Sentences with word «undemocratic»

Because as undemocratic as the regime may have been in recent decades, it has had a somewhat inexplicable knack for having one or two term dictators rather than a series of dictators for life like North Korea.

In addition, investors have made efforts to uphold their moral values by for example, rejecting companies involved in the tobacco, illegal weapon industry or investing in undemocratic regimes.

• Finally, the most sophisticated weapon in the U.S. diplomatic arsenal was the use of elections for undemocratic purposes.

My main (though not only) concern is the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the preference system.

Despite this success, the need for further reform was highlighted just weeks later, when party boss Frank Seddio selected the candidate for an open state Senate seat in a thoroughly undemocratic process that ignored the will of voters and County Committee members.

LG: It's not only about people in certain markets getting their news entirely from Facebook, but it's the way that certain governments are able to manipulate Facebook data and the messages that are being shown to people in a very undemocratic way.

«That is the most undemocratic way to act,» Koppell said.

The statement read in part, «Senator Boroffice believes the divisive campaign is fueled by undemocratic forces in the garb of progressives and the main target is to deter and discourage teeming members of our great party, APC from effectively participating in the elective congresses at the ward, local government and state levels.

The collapse of undemocratic regimes in Eastern Europe and improved East / West relations, themselves hopeful signs, have potentially disastrous implications for Third World peoples.

It remains a profoundly undemocratic party which goes out of its way to prevent its members having a say on policy.

Obuah had on Sunday through a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Jerry Needam, expressed shock at the «revelations on the subversive and undemocratic actions of Mr. Amaechi, considering the danger it poses to the nation's democracy.»

Moreover, it is naive to imagine that scientists who come from undemocratic regimes such as Iran, China, or Sudan are free to adopt positions that conflict with their government's official line.

Small British Senate best alternative to bloated & undemocratic House of #Lords.

We must ensure we stand firm as a country to nip all those kind of undemocratic acts that exist in the bud,» Saraki said.

A more profound problem with using the judiciary as a vehicle for school - finance reform is the inherently undemocratic nature of the courts.

We do have huge problems with the corruption of our already undemocratic elections in Britain, but that corruption doesn't occur in polling stations.

These groups provide the rules to help communities regulate their daily lives — albeit by undemocratic means.

Second, I fear that decisions concerning congenital mutations that condemn fetuses to destruction are made arbitrarily behind closed doors in a highly undemocratic manner.

RT @SamvgWr: «toxic culture, undemocratic practices, and deep sense of entitlement that is the P.C. Party.»

This was a much more united front, a hopeful sign for those worried that Republicans would always support Trump's most undemocratic moves.

This deeply undemocratic move (where voters would have been robbed of the chance to have a say on a huge change in this country's electoral system) would have been welcomed by the Lib Dems with open arms.

And don't miss the two naked gentlemen in the whirlpool, the muscular black fellow and his rotund white buddy, offering full - frontal proof that the gods are decidedly undemocratic in their allotment of blessings.

Using elections for undemocratic purposes is only one example of United States manipulation of democracy in its war against the poor.

By Environmental Defence & Greenpeace Canada Friday, April 05, 2013 Read this blog post on the originating site Toronto, ON — New undemocratic rules are creating a barrier to public participation in upcoming National Energy Board (NEB) hearings into the proposal for Enbridge's Line 9 oil pipeline.

Along with the democratization of sorts inherent in the creation of comprehensive publics, there are also contrary, potentially undemocratic tendencies.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

This unusual media attention, often describing the fees as a «wedding tax» or «dancing tax», is not surprising because it reflects how undemocratic some aspects of Canada's copyright system have become... [more]

Most of the so called undemocratic regimes easily make corruption unattractive because of the space to take fast decisions on corruption cases without going through rigorous and well webbed processes of democratic dialogue and accountability with their cumbersome dilutions.

I think that Russia feels threatened by NATO and EU expansionism to its borders combined with undemocratic Ukranian realignment with the West.

We elect our leaders, and no supernatural beings are supposed to be used as an excuse for undemocratic activities.

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

It isn't true that a break from the EU will necessarily stop undemocratic trade deals.

In its present form, the European Union is «completely undemocratic» said Cash, and that «existing treaties should be sent to a convention so that all the member states could have the opportunity to face one another and decide what kind of Europe they want».

The best hope for a Clinton presidency would be that it would make Republicans oppose undemocratic reforms on principle.

I agree that it is outdated, even undemocratic.

And the Monstreal Protocol itself may turn out to have done some good, but nowhere does Monbiot, in spite of his concerns about undemocratic institutions run by the super-wealthy, worry about the character of the politics that is being established above democratic governments in the name of the environment, orchestrated by multi-millionaires.

Though undemocratic societies, democracies of desire, and democracies of worth all must regulate the mass media, the nature and source of the regulations are different.

The caste system is the ultimate form of undemocratic use of classification, throwing into sharp relief the relation of class to the preservation of social order.

I am well aware that no coherent alternative came out of it, but that should not prevent us from recognising that there are consistent flaws in it that result in unfair, inefficient and very undemocratic forces at work within the syatem!

It's about the first step into a brave, new, increasingly undemocratic world.

From the start the project was all bribes and bullying, fundamentally undemocratic when the regional figureheads would be created without consulting voters via referendums because the powerful posts were likely to be rejected.

«The TPP is an unfair and undemocratic deal that was negotiated behind closed doors without any meaningful public participation,» said

And for our government to be run in that way is simply undemocratic and unfair,» said Dick Dadey of Citizens Union.

Even if religion gives an individual personal strength and strong morals, bringing religion back into politics is not only undemocratic; it is divisive and alienating for those who the British state wishes most fervently to integrate.

The Indies of New York use an even more undemocratic method of choosing local candidates.