Representative
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But there should be no doubt that he is a man of the regime – a realist and moderate member of the Islamic Republic’s political elite – not a
representative
of the opposition.
Many Iranians, in turn, regard Obama as the friendly face of a US that still seeks regime change in their country, whereas his predecessor, George W. Bush, was America’s more honest – because more radical –
representative.
It would be better if the ECB and the EU finance ministers adopted a common position ahead of G-7 meetings, then allowed their joint view to be represented by a single Council
representative
and the ECB’s president.
But, given rising inequality and growing disenchantment with politics and political parties, it addresses questions that remain relevant for
representative
democracy today.
By and large
representative
of a liberal perspective, they nonetheless recognized the importance of Islam throughout Moroccan society.
Stabilizing its neighbourhood is one reason why China embraces the six-party talks with North Korea, has become a big investor in Pakistan (while exploring ways to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s special representative, Richard Holbrooke), signed on to a joint Asia/Europe summit declaration calling for the release from detention of Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi, and intervened to help end Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war.
But France insisted, single-handedly, on steps that ensured that majority voting would become more difficult and less
representative.
Not surprisingly, the UN’s special
representative
for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, recommended that Israel and its adversary in Gaza, Hamas (which has a grim record, too), should be placed on the UN’s annual list of states and groups that gravely violate children’s rights.
The failed G7 summit dealt a very public blow to a once-powerful grouping that had already been challenged by global economic re-alignment, the emergence of the more
representative
G20, and new forms of regionalism.
In light of the totalitarian experience, they stopped identifying democracy with parliamentary sovereignty – the classic interpretation of modern
representative
democracy everywhere but in the United States.
In that case, we could gird ourselves with intelligence, reason, and courage; return in force to the political arena; and, inspired by the Enlightenment’s legacy, recast in today’s language the theorems of
representative
democracy, a political system that remains (and will long remain) without peer.
In the eurozone, financial crises have forced out two governments, replacing elected
representative
with appointed technocrats charged with restoring order.
Do you want, for example, to pay a service
representative
to do his job better?
In fact, they were merely shining a spotlight on the fact that the national assembly is no longer a normal
representative
body passing legitimate laws.
If Valls wins, Macron will come under renewed pressure, because he is the other major
representative
of the Socialists’ “social-liberal” wing – although Valls is much more authoritarian than Macron on “Republican” issues such as secularism and national security.
Moreover, the firms listed on China’s stock exchanges are not
representative
of the country’s companies.
The Turkish government has now firmly sided with the Syrian opposition, whose
representative
organization, the Syrian National Council, is located in the country.
He joined with Tudjman and the national movement in 1989, becoming Prime Minister, and briefly, as Croatia's
representative
in 1991, served as ex-Yugoslavia's last collective president.
Ahmad Jihani, Libya’s
representative
to the International Criminal Court, recently told me that, “we as Libyans cannot begin Saif’s trial.
But “me” as Don Corleone, oligarch, mystifier, the devil incarnate, and a “significant”
representative
of the French “system.”
But combining market integration with democracy requires the creation of supranational political institutions that are
representative
and accountable.
Such a globally
representative
forum on taxation should not only serve as a venue for inter-governmental cooperation; it should also support a broader, more inclusive debate on tax reform.
The Holocaust is internationally recognized as belonging to a different era and being in no way
representative
of the country’s current leaders or its people.
Electors chose only a
representative
for the House of Commons, and the majority party then appointed the prime minister.
Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re-election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out
representative
democracy from within.
Disapproval of Congress is growing, and people’s satisfaction with
representative
democracy has decreased.
Lately, political battles among key actors have not been about how to build a more effective of
representative
political system or a more equitable, dynamic economy, but about how to maintain control of accumulated power or distribute it among their allies.
Representative
government was created to manage these types of complex issues.
But, as Edmund Burke famously pointed out, “Your
representative
owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society,
representative
democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
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