Sentences with phrase «not leading a democracy»

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In democracies, political «leaders» rarely lead, but follow voters» behavior — not voters» wishes or desires, but behavior.

Unfortunately for those who support SYRIZA, however, a coalition of PASOK and New Democracy would not necessarily lead to a watershed moment with Europe.

That, of course, is democracy but it is not necessarily leading to good decisions by government.

Reciting the imperfections of democracy does not lead ineluctably to the conclusion that the least accountable branch of the federal government is the better forum for our national debate about public values.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

If we map socio - political structures to types of theism we have democracy is agnostic (belief or not what you want), capitalism is pantheism (money is God and everything has a price) and dictatorships and other non-democracies are akin to prophet - led religions or mono - theisms.

While improving democracies is important, we should not let the ardor of our rhetoric in fixing our democracy lead us to blur the international line between democracies and authoritarian systems...

Thus a democratic society can find ways to craft forcible responses to terrorism that do not also lead to the loss of democracy.

Politics in Spires: You argue in Machiavellian Democracy that previous scholarship has not attended enough to differences in republican thinking in Florence at the time of Machiavelli, leading to a misrepresentation of Machiavelli.

That the radical democracy and participatory budgeting practiced by these citizen - led movements are not commonly read as republican signifies the failure of the tradition to shed the legacy of its classical roots.

The American response to revolutionary communism was premised on the belief that containment would lead to stability and eventual Soviet collapse, not on the idea of forcible and immediate regime change to democracy.

A narrow win on a poor show could lead to the public having a sense of a judgement «not proven» which could prove to be difficult and disruptive for a long time to come and could further fuel that feeling of distance from democracy.

The election was won by the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest and not permitted to become prime minister.

Although legislation enacted over the past 12 years has lead to greater transparency in political party funding, unlike many other major industrial democracies, the UK does not have a ceiling on donations to political parties.

This should encourage the leadership to proceed to consequential reforms and changes in a way that may not necessarily lead to the culmination of a Western - type liberal democracy.

This is certainly not worthy of the world's «leading» democracy.

Similarly, Michael Howard's plans to restrict democracy within the Conservative Party were scuppered not by the Tory press, but by a revolt led by the grassroots readers of ConservativeHome.

There are three reasons for the bill, he says: for the sake of democracy; because it will lead to better law - making; and because Lords reform can not be ducked.

Nigel Farage has told ITV News Ukip will not unite with Front National, the right - wing French party led Marine Le Pen, and the party will instead seek to join forces with parties that have views «consistent with classical liberal democracy».

This, the report argued, may lead to an outcome that threatens democracy not just in Anambra State but also in the South - east and indeed the country as a whole.

Unlock Democracy: Conservative council tax veto would lead to centralised control not accountability

Seems like most people here make a distinction between the technocratic RBE, and the democratic communism, but doesn't that just make RBE the socialism stage (at least as the version defined by Lenin), before the communism stage of material abundance which naturally leads to a society which doesn't require government or «democracy» as it is known today?

Esiso said those trying to create faction in the party were not only «enemies of PDP» but also of democracy; saying that the convention that produced the Uche Secondus - led National Executive was free and fair.

Ed is not a left - winger but he told the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy that he wants «to lead the party from the left».

The leading opposition party also urged the President of the Senate and other senators to protect the institution of the legislature and the country's democracy by not limiting their action only to finding Ibrahim Idris as «unfit» to hold public office

Moderate members like me aren't prepared to allow Corbyn the luxury of leading Labour into the electoral abyss in the vain hope that this dose of real democracy will banish the hard left forever.

Finally, the party noted that as much as the party is not against the aspiration of anybody to any position within the party, members must endeavour to avoid the undemocratic acts that led to the downfall of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by ensuring that we follow strictly the tenets of democracy and the constitution of our party in pursuance of our aspirations.

«My advise to the APC led government is that they must not do anything that will truncate our democracy.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

Acceptance of this relativistic worldview undermines democracy and leads not to tolerance but to authoritarianism.

Yet the Greeks of Aristotle's day knew that elections could lead to oligarchy, not democracy, and that a democratic alternative existed.

But Peter Pulzer, Gladstone Professor of government and public administration at the University of Oxford, warns that better access to information does not necessarily lead to greater democracy.

Democracy a pattern of regular hookups that don't have to lead to relationships.

The producers of God's Not Dead takes on the Biblical epic with the low - budget, faith - based production Samson (2018, PG - 13) and 1987: When the Day Comes (South Korea, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the historic public outcry against the military dictatorship that led to the birth of South Korean democraNot Dead takes on the Biblical epic with the low - budget, faith - based production Samson (2018, PG - 13) and 1987: When the Day Comes (South Korea, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the historic public outcry against the military dictatorship that led to the birth of South Korean democranot rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the historic public outcry against the military dictatorship that led to the birth of South Korean democracy.

For instance, Strom points out that teaching about the Holocaust shouldn't solely focus on its end, but also lead to lessons about what was happening in the 1920s and how and why democracy in Germany broke down.

To start developing a possible concept of a world democracy that would not lead to replicate current oppressive systems and inequality.

For this reason democracy in America had not lead to tyranny.

He saw how the experiments of Hu and Zhao were leading to a stronger economy, but did not want to countenance the idea of Democracy.

In a world just as tumultuous as in 1982 (MacConnel's work was in response to President Reagan's challenge to the Soviets through military buildup), the years leading up to today have seen wars waged in Afghanistan and Iraq where the perceived threats seemed to be not much more than a hostility toward democracy and perceived threat of weapons of mass destruction.

Importantly, this was not an experiment in art; it was an experiment in democracy led by artists (primarily Phyllis Yampolsky), to which not everyone was amenable.

Öztürk's premise remains an interesting one to consider, however, and not just for Turkey: Does the expansion of democracy and basic rights and freedoms necessarily, or even generally, lead to increased environmental sensitivity?

However, keeping in mind the doctrine of Separation of Powers, Judiciary has to exercise considerable restraint to ensure that the surcharged democracy does not lead to a breakdown of the working of Parliament and the Government.

«In my opinion you should not hide behind a Facebook post when you lead a company with the data of 2.2 billion people that many of us now fear is jeopardizing democracy at a global scale,» one commenter wrote to Zuckerberg.