Sentences with phrase «in modern democracy»

So I challenge you to tell us what you would expect to get from better media coverage of climate science and to support this with evidence that policymaking in a modern democracy works the way you say it does.

Like almost no other, he has tackled in his art the epoch - making changes in today's world and our society in modern democracy.

In any court of law in any modern democracy around the world, evidence gained through wrong - doing is inadmissible.

Following the global assembly, Discovery Education encourages students to draft their own charter to help broaden their understanding of the importance of the historical event in modern democracy.

Compare that with Parliament, which is always full of people, bustling about, seeking out and sometimes haranguing their elected representatives, accessing and engaging in modern democracy and observing vibrant, but often rough and tumble, debate.

A coherent point of view on party funding requires properly taking on the question of what the political parties are for in a modern democracy.

In order to have a coherent point of view on this question it seems critical to properly take on the question of the purpose of political parties in a modern democracy.

This is the iron law in modern democracy: extremism does not pay off at the ballot box.

Many MPs, surprisingly in a modern democracy, resort to Hotmail and similar accounts to conduct their routine correspondence.

These challenges were done legally and openly, as one might expect in a modern democracy... but the responses were not as one might expect.

These primitive tribal religions have no place in a modern democracy... I don't know... something about separation of church and state???

In a modern democracy there is no place for a class of educated gentry who enjoy their studies at the expense of the ignorant toiling masses.

He compares this to the idea of the divine right of kings, which has no place in a modern democracy.

In a modern democracy like Canada, a deep state typically comprises leading owners and executives of major private interests and their allies, together with a selection of politicians and bureaucrats tied to the success of those private interests.

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.

There are two fundamental ideas in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental...

There are two fundamental ideas in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental that none could be severely restricted without burying the concept of a capitalistic democracy.

In modern democracies, those who want power do not want the people over whom they will exercise that power to know their intent.

The Constitution's waning global stature is consistent with the diminished influence of the Supreme Court, which «is losing the central role it once had among courts in modern democracies,» Aharon Barak, then the president of the Supreme Court of Israel, wrote in The Harvard Law Review in 2002...

The history of all societies in the modern democracies is a progression from traditionalism to cosmopolitanism.

Thankfully, that is no longer the case, and in modern democracies, church is separate from the state, the rule of law rests in the hands of legislators elected by citizens and judges chosen for their knowledge and prudence, rather...

To the extent that we are actively privatizing how we do adjudication, we are in effect actively privatizing a large part of the way we govern ourselves in modern democracies.

Thankfully, that is no longer the case, and in modern democracies, church is separate from the state, the rule of law rests in the hands of legislators elected by citizens and judges chosen for their knowledge and prudence, rather than their adherence to dogma (in Canada anyway).

It articulates the costs and benefits of these privatizing initiatives, particularly their potential negative impacts on the way we regulate ourselves in modern democracies, and it makes recommendations for future civil justice practice and reform.

Not exact matches

Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioIn view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

In refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracIn refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracin the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracy.

We have entered times when many of Tocqueville's more depressing predictions about modern democracy are being borne out, and actually experienced, although of course in less dramatic ways that he sketched.

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.

In context with government systems it's more akin to preferring our modern western democracies to something like Imperial China, not running free in the woods with my gun collection afraid of the fedIn context with government systems it's more akin to preferring our modern western democracies to something like Imperial China, not running free in the woods with my gun collection afraid of the fedin the woods with my gun collection afraid of the feds.

All of these will kill modern democracy (in their society) if they get to rule it for long, and all of them are endemic to it.

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 judge could find no support for the position of Ms Ladele in a «modern liberal democracy».

In his recent and final book Catholicism and Democracy, the late Cambridge scholar Émile Perreau - Saussine attempts to defuse that anger by presenting a long view of modern Church history.

All of this is indeed part of the story of the emergence of modern marriage in Western democracies, but Coontz downplays the role of religion in this radical and unique transformation.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason, Stark will attribute to Christian rationality and advocacy nothing less than the emergence of capitalism (pioneered by medieval monks, not industrious Protestants) and the foundational principles of equality and individual liberty that informed that most conspicuous Western achievement of all: modern republican democracy.

Daniel J. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Politics at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachussetts, and the author, most recently, of DeGaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy (Praeger 1996).

Although patriarchy as a complete sociopolitical system has been modified in the course of history, the classical politics of patriarchal domination has decisively shaped — and still does so today — modern Euro - American forms of democracy.

In a democracy of worth the destruction of traditional social symbols, which has taken place so widely in modern society, would be halteIn a democracy of worth the destruction of traditional social symbols, which has taken place so widely in modern society, would be haltein modern society, would be halted.

One of the things about Japan that matters, I'd say, is how we see liberal democracy working itself out in a decidedly non-Western, yet otherwise very modern, nation.

In a series of books, Maritain argued that modern democracy of the American type can not be understood apart from the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which works in secular history as yeast in dougIn a series of books, Maritain argued that modern democracy of the American type can not be understood apart from the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which works in secular history as yeast in dougin secular history as yeast in dougin dough.

A complex modern democracy is at a serious disadvantage in dealing with autocratic states as well as in expeditiously conducting its own internal affairs, unless it possesses strong executive powers which are not hedged about in matters of detailed policy and administration by legislative and judicial agencies.

But it is sadly absent in modern US attempts to foster democracy in Islamic States, which look more like secular wishful thinking and risk reaping more of the whirlwind of 9/11.

Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practiceby josiah obercambridge, 222 pages, $ 24.90 Liberal democracy is a modern sDemocracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practiceby josiah obercambridge, 222 pages, $ 24.90 Liberal democracy is a modern sdemocracy is a modern synthesis.

It is true that the ancient hill of Megiddo is in modern Israel, but what possible use could a stable democracy be during «some nuclear holocaust»?

As Alexis de Tocqueville points out in Democracy in America, however, we modern democratic persons refuse to defer to the privileged claims of aristocrats even or especially when they're deserved.

This experience, crystallized into permanent form in the Old Testament, constitutes the most remarkable theory of government that came out of the ancient world and at the same time an ideal that rebukes and challenges the distressing imperfections of our boasted modern democracy.

«First, the word democracy, as used by modern peoples, has a wider meaning than in the classical treatises on the science of government.

The book suggests ways that Muslims may liberalize Islam through what she calls «operation ijtihad,» an ambitious initiative that would empower more Muslim women economically, align Islamic human rights codes with those of the modern world, reform radio and television outlets, create a less militant paradigm for the relationship between mosque and state, incorporate more democracy into the Muslim world and allow for engagement in interfaith activity.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.