Sentences with phrase «one's democratic traditions»

In my earlier years I had little doubt about not only the moral superiority but also the historical future of the values of the liberal democratic tradition.

However, for a country that so often talks up its proud democratic tradition isn't it about time that we follow words with some innovative action.

We are here today participating in a wonderful American democratic tradition: running for president, meeting the voters, debating the issues.

It is an old school Democratic tradition that can sometimes deter new leadership.

As far as British democratic traditions go, one of the most robust is the independence of our police forces.

I don't care how special or urgent someone thinks their cause is, if they're prepared to toss democratic traditions out the window they have no hope of winning my support.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.

President Muhammadu Buhari maintained his stand point on the brouhaha associated with the anti social media bill being sponsored by the Senate as he says his administration remains committed to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

They are held together chiefly by a view of democratic tradition as a largely habitual (as opposed to rationally necessary)....

Others would argue that we should not open «sensitive» areas of our economy to companies controlled by a government that does not share democratic traditions as we interpret them.

Substantial resources for parables of eco-justice are to be found in the literature of progressive democratic traditions of the United States (and of other world cultures) Thoreau's story of Billerica Dam is one.

Nehru used to say that he preferred the cultural attitude related to the spirit of Paganism which allowed many gods including an unknown god to coexist; it reinforces democratic tradition.

It would seem that freedom, as the liberal - democratic tradition construes freedom, is, in fact, un-Islamic.

Ironically enough, the liberal democratic tradition feared the incursion of religion into politics because its proponents did not particularly experience religion as a contributor of «the spirit that is not too sure it is right.»

In his attempt to prove that democracy's origins were wider than Athenian, and that Islamic societies in the Middle Ages or Renaissance contained ancient democratic traditions, he certainly stretches defi nitions and facts.

This is one of the many quaint parts of the New York democratic tradition, which are intended to make it difficult for people who are not incumbent officeholders to get on the ballot.

It's a quaint democratic tradition.

According to Tisei, his policy views, like those of many conservatives, are rooted in a centrist Democratic tradition.

We're a more democratic party, we've got a more democratic tradition and therefore Gordon Brown and Labour MPs should welcome an election.

Even so, did Albany bow to a new form of political correctness at the expense of respect for democratic tradition?

Today is Inauguration Day in the United States, the day we enact one of our most sacred democratic traditions, the peaceful transition of power.

CCD supports the decisions of the federal government to retain a prohibition on assisted suicide and euthanasia, which was reached after careful consideration of the views of Canadians and in the best democratic traditions of this country.

Protest about the price of education was reserved for those countries still clinging to a naïve social democratic tradition.

What kinds of compromises will be necessary to allow Western museums, with their proud democratic traditions, to function in an Arabian context, with its proud desert traditions?

Is it that Jerry Falwell's ideas are so alien to the American democratic tradition that thoughtful intellectuals dismiss them on rational grounds after careful consideration?

Whatever its failings, after all, the US is the home of a great liberal and democratic tradition.

They continued: «However, we are deeply disturbed that the Turkish government has gone beyond legitimate action against the coup plotters to undermine Turkey's own rule of law and democratic traditions.

That formulation will be of interest to scholars who worry that the Catholic Church has too easily accommodated itself to the «rights talk» of the liberal - democratic tradition.

The discussions on rights were within the framework of Western European Capitalism and the liberal democratic tradition.

This has certainly come about in part through the sense of justice in the democratic tradition, and through constitutional guarantees.

He traces the development of the fundamental democratic insights to a kind of «common sense» which repudiated ecclesiastical control and the dogmas of individualism and collectivism.16 The point is not that we should make an idol of the democratic tradition in any historical form.

One interpretation of America's position has focused on its exceptionalism — its deep (or at least widespread) religiosity, its affluence, its democratic traditions.

In a period when it has been fashionable to love to hate President Bush and the US, these authors, in different ways, comment on, explain and defend a larger America rich in ideas and democratic traditions.

And this, in turn, challenges established national political systems, notions of identity and democratic traditions.

They have concentrated on just one thing: how can Labour restore its democratic tradition.

Labour needs to recommit itself to its co-operative, democratic tradition.

The Liberal Democrat party, as the name suggests, has from its inception been ideologically torn between the progressivism of the social democratic tradition and the aspiration of traditional liberalism.

With the money that Purdue and Moore have raised thus far and since none of the Republican candidates have won statewide office before... I don't see our state's Democratic tradition being overturned anytime soon.

«The institution hopes to serve as a centre for research in the changing global ideological perspectives of the social democratic tradition and realigns itself with the emerging global trends in order to strengthen the social democratic philosophy in Ghana and Africa.»

I read an excellent piece by a Scottish academic in a recent New Statesman and he argued well that Scotland had quite a social democratic tradition but that Scottish Labour Party deserted this swallowing New Labour hook, line and sinker so the SNP were happy to fill a popular void.

The moral imperative for the NJDOE, the NJ Legislature, and for individual school districts should be to act in the best interests of New Jersey children, and that means treating students humanely if their parents choose to participate in the democratic tradition of dissent.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards — when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment — can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

This is true for the labor and ingenuity that has built this country, in addition to our democratic traditions.

However, an education system can only be considered a boon to democracy if it, in the spirit of the democratic tradition, is provided to each and every citizen regardless of their background.