Sentence examples for responsibilities of democracy from inspiring English sources

Junior Cabinet Office minister John Penrose was absolutely right then, as he addressed the House of Commons to make the government's case for why 16 and 17 year olds should not be allowed to vote in the EU referendum, to cite that generation's fundamental untrustworthiness at the tanning salon as proof of their unsuitability for the responsibilities of democracy.

At a time when our freedoms are under attack, it is more important than ever that our citizens exercise the rights and responsibilities of our democracy.

Against this backdrop of permanent crisis, of ineluctable compromises and trade-offs, the moral responsibilities of liberal democracies seem arduous.

If a nation denies the truth & refuses responsibility, the survival of democracy is threatened.

By tending to the welfare of the community and the larger society, they suggest a renewed story of "the whole people" taking responsibility for democracy as a way of life.

And that is the great responsibility of existing democracies, especially in an era when national parliaments' capacities are jeopardised by global power interests, to prove that elected representatives aren't so many old files, due for compressing or even binning.

"Each ordinary man has a responsibility for democracy, for the well-being of the nation," he said, nearly spitting with indignation.

The world powers bear an awesome responsibility in the subversion of democracy in Africa.

And we have to take responsibility for democracy".

Having escaped Nazism, Heschel was acutely aware of the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.

The tenets of neoconservatism that have animated Bush's foreign policy — that America has a responsibility to spread the ideals of democracy, and that force can justifiably be used to aid this secular missionary work — are held in low esteem.