Sentences with phrase «of local democracy»

Watch out public health advocates - as soda taxes are bubbling up in cities across the nation - the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy.

But it is a limited concept of local democracy.

Watch out public health advocates — as soda taxes are bubbling up in cities across the nation — the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy.

Tory measures are condemned but without a mention of academisation or free schools or the ripping of schools out of the framework of local democracy.

EU officialdom needs to re-discover the need to anchor its democratic credentials in the legitimacy of local democracy, starting indeed with national parliaments.

The Blue Labour prescription of local democracy, democratic ownership and management of services, resistance to the power of state and big business, and love of place and home, could have been made for winning back rural England.

«Shutting the public out of a decision of this magnitude, denying residents an opportunity to have input or even offer comment in any sort of formal proceeding, is inexcusable and necessarily corrosive of local democracy.»

As well as bigoted legislation like Section 28 of course, they also glossed over many of her worst excesses, such as the police state methods used to crush the miners» strikes, the decimation of local democracy and the strengthening of police powers over the citizen.

Protect local democracy and democratic rights by commissioning a thorough review of federal preemption law and its impact on the practice of local democracy in the United States.

«The problem with the current system is it does allow civil servants to occasionally achieve equal outcomes but it takes all the energy out of local democracy.»

It was the illusion of local democracy.

The Green Party of New York regards grassroots democracy as a bedrock principle, and as such we must call for home rule in this instance and denounce the abrogation of local democracy by state government,» said Green Party co-chair and Brooklyn native Gloria Mattera.

From their origins in the 19th century until the present day, school boards have been regarded as shining examples of local democracy, the keystone that links public education to ordinary citizens.

Styling itself not just as a green and pedestrian city but as an emblem of local democracy, Strasbourg will send every registered voter a ballot in May.

Ed Miliband should appoint someone committed to good local schools accountable within the framework of local democracy.