Sentences with phrase «need in a democracy»

Hence the need in a democracy to (somehow) soften the offense.

This is the kind of civil discourse we need in our democracy.

To me, it's a fundamental basic need in a democracy — if we are a nation of laws, people should be able to freely read and access those laws.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration needs more clarity on its strategy in the Middle East for Iran and Syria, says Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

(But one question: Why would he target the muffins to people interested in baking when it is the people who don't bake who need access to muffins most of all????) While muffins are a lot like Facebook in that even though they are bad for me and I consume them anyway because I enjoy the little sugar rush they provide to my system, the risks around our muffin data being scraped by bad actors and upending democracy are basically nil.

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

On the other hand, the investor known as the Oracle of Omaha predicted that AI and automation could create «huge problems in terms of democracy» as we know it, as people attempt to adjust to an economy that needs far fewer human workers to be just as productive.

If democracy is to survive in this brave new world, mass movements of people will need to organize together to restrain these corporate behemoths and protect our digital commons.

What is ironic is that it was the need for war financing that promoted democracy, forming a symbiotic trinity between war making, credit and parliamentary democracy in an epoch when money was still the sinews of war.

At last, a much - needed debate is breaking out in Canada about the threat to democracy of the ever - weakening state of the news media.

Your support is invaluable to helping us fuel the progressive change that Canada needs, and to take on the powerful forces advancing policies that threaten democracy, equality, and sustainability in Canada.

Canada and Alberta needs a Progressive Conservative Party and a Liberal Party to keep democracy stable in Canada as well as in Alberta.

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.

These tests are going on in different democracies around the world because we need to do better than we are doing on the fairness front — both in terms of reality and perception.

We need a multiparty system for a healthy democracy in our country.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

The darker meditations about the interaction of human nature and democracy we find in Tocqueville and The Federalist, rooted in some ways in the perennial concerns about republican government voiced so powerfully in book VIII of Plato's Republic or in Shakespeare's tragedy of Coriolanus, these are what we need to attend to.

To determine what that system would look like, we need only look at what the overwhelming majority of other industrialized western democracies have done in order to, according to the 2000 World Health Organization Report, make their systems far superior to our own in terms of overall quality.

While recognizing the need for democratic participation in public affairs, they were under no illusions that they were creating an unqualified democracy and had no difficulty retaining nondemocratic institutions as integral components of the larger political framework.

Religious organizations were welcome as long as they were malleable: as long as their leaders didn't need to profess anything in particular; as long as they could be governed by sheer democracy and adjust to popular mores or trends; as long as they didn't prioritize theological stability.»

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

We need a business model that is more in alignment with democracy and less aligned with oligarchy.

First of all we need to understand that the country we live in is not a democracy, but a democratic republic, There is a huge difference.

Catholicism and Democracy inaugurates a much - needed effort to recount the history of Catholic political ideas in the democratic age.

In the democracy of worth a person works because he sees an opportunity to advance a good cause, to meet a real need.

The eighth and final point is that in a democracy of worth not everyone need feel obliged to marry.

In his chapter on democracy, Sen argues that a democratic polity is important first because freedom is an inherent good, second because it contributes to economic well «being, and third because societies need free political debate to choose what economic «needs» to value.

To be sure — so my parents thought — they needed Christianity in order to make democracy work and escape communism, as well as for their souls» salvation, but that belief did not make me suppose that Westerners are superior.

Catherine Ogolla, CAFOD's Country Representative, based in Nairobi said: «The Kenyan people need a sustained commitment to peace, democracy and good governance which can only be achieved through peaceful and transparent elections.

Muslims need to teach kids in schools love humanity and respect others, not if you are non muslim you are devil, you don't have to repeat it on tv or radio channels which religion is peacful, people are not dum they know all religions are for peace, but where is the peace in practically, showing hatred or having thoughts of islamization the world, stop evil thinking of conversion of anyone to islam that is not peaceful religion or thoughts.help the poor and needy, give equal respect to male and female respect democracy and more important develop tolerence.intolerence is the basic evil of human race.

This we need to realize in a day when many people are trying to have the fruits of democracy without its roots.

We need to keep the story of missionary heroism alive, just as the civil rights movement keeps alive the story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and American democracy keeps alive the story of Lincoln's birth in a log cabin.

The empirical evidence appears to suggest that, while a market economy tends eventually to generate democracy (put differently, dictatorships tend not to survive a successful capitalist development), a market economy need not have democracy in order to take off.

One need not necessarily be troubled by the delay in the advent of democracy per se; though it is terribly un-Wilsonian to do so, one can, and in fact ought to, remain open to the possibility of the benevolent autocrat.

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.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

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.

What with science, idealism, and democracy, our own imagination has grown to need a God of an entirely different temperament from that Being interested exclusively in dealing out personal favors, with whom our ancestors were so contented.

If and in so far as socialism... means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty.

Since the nation was a democracy, they needed the background knowledge that would enable them to act responsibly in the political sphere.

Further support comes from Re building Russia, in which Solzhenitsyn asserts that «the future Russian Union... will need democracy very much.»

He argues that terrorists in our age threaten the destruction of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.

churchill was a war leader... brilliant and ruthless at that... no more, no less... our democracy brought him to power because we felt we needed a dictatorial leadership style, the antithesis of democracy in a way... and, in a way... it worked.

We need to stand up in the face of the threats we are seeing to our democracy and basic human decency.

funny how in europe with a thriving democracy that most of us believe in strongmen with dictatorship tendencies to rule our club for life with a stupid notion that there is no replacement.change in any society and in any democracy is needed to bring in new blood and ideas.SHAME ON US FOR EMBRASSING A DICTATOR AND A SRONGMAN!!!

When the need to belong overrides the capacity for discernment — a problem that can have its origins early in development — our democracy becomes vulnerable.

A Democracy Commission could help that process, and in doing so contribute towards broader, much - needed democratic renewal.

His Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business (Icon Books, # 12.99) argues that capitalism needs to be reined in through regulation and taxation.

He further recounted that, as a matter of urgency, there is the need to think through carefully that if all the institution we have put in place are enhancing our democracy and of which they are not because;

It blots out so much of what needs to be understood about Tony Blair - the journey he went on from social democracy to Christian democracy, his reconciliation of the apparent contradiction in «if it works we will do it», and «because it is the right thing to do».