Sentences with phrase «of democracy at work»

Depending upon your party affiliation, Election Day may serve as a reminder of democracy at work or, alternatively, as a reminder that our nation still hasn't eliminated the types of voter intimidation and other shenanigans that produced the Voting Rights Act.

The fascinating script sees Postgate's narrator explain that all the noise emanating from Britain was «the sound of Democracy at work».

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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??

He is currently at work on another introductory volume on Paul, a study of the importance of both the internal and external aspects (that is, both the beliefs and practices) of Judaism and Christianity, and, in a new direction, a consideration of democracy, Christianity and fundamentalism.

The democracy of public school and soccer practice and work blends us all in together, and here, you're as likely to see a Nishan Sahib decal as a Christian fish, on the back of the minivans at the mall.

So, I hold that the idea of freedom and the social fact of democracy were far less at work in places like Cuba, Columbian coast, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc., than in our America.

As comprehensive as Brogan's account may be, however, his book is at its weakest where the convergence of the historical narrative ought to illuminate the great work of Tocque - ville's that authorizes a grand biography of this sort in the first place» Democracy in America.

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.

To continue to rush through such important and complex legislation at this breakneck pace, disregarding the hard work of cross-party MPs, doesn't just show contempt for parliamentary scrutiny, public debate and democracy — it puts Britain's security at risk.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

By Nancy Platts Trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a better democracy for working people, whether it was the Chartists pushing for the right to vote in the 19th century to the Scottish TUC's role campaigning for a Scottish parliament two decades ago.

Some 400 million eligible voters, 751 seats, 28 countries: a portrait of true democracy at work — unless they held an election and nobody came.

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

At hearings yesterday before the Senate Intelligence Committee the Directors of National Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI predict the Russians will be active once again working to sow discord and weaken our democracy with false personalities and messages.

«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.

Some might say that big parties arriving at an agreement that is much to the distaste of smaller parties is exactly how politics typically works in a representative democracy.

Worried by how governments at all levels can effectively work to ensure that the people benefit in democracies, scholars from all walks of life have been billed to gather at a conference in Ibadan.

Is the emergence of Ruben Dario Vargas a political «dirty trick» or simply democracy at work?

And if you don't do it — democracy works, at the end of the day.»

At the meeting, Kekemeke had declared that he had granted unconditional amnesty to all aggrieved members, who worked against the interest of the APC in the last election, particularly, the candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) Chief Olusola Oke.

«In my vision we can have an economy and a democracy that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well - connected,» she said at a street fair outside the Bronx Zoo a week ago, eliciting a few «that's right» replies.

«My concern is the cost of two commissions, and I am hoping the mayor would join us in an effort to look at how democracy works.»

Jointly signed by Falae (for SDP) and Prof. Gana (for Movement for a New Political Order), the MoU reads in part: «Whereas on the 12th Day of February 2018, ajoint resolution was adopted at Sheraton Hotel Abuja, for working together to ensure the emergence of a new and credible political order to deepen democracy, good governance and genuine development, with peace, security and social justice.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

Formerly served as deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where he worked on election law and campaign finance reform, and published a comprehensive analysis of the legislative process in the state Legislature.

Hans Klein, who researches online democracy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, notes that the online election model works in the high - profile global selection of board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that controls web domain names.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase knowledge of the cultures, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of Latin America; foster cooperation and understanding among the people of the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social progress, and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere.

At the same time we need to work at macro levels too by bringing the ideas of Participatory Democracy into the mainstreaAt the same time we need to work at macro levels too by bringing the ideas of Participatory Democracy into the mainstreaat macro levels too by bringing the ideas of Participatory Democracy into the mainstream.

During her lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything.

Applying Democracy Prep's rigorous and structured model to the students at these failing schools and garnering vastly different results is proof that the Democracy Prep model works and that all students are capable of achieving academic success.

At the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA), a national network of activists and educators are working to mobilize action to advance meaningful learning and build a more just and sustainable democracy.

In this regard, I would also like to appeal for the freedom of my fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi so that she can continue her work for peace and democracy for the people of Burma and the world at large.

After a number of other careers he worked at Elixir Studios and Lionhead and has a long career in Indie game development as owner of Positech, selling over a million games, and developing The Democracy games, and now the car factory simulation game Production Line.

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 — 2011 by Corina Larkin LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work by Kara L. Rooney GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father by Paolo Javier SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 — 1970 by Cora Fisher JESS Paintings by Phong Bui GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman Connected by Noah Dillon KANDINSKY's «Painting with White Border» by Susan Bee BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan REMBRANDT»S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco WITHIN / WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard SUSANNA HELLER's Studio by Robert Berlind STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler

These artists» work form part of the latest exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery entitled Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy, which will be...

Her article «Museum as Artist: Creative, Dialogic and Civic Practice» published by Animating Democracy / Americans for the Arts, reflects on aspects of her former work as Director of Education at The Andy Warhol Museum.

These artists» work form part of the latest exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery entitled Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy, which will be on show from 3 July to 1 November 2014.

, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Intervention / Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Somerset, UK Ambition d'Art, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne - Lyon, FR Redone, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL A Bookcase for Onestar Press by Lawrence Weiner, Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Reconstruction # 3: Artists» Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Advancing the Experience: Robert Ryman & Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH Art Basel, Kino Mascotte, Basel, CH Cul - de-sac, curated by Lino Polrgato, Small Dead End Courts Around Venice, IT 2008: FREEDOM - American Sculpture, curated by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU Slow Glass, Lisa Cooley, New York, US Thoughts On Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's «Four Freedoms» Poster, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US artCRUSH, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Translocomotion 7th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Julian Heynan, Henk Slager, Shanghai, CN German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE TEXT drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, UK Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Une Grosse Caisse dans un Orchestre Symphonique, Center d'art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Wall Rockets: Contemporary Art Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US XX, CAG, Vancouver, CA Wall Works, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, CH ABC No Rio 2008 Gala & Benefit Auction, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York, US The Panza Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US 2 x -LSB-(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)-RSB- + 2 = XX (DESPERATELY) TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE WORLD, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part I, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, CH, Part II, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, US Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, US Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, NO Passage To The North, screening SI Annual Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, US Posesion, curated by Montserrat and Pablo Sigg, Petra, Mexico City, MX Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US Order.

New York — A Democracy of Imagery, an exhibition of work by 84 photographers from the 1860s through 2002, will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 24 — April 30, 2016.

The same faces — not at all infrequently the offspring of very wealthy and landed families — appear in the media after their high profile actions, to say things like «democracy isn't working», and to demand «stronger climate laws».

What struck us about the article referred to at the top of the thread, other than Monbiot's misconception of «consumer democracy», is that he points to research that apparently demonstrates scientifically that ethical consumerism does not work.

According to the Democratic Voice of Burma, there was evidently some opposition to Rabinowitz working with the regime at all, leveled by democracy activists who felt that cooperating with the junta served to validate its existence.

In response the latest report, a company spokesman says that «we believe in the power of democracy, which is why we're taking this work on elections integrity so seriously, and have come forward at every opportunity to share what we've found.»

This is democracy at work, something that you seem to want to quash because your side is thus far decidedly coming out on the short end of the stick.