Sentences with phrase «not on democracy»
Until recently the rationale of the integration process has relied on efficiency, not on democracy.
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«European democracy, and I think also British democracy, has not been established to diminish the rights of citizens but to protect the rights of citizens,» he said, reiterating his often repeated position that the European Parliament will insist negotiating teams must focus on this issue.
While some people may have concerns there's not enough regulation, it's less of an issue in the U.S. than in other jurisdictions, said Yaya Fanusie, director of analysis for the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.
«Most likely the form of government on Mars would be a direct democracy, not representative,» The Verge quotes Musk as saying.
Georgiadis told CNBC that if New Democracy was back in power the party would not make the country so reliant on the state.
«Now is not the time to get on with our lives, but to take an appropriate response in line with the ongoing threat that Russia poses to our democracy and global security interests,» Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin said in a statement.
They do not elaborate on the details, but imagine 100m Americans pressing a «shareholder democracy» app on their phones.
As, apparently, does Facebook, in which Thiel was the first outside investor: the company did not respond to a request for comment, on either the conference or his stance on women and democracy.
My mentor Michael Dooley once observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working conditions and benefits: «As to the majority of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser of light bulbs.»
A focus on video and democracy - bending sensationalism haven't delivered the turnaround Zuckerberg expected.
«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»
Trump has caused a crisis in American democracy, and the minority party can't rely on «prosecutorial liberalism» to solve it.
As far as not being on her platform, I just think that without a healthy democracy platforms are useless.
One mush make it clear that, those who claim to be moderate Muslims, HAD BETTER SHOW IT BY TALKING THEIR NOT SO MODERATE FELLOWS into stopping their violent acts, rather than banging on the Western democracies door making demands.
The time has come for politicians to stop hiding behind unjust laws that they themselves helped to enact, and to abandon that convenient shield of demanding a vote on the rights of full citizenship because they do not understand the difference between a constitutional democracy, which this nation has, and a «mobocracy,» which this nation rejected when it adopted its constitution.
@thatguy... Considering that religious folks think Democracy is bad and we should bow on our knees to an imaginary sky jockey and have him run the government (rick perry), you're not far off.
On the other hand, I certainly don't wish to deny that government schools that inculcate a vacuous, secularized political correctness do no service to the project of rebuilding the moral - cultural foundations of American democracy.
The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.
If the choice between fanaticisms, whether secular or religious, is the only thing on offer, the prospects for democracy are dim and talk about civil war may not be alarmist.
Your «Americaness» isn't defined by your religion — and part of being American as you so frequently harp on, is democracy, freedom of speech and belief.
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 allow the CEO of a company to dictate what laws the company will or will not follow based on his personal beliefs flys in the face of democracy.
The psychological effect from these pieces have had a terrible impact on the minds of those who are non-white, but not to mention the horrifying tales that democracy started with the Greeks and Romans.
It's not the thought of dying and going to hell that scares me, it's the crazies who are intent on turning our democracy into a theocracy who scare the living daylights out of me.
In 1858 he wrote a three sentence summary of his thought «On Slavery and Democracy»: «As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.
However, it doesn't negate that this person holds on to the belief that democracy is a superior form government compared to the rest.
On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.
The former Sunni insurgents and the «moderate» Shia didn't come together based on a shared commitment to freedom and democracy, but they might have been able to share a relatively stable country together.
It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.
Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.
@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.
Thoroughly agree with Tony Blair on his do's and don'ts for religion and democracy.
Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu.
A school in a democracy of worth is founded on the premise that there are values of truth and right, not of human determination, to be sought and served, and that teachers, though never fully in possession of these values, are the appointed custodians and mediators of them to the young.
While classifying is socially necessary and can be just, in a democracy each person is regarded as a unique individual, valuable in himself and not on account of any class or rank labels attached to him for social purposes.
An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.
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.»
Democracy on Trial is not yet another book attempting to redefine liberalism.
As John Paul II contends in his most recent encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, we must not «idolize» democracy by «democratizing» the truth on which democracy depends.
I love America because it's DEMOCRACY, a word not well know on the cave yet, we have freedom of speech where anyone can voice their opnion, no matter how ignorant it sounds, no worries even though i desagree with the agression and the childish comments of some here, rest assure noone will stone you to death, burn your picture, or decapitate you.
Iran is NOT a democracy its a «Religious» country, and those who choose to live in Iran must Live by their Laws, America does nt have the MONEY to be policing the World over each countries Policies, especially when OUR country is in such critical state to be on Life Support.
If we do not limit democracy to only the official election of leaders on the national level and as the main criterion, then we can accept the fact that democracy can have many different forms.
Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??
There's kind of this idea that Missourians won't really believe anything unless you prove it to them, and a lot of times, when we were out on the protests, there was a consistent chant, «Show me what democracy looks like.
But in a pluralistic democracy, we can't impose our moral views on other people.»
The British did not do a particularly brilliant job of liquidating their empire and there were several clear cases where British imperialists defied their nation's commitment to democracy in order to hang on to foreign privileges.
He touches on Hayes's critiques of meritocracy — the system becomes hostile to democracy, and the best and brightest don't always govern well — before reflecting on the problems particular to an atheistic meritocracy in the U.S.:
This applies not only to the protection of the rules of democracy, because, on the one hand, even the laws of a democratic society may be regarded by some as an unjustified limitation of their freedom, and, on the other, there may also be laws which wrongly restrict freedom even though they were promulgated according to the rules of democracy.