Sentence examples for inconsistent with democratic from inspiring English sources
But punishing government leakers is not inconsistent with democratic values.
Now they're taking another step that is inconsistent with democratic government and agreeing that people can disagree," he said.
— CHARLES FRIED, a Harvard law professor, was the United States solicitor general from 1985 to 1989. 1. Secret laws are inconsistent with democratic self-government.
And what if the shame were undercut by the recognition that such preferences are not, in themselves, inconsistent with democratic ideals?
He argued, according to a January briefing paper to prepare Attorney General Smith for Congressional testimony, that the House bill would essentially "establish a quota system for electoral politics, a notion we believe is fundamentally inconsistent with democratic principles".
If this law were, as Netanyahu mostly seems to want the public to believe, only about collective rights, it would be superfluous, irritating to the Arab minority, perhaps, but not inconsistent with democratic norms — and not even preëmptive of confederal relations with a future Palestine.
But the document notes approvingly that "America's democratic system worked just as it was designed to work in bringing an end to actions inconsistent with our democratic values".
We're told that Islam is somehow inconsistent with a democratic culture.
I hope that the extremists behind this episode learn that governance by blackmail is wholly inconsistent with the democratic process and doomed to failure.
These aspects of the bill render it inconsistent with fundamental democratic principles, such as the idea of equality before the law, the presumption of innocence and the right to silence.
E.g., I don't think that economic freedom is inconsistent with a democratic government that regulates markets (especially with an eye to "externalities" such as environmental pollution) and imposes taxes (including "progressive" taxes) in order to provide social insurance (against illness or destitution in old age) and public goods (such as education, roads, and public transport).
