is fulfillein which the individual official can not hide behind an anonymous institution, but where one can appeal to an individual conscience, to a person who is ultimately responsible, where one can still distinguish between cause and effect, basic reason and mere symptom, in such a society the true purpose of democracy is fulfillein such a society the true purpose of democracy is fulfilled.

On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

That's where «democracy» comes in.

The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.

It is a great error to conceive of democracy in Utilitarian terms, as that form of government that affords «the greatest good to the greatest number,» where «good» means pleasure, happiness, and the fulfilling of desires.

Such a comprehensive way is also seen in the Confucian tradition where Deweyan social democracy resonates so well.

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??

«The decision to reinstate Jewish nationhood where it might function as a means of securing the maximum welfare and collaboration of all who came within its purview, in keeping with the highest ideals of democracy (FAJ 361).

The British did not do a particularly brilliant job of liquidating their empire and there were several clear cases where British imperialists defied their nation's commitment to democracy in order to hang on to foreign privileges.

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

Where democracy prevails, men are never perfect, but their worst impulses are held in check both by the inner discipline of responsible citizenship and by external coercion upon the irresponsible.

Muslims need to teach kids in schools love humanity and respect others, not if you are non muslim you are devil, you don't have to repeat it on tv or radio channels which religion is peacful, people are not dum they know all religions are for peace, but where is the peace in practically, showing hatred or having thoughts of islamization the world, stop evil thinking of conversion of anyone to islam that is not peaceful religion or thoughts.help the poor and needy, give equal respect to male and female respect democracy and more important develop tolerence.intolerence is the basic evil of human race.

If a nation is committed to a democratic way of resolving issues that effects communities of people within its borders, the same standard has to be applied in the international level to give credibility to the system of democracy which the USA and the European Union are eager to promote in countries where democracy is not in place.

In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raquIn a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raquin Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.&raquin the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.»

It is seen, in the third place, in the Western democracies, where we still pay lip service to the moral and religious principles of Christendom but have actually lost a great part of this heritage.

Today that does not apply in most democracies, unfortunately where religions such as the Muslim and the Hindu reign that picture is a reality.

It is clear that the Indian situation calls for deeper mutual understanding among religions and for the development of a consensus about parameters of religious practices in a democracy, where there is co-existence of non-missionary and missionary types of religions.

Those who believe in a genuine democracy of the spirit will not be afraid of or adverse to contests from which no «competition» will be excluded and where the true will prevail.

As comprehensive as Brogan's account may be, however, his book is at its weakest where the convergence of the historical narrative ought to illuminate the great work of Tocque - ville's that authorizes a grand biography of this sort in the first place» Democracy in America.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Furthermore, he says, people will, under the continuing impact of socialization, demand more democracy in the workplace, increasing participation in both the scientific and the human dynamics side of management, further decolonization where it obtains, and less destructive disruption of the bio-physical universe that threatens all» the least advantaged most directly and immediately.

In a general fashion the dominant classes are trying to avoid a situation where the people take part in debates so that they can manipulate opinion (thus maintaining the appearance of democracy), or by planning outright violencIn a general fashion the dominant classes are trying to avoid a situation where the people take part in debates so that they can manipulate opinion (thus maintaining the appearance of democracy), or by planning outright violencin debates so that they can manipulate opinion (thus maintaining the appearance of democracy), or by planning outright violence.

Early in the twentieth century, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the states the «laboratories of democracy,» where novel ideas and laws could be tried without risk to the rest of the country.

Where I part company with Lauritzen is where he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionWhere I part company with Lauritzen is where he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionwhere he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionable.

In Berlin 200,000 had gathered before the Brandenburg Gate to reflect at the place where the wall between democracy and communism had stood.

An excellent, free education where learning is meaningful — with arts, play, engaging projects, and the chance to learn citizenship skills so that children can one day participate — actively and consciously — in this increasingly fragile democracy.

«Somewhere in my soul,» Stephen Lewis says, «I cherish the possibility of a return to a vibrant democracy, where...