Sentence examples for democratic outreach from inspiring English sources

Last year, in a fit of democratic outreach, Speaker Dennis Hastert gave up his prerogative of naming the House chaplain and appointed a committee of 18 members to come up with a consensus choice.

Back to the NewDEAL, which promises to serve as the latest vanguard for Democratic outreach.

In addition to serving as Assistant Democratic Leader, I serve as Chair of the House Democrats Faith Working Groupp and the Democratic Outreach and Engagement Task Force.

As Daphney Daniel (2012) writes, "The lack of substantial change in the conditions of African-Americans and a rise in Democratic outreach is evidence that New Deal policies were not the determining factor inciting the swing of black votes from one party to another".

And John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, suggests that the margins — of conservative Catholics as well as evangelicals who might be persuaded by Democratic outreach — could make the difference this fall as they did in crucial state contests in 2006.

The most effective Democratic religious outreach has been performed by the Democrat to whom it comes most naturally, Obama.

Democratic Catholic outreach since 2004 has been earnest, perhaps most usefully in the recruitment of candidates who adhere to the Church's orthodoxy, rather than the Party's, on such matters as abortion.

"What does that do for Democratic incumbents and challengers in rural and non-urban areas?" asked Burns Strider, Sapp's partner at the Eleison Group and a veteran in Democratic faith outreach.

Part of that loss, some Democrats say, can be blamed on the success in 2006 and 2008: many of the people who ran Democratic faith-outreach programs now work in the Obama administration, draining an already shallow pool.

These values are best spread globally by the time-tested measures: diplomacy, respect for other countries' sovereign borders, abidance by such international laws as the Geneva Convention and the principle of habeas corpus, abhorrence of torture, cultural outreach, democratic example and, to handle terrorism at home, police action.

But the lawmakers rebuffed the outreach as Democratic leaders voiced concerns the meeting would prove little more than a photo opportunity bolstering Trump.