Sentences with phrase «working on that democracy»

About time they worked on that democracy thing.

I hope they are working on that democracy thing.

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On Recode Decode, Jarrett says tech companies should work with the government to safeguard democracy.

My mentor Michael Dooley once observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working conditions and benefits: «As to the majority of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser of light bulbs.»

He is co-chair of the campaign on Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives for the Alliance for Democracy, a national non-partisan group working to end corporate domination over government and policy.

Will Horter, formerly the executive director at DogwoodBC and a staff lawyer at EcoJustice (then Sierra Legal Defence Fund), is an activist and writer whose work focuses on reinvigorating democracy, redefining citizenship and pondering things that matter in the world.

The convocation of an international colloquium of his work on Totalitarian Democracy and After demonstrates as much.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

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Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»

For all the lectures on human rights and democracy coming out of Manila, the brutal fact of Philippine life is that millions of its people are forced to leave their families to do dirty work elsewhere because they have no way to feed their families — this in a strategically located land with an educated, English - speaking workforce and bursting with natural resources.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

In the last of his three «part series,» Proposing Democracy Anew,» Richard John Neuhaus confusedly presents his position on the separation of church and state, pluralism, religious indifferentism, and the proper content of the public square such that one is unsure whether he is proposing a societal ideal, for which Catholics and all people should perpetually strive, or a merely provisional goal, for which we may now work temporarily, but only in lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideal.

He is currently at work on another introductory volume on Paul, a study of the importance of both the internal and external aspects (that is, both the beliefs and practices) of Judaism and Christianity, and, in a new direction, a consideration of democracy, Christianity and fundamentalism.

The democracy of public school and soccer practice and work blends us all in together, and here, you're as likely to see a Nishan Sahib decal as a Christian fish, on the back of the minivans at the mall.

In America we actually work, in many states, on the preposterous theory that it is illegal to teach our children the faith on which our democracy rests.

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

Nothing works in that joke of a country... communism failed, and so did socialism... while democracy was dead on arrival.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

«But, perhaps, most important of all, we should value and see as precious the democracy that we have on these islands where 65 million of us live together and work together and get on together.

If representative democracy worked well the representatives would have been able to make those tradeoffs based on evidence.

The question whether autocracies or democracies work better for the people is probably impossible to answer in an empirical fashion, because democratic and autocratic states differ on a lot of dimensions.

It blots out so much of what needs to be understood about Tony Blair - the journey he went on from social democracy to Christian democracy, his reconciliation of the apparent contradiction in «if it works we will do it», and «because it is the right thing to do».

With these articles, the project takes its first steps towards establishing new avenues of communication between academics working on democratization and the policy - makers who put democracy promotion into practice.

My decision to vote «Leave» is based on my belief in democracy, socialism, and a political economy which protects the living standards of the British working class.

«The future of workers, students, tenants — all of us — depends on our ability to work together to open up our state's democracy to all.

The willingness of our first - time U.K. clients to work with DSPolitical to conduct a targeted, voter - matched digital advertising campaign — even on a limited scale — should put other democracies on notice that such innovative new voter engagement techniques are on the way.

He is currently working on the project: «The Radicalisation of Greek Politics: Violence, Extremism and Support for Democracy».

This is how democracy is supposed to work within the EU: in the absence of a truly European demos we rely on the collective wisdom of 28 distinct national demoi.

Our democracy should work for everyone, but if you've been trying to say things need to change for years and your complaints fall on deaf ears, it doesn't feel like it's working for you.

In the US, the Democracy Collaborative has done much work on the challenge of bringing these efforts to democratise capital to scale with the aim of developing a new economic paradigm.

In Harris's hometown of Frome in northeast Somerset, a network of independent councillors has gained a majority on the council introducing bold new measures and new participatory ways of working modeled on Peter Macfadyen idea of Flatpack Democracy.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

Her current work is on migration and identity formation of Bengal «kayasthas», the practice of democracy in India, and the roots of long - term armed conflict in the frontier areas of India and Pakistan.

ICYMI: Sean Eldrige and Steve Cohen joined me on CapTon last night to discuss Protect Our Democracy, a new campaign that will work with the Cuomo administration on a coordinated push for campaign finance reform using a similar model to the one successfully employed last year to get a same - same marriage bill passed in Albany.

A Blue Labour offer would disrupt this consensus and reinvigorate rural democracy, as working rural people finally find their communitarian views represented on the ballot.

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

Her PhD is on «Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy».

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

I look forward to working with the coalition, and with my colleagues in the Assembly and the Senate, especially Senate sponsors Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Michael Gianaris, Election Law chair Michael Cusick, and Assemblymember Latrice Walker, all of whom have been leaders on these issues, to do the vital work necessary to strengthen this most basic aspect of our democracy.

Campaigning on individual issues is, in the long term, less productive than working towards an effective participatory democracy.

The Ambassador said Ghana had become one of US's most important partners on the African continent and added «We work together on a wide range of issues we both care about — economic growth and development, democracy and good governance and peace and security.»

«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.

Shah made reference to this in her victory speech, saying to Galloway «Your campaign demeaned our democracy, but personal attacks on me have not worked.

By Jibrin Ibrahim Yesterday, the Working Group on Peace Building and Good Governance, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the Centre for Democracy and...

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The 12th in the series, the «Kronti Ne Akwamu» lecture would feature prominent scholars and practitioners of international and local stature, whose interests and works focus on promotion of democracy, good governance and inclusive development.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.