Sentences with phrase «many liberal democracies»

«Today's Summit will underline that we remain committed to defending our people and upholding our values as liberal democracies in the face of any threat, whether at home or abroad,» May said in a statement Wednesday night.

But it is no doubt important for China's leadership to be seen shaking hands with leaders of respected liberal democracies.

You get no good intelligence, while what you do get is decidedly bad, including a corrosion of the legitimacy of security agencies and a weakening of the foundation of liberal democracy itself.

Trump does not believe in liberal democracy and his voters do not believe in liberal democracy, and that makes the liberal press part of the opposition.

Will «tribalism» or «militant, theocratic Islam» defeat liberal democracy?

Inspired by conservative political pundit Ezra Levant «s book by the same name, the Ethical Oil website purports to «encourage people, businesses and governments to choose Ethical Oil from Canada, its oil sands and other liberal democracies.»

Restorative punishment, much like other practices of reconciliation, retrieves the distinctive logic of a religious tradition and brings it to bear upon modern liberal democracy.

So what Gerecht seems to be talking himself towards is the idea that now that the coup has occurred the slender opportunity for liberal democracy to take root and grow in Egypt, and perhaps even in the entire Islamic world, given the now - evident failure of the Ataturk project in Turkey, has passed.

For Owen, a liberal democracy needs such figures to avoid the soft tyranny of a consumerist and bureaucratic state inured to higher justice.

Presidents from Truman through Clinton «operated on the ideological conviction that liberal democracy is the only legitimate form of government and that other forms of government are not only illegitimate but transitory.»

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....

He traces our unease to the father of liberal democracy, John Locke, and to his claim that what nature provides for us is «virtually worthless,» becoming valuable only when mixed with our labor.

He could not support the «mob psychology, the mystique of the street, the rage against all institutions of liberal democracy, and... the militant antireason of the Movement.

In this stimulating collection of essays written while he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, Peter Augustine Lawler proves himself again one of liberal democracy's most perceptive friendly critics.

It is now almost universally admitted in liberal democracies that discrimination according to extraneous categories like skin color is morally wrong, and for that reason in most democracies it is also illegal.

A true aristocrat, he bitterly opposed state absolutism, without necessarily embracing liberal democracy as the alternative.

And by «democratic» I mean liberal democracy — i.e., a multiparty system, regular competitive elections, and civil liberties.

In our time, or so the argument runs, liberal democracy has attained such extraordinary power and widespread acceptance that it has come to be thought of as the only legitimate form of government.

And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those essential moral foundations of freedom.

They will of course be judged by courts typically secularist in mindset and now at the cutting edge of introducing a new, inappropriatelylabelled, «liberal democracy».

Such punitive measures hardly reflect the values of an authentic liberal democracy.

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

Liberal democracy is a modern synthesis.

modern day europe: liberal democracies accept poor people from muslim countries, and what do they want to do?

He seems to assume that Christian culture and politics in other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.

Perhaps Mr. Anderson should consider drawing upon the moral and political wellsprings of modern liberal democracy itself.

Brian C. Anderson has it right that capitalism is part of our moral problem but, like Francis Fukuyama, follows up a discouraging diagnosis of modern liberal democracy with an optimistic remedy for its potentially fatal diseases.

The inability of the Gallicanist state to co-opt Catholicism's social energy exposed a tension inherent in liberal democracy: between the people empowered as a sovereign whole, on one hand, and those partial societies of individuals which diversify the nation, on the other.

The relationship between Catholicism and liberal democracy has been, is and will always be a complex one.

It was thought to be obvious that liberal democracy is ineffective and that «history» was moving forward, ushering in «new realities» that simply had to be faced.

Liberal democracy has not always been in this situation; the collapse of sexual morals is relatively recent.

The result was that in the West, especially in Europe, Communists were able to pose, at least temporarily, as champions of liberal democracy.

The younger generation can see this looming conflict, and we also can see that appeals to the «messy pluralism of liberal democracy» are futile.

That this is the case should be gratifying to the Western liberal democracies who, for half a century, stood firm against the manifold onslaughts of those who sought to snuff out the flame of liberty.

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.

D. Kagan, modern liberal democracies have abandoned that ideals (i agree with his assessment,) choosing to take men «as they are».

It amounts to saying that an otherwise as - healthy - as - liberal - democracies - tend - to - get liberal democracy had some poor leaders at a particular time.

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.

Orwin says what ends up happening for traditional religious believers in a liberal democracy is they have to settle for a watered down version of their practice e.g. Catholic Lite, Jewish Lite etc..

Clifford Orwin discusses here how liberal democracy is officially neutral towards all ways of life.

Consider, for example, the implications of our belief in the political and moral superiority of liberal democracy.

Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

They are sojourners, aliens in a strange land; their task is that of demythologizing and debunking all ideological idolatry (whether Marxism or capitalism, liberal democracy or conservatism).46.

In the past, and at present, liberal democracy is not the only alternative to «tyranny.»

Marxism and liberal democracy shared the same goal, at least rhetorically, and that goal was freedom.

Disagreeing with the critics ofliberal democracy, he declares, «I regard liberal democracy as a pearl of great price.»

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

I would say that those whose adherence to the mathematical rationality of policy is the end all and be all of answering our needs must also recognize the forms and formalities of the constitutional liberal democracy under which we live.

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

There is no reason to suppose that what happened in Nazi Germany can not happen in liberal democracies, though the devils will no doubt be disguised very differently.