Sentences with phrase «something about democracy»

Its citizens must know something about democracy and about individual rights and responsibilities.

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That this trajectory was unaffected by the victory of democracy and the free economy in the Revolution of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Empire tells us something important about the post-Sixties phase of the story.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

These primitive tribal religions have no place in a modern democracy... I don't know... something about separation of church and state???

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

And we have a Prime Minister who seized the leadership of the Liberal Party by opposing the best method of trying to do something about it and who appoints advisers who believe the whole thing is a plot by the United Nations to undermine democracy.

What he has, too, is an urgent sense of economic and social crisis - a sense of what has gone wrong in social democracy as well as in wider society (he talks not of a broken society but of a «social recession»)- and the desire to do something about it.

Take out the references to Blair, update the Paddy Ashdown quote, add something suitably sombre from Betty Boothroyd about how this will end democracy in Britain as we know it, and stick it in the editorials.

«Democracy is only feasible when people know something about the candidates.»

November Third William Lewers In this sequel to the novel Gatekeepers of Democracy about elections and poll keepers, William Lewers, M.A.T.» 66, looks at the struggle that his main Gatekeeper protagonists face when they realize something is amiss with the voting machines in their district and they need to do something about it.

Something about teaching is so personal and raw that teachers spend a lot of energy avoiding serious help from those who could best give it... Maybe I have to do some rethinking about how to bring the ideals of trust and democracy together to resolve a contradiction that I had underestimated.

Featuring artwork that showed the fascist version of Captain America being beaten up by the classic version, the story featured then - editor - in - chief Alonso saying that Marvel editorial «thought the story had something important to say about democracy, freedom and the core American values that Captain American embodies.»

If we want to continue as a democracy, the people must be informed, sometimes in spite of their inclinations, and the electorate must be challenged to do something about our climate crisis.

The entire shareholder democracy argument could be rendered moot, according to Sylvia Groves, unless something is done about the effectiveness of the proxy voting system itself, the third strand of the OSC's review.

Allegations about Cambridge Analytica show «there's something rotten in the state of our democracy» says Caroline Lucas.

Allegations about Cambridge Analytica show «there's something rotten in the state of our democracy» says the Green Party co-leader, who added the UK's electoral law was «woefully inadequate».