Sentence examples for democratic service from inspiring English sources

For all their evident faults, newspapers perform a crucial democratic service.

The NHS constitution states that it belongs to the people and it is a democratic service offering universal health care.

For all their evident faults, newspapers perform a crucial democratic service: without professional reporting, it is impossible to make informed decisions.

And so a conservative imperialist led the IWGC to create a memorial culture in which aristocratic heroism took second place to democratic service, and the death of Everyman, instead of the great of the realm, became the subject of memory.

By making available Washington's own account of its international dealings  WikiLeaks has opened some of the institutions of global power to scrutiny and performed a democratic service in the process.

Despite the complaints of those who can be relied on to decry the blurring of lines between high and low culture and the increasingly incestuous relationship between commerce and art, art fairs in general and Frieze perhaps best of all provide a surprisingly democratic service to the general public: a one-stop-shopping survey of the state of contemporary art.

Panel: Jim Doyle is group manager for democratic services at Dacorum borough council.

The problem is when you outsource democratic services, online or face-to-face, you tend to outsource the culture change upon which their effectiveness lies.

Simon Aley, head of legal and democratic services, said the only way to pay all of the costs in one go would require an impossible 150 per cent rise in council tax or cuts in services.

One of the novelties of devolution in Wales is that a measure passed last year requires each local authority to have a "democratic services" committee, chaired by a councillor who is not a member of the party that controls the council, to help rank and file councillors hold the administration to account.

Linda Bissell, a senior manager in its democratic services division, said: We have had a long-standing policy of not allowing election posters on street furniture during past election campaigns and have had no representations from candidates or political parties to change our position.