Another unelected committee monitors member states' compliance with the convergence criteria. |
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It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability. |
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The debate about who to appoint as the head of the unelected European Commission reinforces this point. |
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They are staffed and managed by a bunch of unelected officials and governors. |
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Bills of this magnitude must be decided by the whole population, not a minority of unelected and unelectable people. |
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It's not just the fact that they're unelected that makes it undemocratic, but the way they are put there. |
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We already have in the him an unelected and virtually unaccountable individual who wields far too much power and influence. |
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Today, as an unelected Brussels official, he is unaccountable and irremovable. |
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As long as an unelected theocracy doesn't emerge, the US will be relatively happy to declare victory and leave. |
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Yet, Commissioners are unelected and the Commission is often portrayed as an unaccountable technocracy. |
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New-style council cabinets work in collusion with unelected quangos to increasingly control spending. |
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As a result, many project their frustration on to his unelected coterie, who they imagine are secretly running the show. |
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It then essentially hands the entire thing, lock, stock, and barrel, to this unelected and unaccountable committee. |
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First, it is given direction by a political arm, or college, of Commissioners, but the college is unelected. |
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They are the unelected bankers, media barons and industry chiefs who control the crucial levers of power. |
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The latest proposal to undercut the fundamental democratic institution of the jury trial came from an unelected legal laywoman. |
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It is an unelected body consisting of representatives of the largest US banks and corporations. |
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The government has handed the responsibility of lawmaking to unelected judges. |
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He trusts fewer and fewer goons henchmen ministers, preferring unelected brown-nosers. |
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The tradition of an unelected sovereign head of state is the true heart of the nation, yelp the monarchists. |
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It is odd how they happily dance attendance on unelected newspaper editors, television interviewers and City tycoons. |
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So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us. |
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But who wants a world order shaped by these unelected, unaccountable characters? |
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From this time, unelected officials from this bureaucracy have proved on occasions to be in competition with the president. |
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Do you want more unelected bureaucrats taking over more details of your life and your family's life? |
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Millions of proud, educated Europeans are tired of being told by unelected grandees that the mess they see is really abstract art. |
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Without discussion, without appearing in any manifesto, the highly-paid, unelected Eurocrats have decided what is best for us. |
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They are unelected activists, funded by private donations from wealthy individuals and foundations. |
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This is an unelected government, installed in office by the Supreme Court despite having lost the popular vote. |
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This bill leaves those decisions to an unelected and unaccountable committee that meets behind closed doors. |
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Now this unelected lord is in charge of modernising the British constitution. |
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The question then has to be how an unelected sovereign can justifiably exist in a democracy? |
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And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role. |
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I do not think we should leave it in the hands of an unelected civil servant to determine what goes in the summary. |
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For the first time in decades, unelected judges were telling elected parliamentarians what they could and couldn't do. |
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Let us judge whether people are fit to represent us, not these unelected, unaccountable standards quangos, committees and commissioners. |
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Mr. Speaker, last night, the Liberal leader's unelected senators gave drug dealers an early Christmas present. |
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You think she stayed in her marriage because she was hungry for unelected power, and that disgusts you. |
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The Lords' veto on the budget was overturned, and Asquith fought an election on this very issue, establishing the primacy of the elected Commons over the unelected Lords. |
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Firstly, it acts as a democratic counterbalance to the unelected European Commission, effectively the EU's civil service which initiates policy and proposes legislation. |
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It is not a task that should be delegated to unelected officials. |
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In case you haven't noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. |
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On top of everything else, it is meddling by an unelected, irresponsible body. |
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The Commission is often caricatured as a meddlesome unelected bureaucracy imposing rules and regulations on the longsuffering citizen. |
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Michael Fortier, an unelected Conservative fundraiser, or bagman some people say, was put into the Senate and made a cabinet minister. |
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How can the government allow its unelected minister to contravene this rule with impunity? |
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An unelected executive cannot legislate and expropriate by means of recommendations and competition cases. |
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The unelected, unaccountable Liberal senators are filibustering and preventing this important bill from advancing. |
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It is an unelected, unrepresentative, and I think oftentimes an irresponsible body. |
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It is unacceptable that in the year 2007, 140 years after Confederation, unelected and unaccountable senators can serve up to 45 years. |
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It went through this House with overwhelming support and then got stymied by that unelected irresponsible other house. |
