Sentences with phrase «with democratic tradition»

President Muhammadu Buhari maintained his stand point on the brouhaha associated with the anti social media bill being sponsored by the Senate as he says his administration remains committed to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

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Nevertheless, the classical humanistic tradition, with its emphasis on the common distinctive qualities of man, provides stronger support for the democratic ideal of human equality than does evolutionary naturalism, with its concern for the continuity of man with the lower forms of life.

China does not have same democratic freedoms as understood in the Western tradition, but the one fifth of the human race in China have realized a considerable improvement of their overall human condition during the past few decades, with changes within their «socialism with Chinese characteristics».

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

As rulers, the Seljuqs were true to the traditions of their ancestors, democratic in their relations with the people and always ready to listen directly to their grievances.

In the Calvinist tradition this was first coupled with the attempt to create a form of theocratic society in Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationships.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162).

And politicians in democratic republics are too smart to deal with preventing problems, especially when the obvious solutions run counter to traditions or scriptural interpretations.

Uncle Petie I hope LibDems (especially those with an instinct for either social democratic or LibDem traditions) would not take the view that «more egalitarian reformed (liberal) market outcomes» will make redistribution unnecessary.

In the Greek and Roman traditions, the names of Ephialtes, Pericles, Protagoras and Democritus are associated with the democratic - plebeian strand, while the anti-democratic or oligarchic version is headed by Aristotleand Cicero.

The democratic republican tradition goes back to Athens after 461 BCE with the triumph of a revolutionary democratic programme led by the poor (free men) of the polis.

However, for a country that so often talks up its proud democratic tradition isn't it about time that we follow words with some innovative action.

In accordance with tradition, the Democratic governor made his tax returns available to journalists for inspection on Tuesday, the deadline for filing with the Internal Revenue Service and state Department of Taxation and Finance.

Four years ago, the state Business Council broke with tradition and made an endorsement in the governor's race for the first time in its 30 - year history, backing then - state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic frontrunner, over his Republican challenger, Carl Paladino.

The Democratic National Convention Committee and the Obama campaign announced on Monday that they would break with tradition and move the final day of convention activities, including the acceptance speech, from the Pepsi Center in Denver to Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos, which can hold more than 75,000.

Democratic U.S. senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March — an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.

Democratic U.S. senators plan to aggressively target eight of Trump's Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March — an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.

While the governor broke with tradition to boost his party - mates this year, he qualified his support by requiring «good Democrats» who received his endorsement to fill out a questionnaire agreeing to Democratic politics on his terms.

They were to provide the sources of knowledge with which the Buffalo Public and the Grosvenor Libraries, the city's two greatest democratic cultural institutions (later brought together in the Buffalo & Erie County Library), could educate the city's architects and its diverse population in the traditions of the world's cultural riches.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.

They included his 1983 inaugural, his famous keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, a talk at Yale University in 1985, and of course, his defense of abortion rights at the University of Notre Dame that defined how «Cuomo wrestled with his Catholicism even as he became richly tied to its intellectual traditions and spiritual message.»

Cuomo, a Democrat, broke with tradition and actually campaigned for his party - mates this year, and while he counseled marriage among the Democratic diaspora during the campaign he has said nothing about the state Senate in weeks.

It helps students familiarise themselves with Australia's democratic heritage and traditions, political and legal institutions and the shared values of freedom, tolerance, respect, responsibility and inclusion.

What kinds of compromises will be necessary to allow Western museums, with their proud democratic traditions, to function in an Arabian context, with its proud desert traditions?

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon... [more]

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon.

And politicians in democratic republics are too smart to deal with preventing problems, especially when the obvious solutions run counter to traditions or scriptural interpretations.