Sentences with phrase «more democratic practices»

Isn't it time for a democracy to bring more democratic practices to education?

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

As the ills of capitalism became apparent in the late 19th century and as various forms of socialism — Soviet, democratic, Chinese - developed in the 20th century, notable Christian theologians — Tillich, the early Reinhold Niebuhr, the early Brunner and, more recently, liberation theologians - have advocated the wedding of Christian ethics with socialist economic practice.

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

One of the points of DAMSELS is that the social dancing practices of Society that made the deb balls possible, and which dance-wise received a brief revival / reworking during the classic disco era — i.e., musically and socially reworked in a more democratic and improvised manner — are now almost completely dead.

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

On the one hand, the presence of «expert» legislators should foster practice of some of the deliberative democratic ideals that both the general public and more scholarly contributors deem to be of value.

Because of the kinds of things you talked about under the name of Fabianism, instead of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms of civic or popular review, we've gone the route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance of accountability, and actually operate in a very different way from other more politicised forms of accountability.

Sen. Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference, still wants to take up immigration reform next year.

«Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE has failed dreamers and let the entire Democratic Party down,» Zaheed said.

Terry, 61, a private practice lawyer from Roslyn Heights, earned more than $ 217,000 last year from six government positions controlled by Democratic Party officials or in party enclaves.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), for example, did not take a position on Azar in a statement and said he wants to review the nomination.

Several Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), have said they will give money received from Weinstein to charity.

Dan Quart is a member of Community Board 8, an attorney, formerly with Legal Aid Society, and then in private practice — who is receptive to 504 Democratic Club's agenda, but may need some more experience before finding elective office.

Some Republicans have grown more optimistic about holding their majorities in Congress in recent days as Trump has avoided major gaffes and Democratic nominee Clinton has struggled with lingering questions about an FBI investigation into her email practices while serving as secretary of state.

It is commendable that he, as well as numerous members of the Democratic party, believe that all current workers at minimum wage and future workers be given a more conducive living wage but in practice it would cause a greater number of current workers and perspective workers to be or remain unemployed.

If the public understood more transparently how the corrupting influence of patronage actually works, how the power system turns everything to its own advantage, and how the genuine objectives of democratic elections are so readily thwarted, a lot of these unedifying practices would have to be curbed.

ALBANY — State lawmakers are growing more skeptical of the Cuomo administration's economic development practices, as long - simmering questions have been reinforced by a slew of felony charges and continual power plays by the Democratic governor.

«Our reforms will make the Council more democratic and will allow our body to function more efficiently and I thank Chair Lander, my Council colleagues and all those who submitted testimony on best practices for their work to make the Council the most inclusive body it can be.

As cofounder of the Institute for Community and Difference, Richard has been studying democratic teaching and leadership practices in public and private schools for more than 25 years.

Find out about past and current budgeting practices in some of our HOT schools and discuss as a staff what can improve your budget process to make learning even more arts - integrated and democratic.

Organizing schools into learning cycles requires structural changes that ultimately result in more democratic pedagogical practices.

As cofounder of the Institute for Community and Difference, Strong has been studying democratic teaching practices in public and private schools for more than 10 years.

They soon realised that they were their art, and have been operating as «living sculptures» ever since — sacrificing their individual identities in order to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice.

Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call «Art for All.»

BetaBabes are on a mission to «demystify,» seeking to encourage a more democratic scope and a heightened level of intimacy with arts practice for an online and offline public.

Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call «Art for All.»

The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic art.

Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of «social sculpture» attempted to make art more democratic by collapsing the space between life and art.

This study made me much more conscious of the fact that when one applies this metric, it results in outsized emphasis on the practice of Western, democratic states in general, and English - speaking, common - law ones in particular.

Coercive control practices of authoritarian parents as well as nondemanding practices of unengaged parents and to some extent of democratic parents were related to more negative parent — child relationship indicators than was the extensive use of firm / confrontive control (rational - demanding) by directive parents or authoritative parents.