Sentences with phrase «talk about democracy»

Environmentalists like to talk about democracy.

If they talk about democracy (and aren't anarchist), they are talking about states.

I was just he was able to communicate with the outside world, and if Facebook is a better spot than MySpace in Lebanon to reach out to young voters talk about democracy, and perhaps fight radicals, so be it.

Despite all the talk about democracy and planned succession, the fact remains: families are illogical, emotional entities, some more so than others.

It's funny you're talking about democracy; but an extra-large and bold No looks pretty authoritarian to me.

Not exact matches

And during his remarks he talked about the spread of fake news on social networks and how that could weaken democracy.

You've talked about threats to constitutional democracy and echoes of Josef Stalin.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

«When you talk about this sort of natural business relationship, beyond the political relationship of the two largest democracies in the world, I think that is an important relationship to maintain especially when you look at what is going on in the world today in many of the other markets and in many of the upcoming powers,» he said.

Given such obstacles, what's striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.

To talk more about this, we're joined by Democracy Now!

He talks about his view that maybe democracy [and capitalism are just going to eat each other alive.

If the choice between fanaticisms, whether secular or religious, is the only thing on offer, the prospects for democracy are dim and talk about civil war may not be alarmist.

The Commission on Global Governance (CGG) is a major player, and its cochairman Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary General of the British Commonwealth, puts its goal this way: «When we talk about «governance» and «democracy,» we have to look beyond governance within countries and democracy within states.

U.S. support for dictators in Cuba, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Brazil, South Korea, Argentina, and numerous other places did not prevent our leaders from talking with a straight face about «freedom and democracy.»

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

While Americans and other Western nations talk about their love of freedom and democracy, the Catholic church has not changed its way for two millennia.

In case you missed it, you lost the election, you know... that democracy thing you keep talking about.

But it is not only difficult to create and sustain such a democracy, it is difficult even to talk about it coherently.

Elections are held and democracy is talked about, but power remains in the hands of the U.S. embassy and Salvadoran elites.

Do ANY of the best of the Western Democracies in Northern Europe EVER talk about ANY of this nonsense in their national debates?

When you're talking about Revelation you're talking about Jesus» Second Coming, and there are a lot of Christians who think that their religion wouldn't be worth the effort unless they personally got to see their Lord and Savior slaughter all the liberals and end democracy like it says in that book.

Talking about values is cheap, sticking out your political neck to try and construct these values in the actual world is expensive - saying no to corporations rather than finger - waving, creating strong laws rather than voluntary codes, recognising and defending unions as a legitimate defence of those with limited power and the strikes which go with it, being prepared to replace internal markets with internal democracies and so forth.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

(I am not even talking about genuine democracy here.)

The air is full of talk about the constitution, about Magna Carta, about the need to renew democracy.

Well, a data - driven democracy itself may not be in the offing in just two months (though a robot - driven FOREIGN policy is apparently now ours to enjoy), but coming up in May, we get to talk about about data in politics at the Annenberg School at Penn:

We should be talking about regional democracy — a mechanism to build better systems to support our lives, communities and industries through more democratic governance.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

In a previous article, I talked about a new research project that aims to fill some of the gaps in our knowledge about democracy promotion.

Clinton will make a rare appearance at Rutgers University on March 29 to talk about politics, American democracy, her career and women's role in the political movement.

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.

Also, you talk about prosperity in South Korea, but leave out the dictatorship and repression that continued for decades; it wasn't until relatively recently that South Korea became a prosperous democracy.

Well, a data - driven democracy itself may not be in the offing in just two months (though a robot - driven FOREIGN policy is apparently now ours to enjoy), but coming up in May, we get to talk about about data in politics at the Annenberg School at Penn: Data - Crunched Democracy Conference: Whdemocracy itself may not be in the offing in just two months (though a robot - driven FOREIGN policy is apparently now ours to enjoy), but coming up in May, we get to talk about about data in politics at the Annenberg School at Penn: Data - Crunched Democracy Conference: WhDemocracy Conference: Where Do...

We talked earlier about Personal Democracy Forum, but New York plays host to another great digital advocacy event next week, too: Organizing 2.0.

As Shami Chakrabarti steps down as director of Liberty, she talks to Politics.co.uk about Theresa May, British democracy and what home secretaries are like in private

Andrew Rasiej, cofounder of the tech politics conference and website Personal Democracy Forum, * talks about «videracy» — a new literacy defined by the ability to produce videos that can express complex ideas.

It's one thing to talk about the «Arab Spring» and democracy, but what if the people vote in the «wrong guy», as happened with Hamas in Palestine?

MoveOn's Eli Pariser made a related point at the Personal Democracy Forum conference last month when talking about social media: he argued that they won't reach their full potential until we can move past the «gotcha» mentality.

Our bigger job is to help America fulfill the promise of democracy itself, the promise that this is a country where everybody gets a chance — no matter who you are, where you come from, where you live, or what you think about the issues of the day,» said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in addition to talking up politics announced she would put $ 175,000 of her campaign cash into the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and campaigns for state legislature seats.

I think there has to be some overall recognition; what we're talking about here is an issue of fundamental importance to a democracy, that ministers do not lie on the floor of the House of Commons.

So go out there, talk about the things you can bring to your constituents, local democracy and local government.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, in his remarks, said, «The issue that you're talking about is one that is important because the stability of our democracy depends on the credibility of our electoral processes.

«Frankly speaking, If Nigeria is a country where democracy is democracy, so many won't talk about contesting election.

«A smidgen of democracy I don't think will go amiss, since we've been talking about it for about 100 years.»

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

@LamonteCristo When someone tells me «The US should adopt European Democracy», then I would assume that they are talking about constitutional aspects like proportional representation parliaments and election of government heads by the parliament, not socioeconomic policy.

You say «the return of Labour to social democracy» and I can only assume you are talking about Ed Miliband's lurch leftwards, calling that «social democracy» seems faintly ridiculous.

«The type of democracy we've adopted is costly, you have to campaign, you have to have money to campaign and it is a dirty little secret nobody talks about, how do you finance this campaigns?

For all the talk of democracy and the new politics, this was only ever about dealing with the fall - out from Falkirk.