Sentences with phrase «lecture about democracy»
The very same leaders who love to go to third countries and lecture about democracy and human rights now are trying to disregard the voter's choice and transform the EU into a «banana republic».
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«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»
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Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.
Absolutely nobody thinks about the country first; we all think about ourselves first, our families second, our parties third, maybe, our communities fourth and Ghana comes a distant fifth or sixth or even tenth,» he said at a lecture to open the National Democratic Congress» Institute of Social Democracy at the party's headquarters in Accra on Friday.
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.
Babak Radboy's «Circle Time,» a faux kids» show that engages toddlers in a dialogue about the ills of capitalism, left a bad taste in my mouth, as did Chantal Mouffe's «General Intellects with McKenzie Wark,» in which an economic theorist, beheaded via special - effects technology, lectures on liberalism and democracy in an empty meeting room.
And since the health of a democracy depends on the involvement of its citizens — we must learn how to use our freedom, as Tocqueville put it — it seems clear that attempts to improve political participation should begin as early as possible, and not just with lectures about civics.