Sentence examples for democratic responsibilities from inspiring English sources

We are doubly unfaithful -- both to our religious convictions and to our democratic responsibilities -- if we fail to support the right to life of the unborn child.

And how will those who abuse or neglect their democratic responsibilities enjoy being even less in control than they now are?

The problem for the parliament is not a lack of powers, of competences or seriousness in the way it carries out its democratic responsibilities.

The unfettered phone surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency revealed the degree to which politicians collude in much of this – asking soft ball questions and apparently happier being fobbed off than taking on the democratic responsibilities.

"Sadly, the political leadership has abdicated its democratic responsibilities". Special correspondent Sahi reported from Islamabad.

With ballots turned in, "I voted" stickers in place and their democratic responsibilities complete, it was time for recess.

Eventually he is going to be dragged into the television studio and have the democratic responsibility of an open, free debate".

However, the article overstates Democratic responsibility, and understates Republican, for the glacial pace of confirmations that has left the courts with more than 75 vacancies throughout the last three years.

Yet he abdicated democratic responsibility in the management of coordinated prison uprising in 1986, turning the matter over to the armed forces.

And second: it has a democratic responsibility to do what the official opposition is supposed to do – get stuck in and oppose.

The fact that older voters tend to turn out more reliably is cited in support of the idea that democratic responsibility accrues with years.