Sentences with phrase «on democracy»

It's an attack on democracy, what happened yesterday; it's the well of hatred that killed her.
Any further delay is an outrageous and illegal assault on democracy.
These trends have resulted in serious questions being asked about the impact on democracy at the local level.
Overall, only 33 percent found social media had a positive effect on democracy, against 60 percent who believed the opposite.
While this represents a positive out - turn of a regional determination to uphold our charter on democracy and good governance, such intervention may not represent a blue print applicable in all circumstances.
Until recently the rationale of the integration process has relied on efficiency, not on democracy.
But the biggest risk we can place on a democracy is not to turn out to vote.
- Just announced committee of academics to commission independent research on social media on democracy.
For example, on the democracy side, I'm not aware of any country that gives children the vote but prisoners voting is more varied.
It is on such assumptions that he wars on democracy and promises what he asserts is a better way of life.
In this attack on democracy, governance by locally elected school boards is stripped away altogether.
«This is the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I've every experienced,» he said during the day's first panel.
With each change in journalism's technology and professional standards, there is an impact on our democracy.
It addresses at the same time the need to stimulate the civic engagement and constructive attitudes based on democracy and human rights.
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot appeared on Democracy Now to discuss what many are calling a continuation of Brazil's coup: the conviction and pending imprisonment of former president Lula da Silva, despite a lack of evidence.
His interest in establishing further promoting his views on democracy in Ghana saw him establish and fund The Statesman newspaper.
Post uses the device of comparing Thomas Jefferson's views on democracy with the ideal of a democratic cyberspace.
Schnelli summed up his thoughts on democracy for Bitcoin governance during his final comments in regard to the audience member's question.
It grieves my heart to wake up to another dark day of rape on democracy as been continually witnessed under the administration of Governor Yahaya Bello.
Miner also told the committee the state's decisions directly impact the city of Syracuse and corruption has a «corrosive influence on our democracy
As outgoing president, Obasanjo declared Yar» Adua's election a «do - or - die» affair; and inflicted such on the polity, producing the most brazen rape on democracy Nigeria ever saw, making even Yar» Adua so ashamed of his own «election».
«We, therefore, condemn this offensive on our democracy by IGP Idris.
Titled «the political economy of democracy promotion», this collaboration brings together academics, policy makers, and practitioners working on democracy promotion in a way that previous projects have not.
@agc - I wouldn't say this answer focuses on democracies at all, but since «populism» is a modern term there is some difficulty in associating it with writings from the past.
«Now is a time of reckoning for all tech and internet companies to truly consider their impact on democracies worldwide,» said Nuala O'Connor, President of the Center for Democracy & Technology.
All too often, research on democracy in Africa ignores the fact that many states have been holding elections and running legislatures since independence.
Earlier Thursday morning, Teachout also appeared on Democracy Now!
He said a lecture on democracy and the rule of law «coming from a party with a tradition of undemocratic rule is a desperate attempt to pervert history and the course of justice.
H: And what Prof. Stiglitz said on Democracy Now is even sharper [1]: «[Fed] lending is actually below what it was in 2007.
Much of the current theological critique of liberal society focuses not so much on democracy as a system of political representation as on liberalism as a form of society that operates, or seeks to operate, without a substantive conception of the good.
A spokeswoman for Stringer countered that Spitzer's the one who's trampling on democracy by trying to «use his personal fortune to try and buy this election wholesale.»
Andrea Teti critiqued European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.
Indeed, an opaque parliament is a blight on any democracy.
«Public schools provide opportunities for all students and exist to support democracy, so politicians shouldn't turn their backs on democracy when it comes to the top education post,» she said.
This programme was part of an evolving research agenda between partner institutions of JGU and is expected to be a melting pot of ideas on democracy and its institutions and likely to determine the course of future discussions and debate on the subject.
In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi State.
«However, as a law - abiding party, we hereby urge our members and the people of Kogi state to remain calm and not despair over this slap on democracy as the courts would soon deliver justice with regard to the authentic governor with the mandate of the majority at the election.»
Lawmaker representing Ijebu Ode / Odogbolu / Ijebu North East at the House of Representatives, Hon. Kehinde Odeneye, has called on Nigerians not to appraise President Muhammadu Buhari based on his democracy day speech because there is nothing really much to say about a year into his administration where he was so much inundated with the task of putting what was abruptly left by the previous administration back into perspectives.
The party described Idris's action as offensive on democracy, and also condemned the deliberate insult being heaped on each of our legislators by appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Citizenship is a statutory national curriculum subject at key stages three and four, and includes lessons on democracy, politics, equalities and anti-extremist education.
I should have said in my apply above what is Friendship PCS doing since we have some data on them and not much on Democracy Prep since they are newer to DC.
You know that you can count on Democracy Now!
But with all its faults, I believe that peer review mostly works and that it is the least worst system yet invented — rather like Churchill's comments on Democracy.....
I would suggest that the emphasis on the democracy principle is reminiscent of the Court's emphasis on the principle of the rule of law in the recent case of H v Council, where the Court interpreted the Treaty provisions on the Court's jurisdiction with regard to CFSP - matters through the prism of the principle of the rule of law.
If implemented without a comprehensive, properly resourced, long - term strategy to preserve legislative information, these budget cuts and policy directions will have an irreversible effect on our democracy for years to come.
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