He argued that Islamists like those in the Muslim Brotherhood who embraced elections committed a "mix up" of Western and Islamic systems.
Whatever your political affiliation, whatever one of hundreds of passionate causes you embrace, this election season will be both virtual and geographic ground zero for making one's voice heard.
The council's rules committee voted 6 to 2 last month against recommending that the executive board and the delegates' committee embrace direct elections for executive director.
Asked whether he hoped China might one day embrace multiparty elections, Wan Exiang, chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, said such questions betrayed a Western fixation with electoral democracy.
Nearly two decades ago, the collapse of Soviet Communism offered the promise that power would soon be wielded differently in this region: The newly independent former Soviet republics, sprung from the shackles of totalitarianism, would embrace free elections, multiple political parties and a vigorously independent media.
Ghani also embraced his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, with whom he has agreed to form a government of national unity.
The voters embraced the election initiative in 1998 by two to one but have been frustrated by the refusal of the Legislature -- a club of largely unopposed Democrats -- to finance the law.
Newt Gingrich, who slammed Ryan's "radical" budget as a piece of "right-wing social engineering" last year, has already embraced the election-year version of the plan as "courageous".
WASHINGTON -- President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign.
It is the only state with a state-owned bank and a profitable state-owned grain elevator and flour mill, both of which the good people of North Dakota, who mostly vote Republican in presidential elections, embrace and value.
