Sentences with phrase «issues about our democracy»

«There is an issue about democracy in the party.»

«But the other reason why I think it's unfortunate... we really should be talking about the substantive issues about our democracy.»

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As believers, we need to be very concerned about the state of our Christianity because the issues that threaten to invalidate our system of democracy are the very issues that threaten to invalidate the American Church.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

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.

You can also tell a tween or teen that knowing how to read, write and think critically about issues is important in our democracy.

Obama, who spoke to a crowd of approximately 18,000, according to the White House, also used the speech to issue a warning about the fragility of democracy.

While benign autocracy rather than Western - style democracy is still the preferred political model, it has not prevented the emergence of lively discussions about social issues, increasingly facilitated by the internet.

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

As part of our exploration of these issues, Politics in Spires partnered with Open Democracy in 2012 to run a series on «democratic wealth» which explored debates about how we can build an economy that serves the public good which has now been converted into an e-book which will be launched today.

Even if they are wrong, the idea that a court can declare that someone's public statements about a controversial political issue are lies and punish them with criminal penalties strikes at the very heart of democracy.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

With the electorate increasingly consulted directly on a broad range of issues you would be forgiven for thinking that the use of the referendum had brought about a golden age of democracy.

The Commons» European scrutiny committee's chair, arch Tory eurosceptic Bill Cash, said: «The prime minister needs to be aware, as he discusses these matters in the European Council, that the debate has moved on from specific concerns about individual issues to fundamental questions which involve our democracy.»

This issue, however, about the nature of citizenship in republican thought and the (pre) conditions for certain kinds of citizen activity pose a difficulty when turning to republicanism for guidance in contemporary democracies.

The Ambassador said Ghana had become one of US's most important partners on the African continent and added «We work together on a wide range of issues we both care about — economic growth and development, democracy and good governance and peace and security.»

Our bigger job is to help America fulfill the promise of democracy itself, the promise that this is a country where everybody gets a chance — no matter who you are, where you come from, where you live, or what you think about the issues of the day,» said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in addition to talking up politics announced she would put $ 175,000 of her campaign cash into the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and campaigns for state legislature seats.

As for the public, they may not consider reform to be the highest priority, but when asked about the issue, they are overwhelmingly supportive of reform, many seeing the House of Lords as the preserve of the rich, the privileged and the well connected — effectively asking how can the presently constituted House of Lords claim true legitimacy in a 21st century democracy.

I think there has to be some overall recognition; what we're talking about here is an issue of fundamental importance to a democracy, that ministers do not lie on the floor of the House of Commons.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, in his remarks, said, «The issue that you're talking about is one that is important because the stability of our democracy depends on the credibility of our electoral processes.

The authors worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish.

DK: It was so clarifying to see these questions repeat, to hear Harry Waters [who did the play in San Francisco] worry about how Belize handles «Democracy in America,» and then to hear Nathan Stewart - Jarrett, who's opening it on Broadway, have the exact same problems and issues and to realize these are not problems that the text solves.

«As a result, your approach to social relationships and the emotions you have toward role models, teachers, and peers will change the way you think about non-social concepts like math or democracy or political issues like the death penalty.

She traces many of the questions and issues of her present research — especially about education and its role in democracy — back to her time as a student at Harvard.

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Tamim Ansary writes and lectures about Afghanistan, Islamic history, democracy, schooling and learning, fiction and the writing process, and other issues and directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

The CDC issues travel notices, designed to inform travelers about current health concerns related to specific countries that may affect travelers» health, including countries that scholars may visit with Democracy Prep.

In 2014, the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) issued a report demonstrating that charter schools in 15 states — about one third of the states with charter schools — had reported over $ 100 million in fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement since 1994.

Two years ago, the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) issued a report demonstrating that charter schools in 15 states — about one - third of the states with charter schools — had experienced over $ 100 million in reported fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement since 1994.

In 2014, the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) issued a report demonstrating that charter schools in 15 states — about one third of the states with charter schools — had reported over $ 100 million in...

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

Both magazines have other articles in their current issues that will likely be of interest to Dot Earth readers, including a conversation in Creative Nonfiction with Al Roker about the beauty and peril in hurricanes and Nico Stehr's piece in Issues, «Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?&issues that will likely be of interest to Dot Earth readers, including a conversation in Creative Nonfiction with Al Roker about the beauty and peril in hurricanes and Nico Stehr's piece in Issues, «Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?&Issues, «Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?»

In the world of issues about AGW / CC and Democracy globally the USA is a recalcitrant bar none other.

Winston was not God, certainly, and this statement is SUCH a dismissive kneejerk that it is no more than a signal that the person using it has stopped thinking clearly or deeply about the real issues, because OF COURSE our democracy is best.

It raises significant issues about the nature of power in democracy, the role and status of science, and the power of corporate lobbying.

This is real democracy in action; if you are knowledgeable about these issues, EPA welcomes you to help populate this report.

«We faced tough questions about our role in democracy, our role in discourse, our role in journalism, and our role in well - being... We have our best teams internally partnered with the best experts externally to work through each set of the issues»

Maybe what is new is the democracy theme, which assumes that everyone has a stake in the public domain, can be affected by public stress, and can be part of the solution through personal action (such as talking about issues in their social network) and collective action (by joining with others to work on change).

Maybe what is new is the democracy theme, which assumes that everyone has a stake in the public domain, can be affected the public stress (Trump supporters included), and can be part of the solution through personal action (such as talking about issues in their social network) and collective action (by joining with others to work on change).