Sentences with phrase «in a democratic country with»

«Because we live in a democratic country with a long and proud history of openness and freedom, we wish to personally support the important research on stem cells in the face of the political restrictions placed on it by both the federal and state governments,» the Alperns say.

Together, they challenge the notion that digital and more traditional surveillance operations are harmless intrusions and that these tools are being used in democratic countries with adequate restraint and oversight.

Not exact matches

A December survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, found that McConnell is the least popular senator in the country, with his approval rating underwater by 30 points.

«The paper essentially argues that the Internet has not diffused throughout the world in a random way, but rather that there are systematic patterns to its spread,» explains Guillà © n. «We found that those systematic patterns don't have to do with privatization or competition in the telecommunications sector, but they do have to do with entrepreneurship and with how democratic a country is.

Ties between the two countries have been strained over U.S. support for the Syrian Democratic forces, the mainly Kurdish - led militias fighting Islamic State in northern Syria with the help of U.S. forces.

Watchdog group Freedom House was similarly critical in its most recent analysis, giving the country an overall democracy score of 6.61 out of 7, with 7 being «least democratic.»

The biggest potential for growth in the iron - ore industry lies with countries in the «Next 20», which refers to the 20 growing non-Bric bloc developing economies, including Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Philippines, and several sub-Saharan African nations, including Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and South Africa.

The bottom line is that after the prolonged tax giveaway exacerbates the federal budget deficit — along with the balance - of - payments deficit — we can expect the next Republican or Democratic administration to step in and «save» the country from economic emergency by scaling back Social Security while turning its funding over, Pinochet - style, to Wall Street money managers to loot as they did in Chile.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

«Christian activists in the GOP» summarizes everything that is wrong with our country and why we are destined for failure as a democratic nation.

We've wasted a lot of time setting the stage for yours with social democratic reforms and work against the religious oligarch in this country.

Everyone who runs for a public office will have his / her life exposed; if a belief in God is part of the core, then that coincides with the principles that originally shaped this country and have made it a democratic and desirable place to live.

Fact is Islam usually is prevalent in illiterate countries that are over populated and have higher intolerance of opinions (e.g. Saudi Arabia and Iran) than in the western traditional democratic nations with christianity as our back bone to our laws and governess.

I consider myself somewhat conservative and generally in line with alot of republican views — and alot of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country!!

With thirteen million Negroes in the United States denied privileges in housing, employment, education, recreation, medical care, and many other basic needs, this can hardly be called a democratic country.

This Asian authoritarian form of governance with democratic ways today can be seen in varying degrees in countries and places such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong — all with intimate experience of Confucianism.4 Lawyer Randall Perenboom suggests that just as law in any country must be «context specific,» so also is democracy.

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??

Harrington went to Washington back in the early «60s and continues to work with Democratic Party liberals out of a humane belief that the people who run this country are, like the other inhabitants of the country, decent and honest.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

The act, which was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Betty Sutton of Ohio and passed with modest Republican support, promised the biggest overhaul of the country's food safety regulations in decades.

The research, carried out in countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico, and Rwanda, also found that men with more equitable attitudes were significantly more likely to participate in household tasks and less likely to use violence against a partner.

four studies with 3260 participants (4.4 % of the total number of participants) were conducted in low - income countries (Bangladesh, Haider 2000; Burkina Faso and Uganda, Tylleskar 2011a and Tylleskar 2011b; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yotebieng 2015);

It would be recalled that ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor, who was interacting with the leadership of the International Democratic Union (IDU) which paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra on Tuesday June 20, said Dr Nkrumah misused Ghana's resources and plunged the country into poverty.

Luis studies the operation of democratic representation in developing countries, with a focus on Latin America.

Or to be more technical, a country with more democratic form of government / society, which is what I meant in my original comment.

On the contrary, a key role was played with by European Council and by a few member states in a fully intergovernmanental manner, by the Troika — composed by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission -, and by the ECB which played a crucial role in avoiding the rise of crisis - hit countries borrowing cost, but without any democratic mandate.

Rose was one of 18 Democratic candidates around the country to so far receive the designation, which comes with more party support for a candidate running in a competitive district.

According to the US think tank Freedom House, 2014 saw a «disturbing decline in global freedom», with twice as many countries suffering democratic declines as enjoying democratic gains.

Thousands of Democratic campaign pollwatchers across the country will use any phone with mobile web access to log in real time which voters have cast ballots.

When someone is elected in a questionable election, leaders of democratic countries who want positive relations with the country in question will normally wish them a successful term, express hope for future cooperation, or some similar formulation.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

It was a line he returned to hours later as WFP staffers rushed to draft and email out highlights from the meeting, before adding with some defiance: «What you're seeing, in this and lots of others around the country, is the emergence of a new national political movement that is saying to the Democratic Party, put working families first, not your donors, or get out of the way.»

ALBANY — Aaron Woolf, a Democratic candidate for Congress in the North Country, called Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello's views on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks «outrageous and offensive» during a Wednesday morning conference call with the press.

As one of the few Democratic governors in the country, with experience in federal government to boot, he was well - placed to propose himself as an alternative to the president's destructive policies.

«I've been blessed with good health, which has allowed me the great privilege of public service — and I look forward to continuing serving our country and Florida,» the Democratic lawmaker said in a statement.

Schneiderman, along with Democratic attorneys general across the country, challenged the ban in federal court.

He believes the 97 % votes together with other votes in other constituencies across the country will help President Mahama retain political power for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari met with the leaderships of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, only, despite the number of the opposition parties in the country.

Elections caught with fraud, corruption and violence can destabilise a country, allowing citizens to loose fate in the process of democratic practice.

has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari met with the leaderships of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, only, despite the number of the opposition parties in the country.

«The former President is therefore optimistic that the convention will produce a positive outcome that will help the PDP consolidate its position as the party with the best democratic ideals in the country,» he said.

And while the November elections went as expected — Brown won a sixth term and the six Democratic judges on the ballot won seats on the bench — one unforeseen contest in September with an improbable ending would shock the borough and the country.

Commenting on the findings, ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow stated: «The democratic contract with voters is broken in many countries.

The film's being debuted across the country in a steady roll rather than all at once, so the producers (working with Democratic consultant Chris Lehane) are hoping to build a national audience incrementally without having to resort to expensive mass - market tv ads (though I've seen some targeted cable ads).

The leader of Ghana's biggest opposition party, Nana Akufo - Addo, has told the youth of the country to retain the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in power if they were OK with the the Mahama administration.

Addressing the gathering of pupils from special schools, Persons with Disability (PWDs) and government officials at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra, Mahama said this was the first in the history of the country such an event was happening adding that the launch, emphasized the NDC's commitment to its social democratic credentials.

Republican Rep. Mike Coffman has prevailed in Colorado's 6th District, one of the closest - watched House races in the country, with The Associated Press projecting he will beat Democratic challenger Morgan Carroll.

The most Democratic congressional district in the country is New York's 15th, located in the Bronx, with a PVI of D +44.