Sentences with phrase «political tradition»

The law can help us sustain the room we need to find those solutions, and our noble political tradition can reinforce the argument for freedom understood as chosen virtue.

He was the one who, as early as 2003, proposed the creation of a new reformist party which could finally reunite the different political traditions of the Italian centre - left: the former communists, the Christian democrats and the liberals.

Given the different political traditions in Northern Ireland, most polls only include people in England, Scotland and Wales.

The Good Friday agreement commits both the UK and Irish governments to demonstrate «rigorous impartiality» in their dealings with the different political traditions in Northern Ireland.

Our American political tradition begins with a revolutionary assertion of civic equality — a rejection of custom and heritage in favor of a brighter future, a novus ordo seclorum.

Such instruments of deliberative democracy may be distinctly «foreign» and at odds with the elitist British political tradition, with the culture and rituals of a traditional power - hoarding democracy and with the predilection for «muddling through» that defined British politics in the twentieth century.

His Latin students, for instance, have their own political tradition designed to cope with atomization, class upheaval, and all the other horsemen of modernity: a Thomistic theory of the organic state that emphasizes group rights over individual rights, cooperation over competition, top - down rather than bottom - up decision - making.

Moreover, in this they were also emphasising the distinctiveness of English political traditions.

«By keeping with political tradition, this decision represents a lost opportunity to change business as usual and challenge the entrenched interests that dominate special elections.»

Until Labour moves beyond tribalism, beyond wishing the «extinction» of other political traditions, it remains destined to repeat the mistakes of the past.

This is really nothing more than educated guesswork - a strange new political tradition of trying to work out what the hell Labour's position is on Brexit.

In a major departure from political tradition, the budget deal was cut without the final input from Malloy on the details.

Whether this is really a method of scientific history» or just the influence of our liberal political tradition creeping in where it has no business, because we have not learned to think hard enough about politics to know when to keep it in its place» is, I think, a question worth pondering.

When the election concludes, there will be a great deal of discussion about the blessings of democracy, our grand political tradition, and the precious freedoms Americans have» all of which we should be thankful for.

The other element that is very important in the environment for the development of Catholicism along the lines that I have suggested is the presence of a liberal, democratic political tradition.

US political tradition of free speech greatly differred from the authoritarian approach towards extremist ideologies in Europe.

Let me reiterate, once again, that we are the heirs of the noblest and most enduring political tradition in Ghanaian politics.

Opinion: Alberta's ban on B.C. wine is a declaration of war — and Canada's political tradition suggests that's where this is now headed

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

«Similarly, the text neglects to mention that the Founders were reacting against several of the crucial elements of the moral, legal, and political tradition associated with Moses and the Ten Commandments.»

Indeed, as Mother Teresa recently reminded us in her plea to the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, this understanding is at the core of the American political tradition as expressed by our nation's founders in the Declaration of Independence.

The Italian left, heirs to the strongest communist party in Western Europe and a powerful Catholic political tradition, is struggling to adjust its values and political agenda to the new needs and constrains of the modern globalised world.

The GJA expects that the NPP, as the ruling party and political tradition founded on the tenets of democracy, will whip its supporters into towing that philosophical line.»

Thatcher used different policy tools to her predecessors, but her governments grew recognisably out of a prior political tradition.

John P. McCormick: No, of course, there is no single republican political tradition — although one tradition has been dominant in the writings of so - called republicans from Cicero through Guicciardini to the 18th century founders of the modern republics in which many of us live.

By republicanism, I mean a broad political tradition or ideology that is centred on the republic, understood as a political regime of self - governing citizens.

• No other political tradition existing today apart from the NPP family was brought into being by tribal entities.

• This tribal NPP political tradition was at the time mainly funded by the Kumasi City Council and the Akyem Abuakwa state council.

A number of government and world history textbooks exaggerate Judeo - Christian influence on the nation's founding and Western political tradition.

He claimed that Daniel Bugri Naabu is better placed within the Dombo - Busia - Danquah political tradition in the Northern Region than any of his competitors.

This was a small, minor example of a long - standing New York political tradition.

Ed Miliband, for Labour, said: «It takes a long time to establish an honourable political tradition.

Simply invoking the achievements of a predecessor from the same political tradition is not enough to convince the people that you will deliver to the same or better levels; especially when you are unable to maintain order within your own ranks.

The Sept. 15 Democratic primary will test Albany's insular political tradition represented by the incumbent mayor versus a new generation of values represented by Obama's victory that Ellis relies upon.

In fact, America has a long political tradition of supporting science.

«Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value.

All this is an exercise in power hoarding par excellence, in the finest British political tradition.

I suggested that, to be connected to its own political tradition, progressive conservatism must do two things.

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

Caucuses are a grand political tradition, providing an intimate democratic experience.

Canadian constitutional law, being rooted in the liberal - democratic political tradition, has inherited a particular, liberal conception of freedom as being conceptually limitless.

In the United States, researchers such as W.H. Simon, Michael Sandel, Alex Gourevitch, Stephen Elkin and Thad Williamson are exploring republican and related movements and ideas in the US political tradition.

We are the heirs of the noblest and most enduring political tradition in Ghanaian politics.