Sentences with phrase «role in their democracy»

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a post doctoral research fellow currently doing cross-national comparative research on the business of journalism and its role in democracy.

He also cautioned the media to be circumspect in their reportage since they play a critical role in our democracy and poor regulation could present key challenges to the society.

Investigative reporters serve an important role in our democracy, bringing things into the light that government would rather not have to answer for.

«This is taxpayers» money to help the official opposition fulfil its role in our democracy, holding the government to account.

«In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy.

«The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy.

We have some catching up to do when it comes to preparing the next generation of voters to take an active role in their democracy.

She traces many of the questions and issues of her present research — especially about education and its role in democracy — back to her time as a student at Harvard.

The goals of our education system include improving student learning opportunities, strengthening educational attainment, providing alternatives that fit student needs, and integrating our diverse citizenry, while preparing young people for their civic roles in a democracy.

By Jan Brennan Can one semester of civics prepare metro Denver youth for an active and informed role in democracy and community life?

She feels it is her responsibility to make sure they are informed about their history and prepared to play an active role in our democracy.

Teacher licensure is upended, and WEAC is advocate intensely as administrative rules and procedures are developed to ensure Wisconsin students have qualified teachers and that the education professions are maintained and respected for their critical role in our democracy.

BALTIMORE (August 1, 2017)-- At the 108th National Convention, Kweisi Mfume, former NAACP president and CEO, delivered remarks on the crucial role that the NAACP plays in fighting for everyone to have a role in our democracy.

They have the choice to either expose or suppress the truth, and such is their almost 100 % «progressive» groupthink, their obsession with the superficial «look» of things, and their disdain for their role in democracy, that they choose according to their ideological agenda.

It does not include the power to legislate in a manner that impairs the court's ability to fulfill its proper role in a democracy.

«We faced tough questions about our role in democracy, our role in discourse, our role in journalism, and our role in well - being... We have our best teams internally partnered with the best experts externally to work through each set of the issues»

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

He'll face tough questions about data privacy and Facebook's role in democracy in both sessions.

«Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy,» Commerce Chairman John Thune said in a statement.

Not exact matches

I have been particularly struck by the many comments and reactions from children for whom Harriet Tubman is not just a historical figure, but a role model for leadership and participation in our democracy.

Inevitably, these vast quantities of Facebook data — and Instagram data and WhatsApp data — play a major role in a reshaping of how democracy works.

In the latest Democracy Paper, Michael Zürn explores the role nonmajoritarian institutions have played in the rise of populist authoritarianisIn the latest Democracy Paper, Michael Zürn explores the role nonmajoritarian institutions have played in the rise of populist authoritarianisin the rise of populist authoritarianism.

The misuse of Budget Bills reflects an arrogance that sees Canadians as not caring about the deeply diminished role of Parliament and the erosion of democracy that they have introduced in recent years.

«We recognize the critical role that the press and the news industry play in our democracy, and we see ourselves as partners,» Google spokesman Aaron Brindle said.

Political parties play a central role in Canadian democracy and government, representing an important link between the state and society.

Far more likely than a Western - style democracy or an Islamic republic is something in between, a secular government in which both the military and Islamic parties play a role.

He is a convinced and convincing proponent of classical liberalism, which means he is today what is called a conservative, and is especially effective in urging that we recover the role of the institutions of civil society» most importantly the family» in constructing a democracy less troubling to the common good.

Many of these churches are Presbyterian and Calvinist, the same tradition that played such a central role in the rise of democracy in the West.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

All of this is indeed part of the story of the emergence of modern marriage in Western democracies, but Coontz downplays the role of religion in this radical and unique transformation.

The freedom of the press is highly valued in a democracy and, with that freedom comes responsibility and hopefully people in the trade have integrity and a vision of their role in society.

The authors believe that these efforts, together with the efforts of Catholics who work in solidarity with the marginalized population, will play a determining role in the struggle for justice and democracy in the next few years.

Wealth and Democracy raises two particular concerns for these audiences, the first (explicitly) regarding the health of the democratic experience itself, the second (by extension) related to the role of the church in this dDemocracy raises two particular concerns for these audiences, the first (explicitly) regarding the health of the democratic experience itself, the second (by extension) related to the role of the church in this democracydemocracy.

But it is past time to ask ourselves whether, challenged by Islam and the Jihadists who would define Islam, our monothematic language about «freedom» and «democracy» when describing America's role in the world is not inadvertently contributing to the defeat of the more decent and peaceful world for which we hope.

Burgess traces the churches role in the movement toward democracy.

I was in the region in connection with a research project on the role of business in processes of modernization and democracy.

They have pointed to the role of Protestantism, Pietism, and even of Catholicism in fostering the sense of national destiny, in giving religious sanction to the imperialist programs of kings and democracies, in justifying nationalist wars and in blessing armies bound on conquest.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxies has brought to the fore the issue of the religious ground of democracy and its role in social policy.

... A society like a modern democracy can at best only deal with the question: What is my proper role in an association based on the rights of various, disparate wills?

In her role, Cook will serve as a principal adviser on religious freedom to President Barack Obama and Clinton, as well as head the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State DepartmenIn her role, Cook will serve as a principal adviser on religious freedom to President Barack Obama and Clinton, as well as head the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Departmenin the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department.

New York — area readers may wish to attend an upcoming lecture by our own George Weigel entitled «The Fall of the Empty Shrine: The failure of secularism and the role of faith and reason in renewing the foundations of democracy.»

• Third, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democracDemocracy (NED) plays an increasingly important role within U.S. LIC strategy.8 The NED was formed at the behest of President Reagan in 1983 in order to help develop the «infrastructure of democracydemocracy.»

But many idealists felt that the United States should play its proper role in the world, for example, by encouraging democracy everywhere.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

CNN: Pew survey: Middle East Muslims support democracy, Islam in politics Just as an Islamist president takes office in Egypt, a major survey shows that most Muslims in nations in or close to the Middle East want both democracy and a strong role for Islam in politics and government.

If we throw in the towel on democracy — and with barely half of Americans bothering to vote, perhaps we already have — and go back to a having a king, for my money we could scale back our expenses on hiring a court jester and poet and nominate Kelly to occupy both roles.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.