Contemporary urban policies in various liberal democracies are purposefully crafted to foster both economic efficiency and social justice.
That is partly because Muslim countries, along with various non-democracies with a soft spot for tyrants, hold a majority of the council's 47 seats; between them they are shielding the Khartoum regime.More surprisingly, countries such as South Africa and India are siding with Sudan.
Along with Leung's lawyers group, various pro-democracy groups from other professions have recently sprouted up, including the Frontline Tech Workers, Nurses Political Reform Concern Group, and the Progressive Teachers Alliancee.
While attention in the United States has focused on arguments relating to Peter Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism and the weakening of Israel as a democracy, various Israelis, including current defense minister Ehud Barak, have begun to raise the prospect of a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank as necessary to save Israel.
Most troubling, perhaps, are the challenges to Simon's stated aim of bringing democracy to various totalitarian regimes via the means of his talent shows.
People of goodwill will continue to debate the merit of various policies as our democracy requires... Whatever solutions we find will be incomplete.
People of goodwill will continue to debate the merits of various policies, as our democracy requires – this is a big, raucous place, America is.
Although protesters took to Bamako's streets demanding a return to democracy, and various public figures connected to the upturned political system have denounced the coup, counter-demonstrations have voiced enthusiastic support.
When she talks about the 1920's for example, she outlines the various failures in American "democracy" (the ironic quotation marks are hers): the "red scare" that brought all protesters under suspicion, the Espionage Act of 1918 making criticism of the military punishable by 20 years' imprisonment, attacks on aliens, labor unrest.
In a widely circulated article in The New Yorker magazine recently, the writer Malcolm Gladwell argued that social networks encourage people to express sympathy for various causes — solidarity with democracy activists in Iran or genocide victims in Darfur, for instance — but that Twitter and Facebook do not compel us to do anything practical beyond that, like giving money.