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have become used to sleazy and underhanded tactics by the unelected Liberal senators, but we saw a new low last night. |
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He described the current political system, wherein the ultimate power was in an unelected Governor, as undemocratic. |
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The Iranian nation is determined to bring down the unelected and loathed rulers and herald freedom and popular sovereignty. |
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In her unelected, unappointed capacity, Ivanka Trump calls to mind a daughter not so much of American democracy as of nepotistic autocracy. |
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But foisting a second unelected prime minister on the country would be bad for democracy. |
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Others were less convinced that it was appropriate for an unelected royal to be seeking to alter the official policies of government. |
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They sit there, completely unelected, and decide what is going to be published and what is not. |
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He had said at a conference that, because he was unelected and ministers are, he lacked democratic legitimacy. |
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The governor general may consult with the prime minister, other ministers of the Crown and senior officials, elected and unelected. |
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I understand that a violation of the Code of Ethics may be grounds for termination as a volunteer or as an unelected officer. |
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Management and unelected officials are compensated within average industry remuneration levels for their positions. |
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This same unelected President schemes to exempt Americans from the jurisdiction of the new International Criminal Court, which punishes crimes against humanity. |
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And by their inaction, they not only handed authority to his unelected kitchen cabinet, but did great damage to the democratic process in this country. |
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To move in the opposite direction would be to further erode the position of Irish elected representatives, increasing that of an unelected judiciary. |
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The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime. |
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It also wants an unelected royal commission be appointed to oversee and implement such measures. |
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The decision by unelected officials to not extend the exemption has drawn bipartisan criticism. |
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In a democracy, how can we justify a decision by a group of unelected judges to strike down a law supported by the majority? |
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He was unelected, unloved, unsuccessful, tribal, opportunistic and calculating. |
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I fully agree with you, though, that the unelected Eurocrats in Brussels need to be subject to democratic checks and controls sooner rather than later! |
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Today, as an unelected official, he is unaccountable and irremovable. |
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The constitution itself was drawn up by a panel of unelected bureaucrats. |
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We have a Court of Appeal with unelected judges engaged in activism. |
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It is not even able to control the unelected commissioners in Brussels. |
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So it's a bit rich coming from the unelected chairman of the Labour Party. |
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It can also be interpreted as part of a dangerous tendency to give judges, ombudsmen and other unelected actors authority over representative politicians. |
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Republicans have expressed opposition to a compulsory oath made to an unelected monarch. |
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Governor Musgrave had mollified opposition by the unelected members of the assembly with assurances that they would receive pensions or new positions after Confederation. |
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The recipient must disclose to members of the organisation and to INAC compensation earned or accrued by elected or appointed officials and by unelected senior officials. |
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What is the place of an unelected judiciary in a democracy? |
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Administrative efficiency, while always desirable, is not sufficient reason to create an unelected, independent body to carry out some of the functions of government. |
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Personally, I can assure the House that the people of Wild Rose are absolutely sick and tired of these unelected judges across our land making the laws for our land. |
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Unlike the soviets in Russia, the various factory and militia committees in Spain were generally unelected, their composition and character varying from one place to another depending on which group was in control. |
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The Prime Minister's Office, which is made up of unelected, unaccountable, invisible minions of the Prime Minister, is using the country, the House and taxpayer money for its own benefit. |
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I would be very happy to swear allegiance to democracy, human rights and to my constituents, but I am not very happy about the idea of tugging my forelock to an unelected monarch. |
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Not so with the stiff-upper-lipped unelected nobody who goes under the medieval, meaningless nom de plume of Black Rod. |
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This, meanwhile, is an unelected marauder. |
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I know you do not like this self-help approach: it does not lend itself to EU interference, rules and regulations and the grand handing back of a country's own money via unelected regional assemblies and development agencies. |
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They have made progress, they have improved somewhat, but the last thing they want is to exchange the Soviet command economy run by the unelected commissars for the centralised rulings of the unelected EU Commissioners. |
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Various political factions, both elected and unelected, cobbled together governments that oversaw steady economic growth even as they squabbled and scrapped for the spoils. |
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Our friends in the Conservative Party believe in the triple E Senate while the NDP believes in the four U's, that senators are unelected, unaccountable, unreformable and certainly unnecessary in the 21st century. |
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It is that I will not endorse by my vote government by unelected placemen. |
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If this country insists on continuing with an unelected second chamber, it really should be filled with capable people. |
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So it would be scandalous if an unelected lawmaker could survive in the House of Lords. |
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It is a political system controlled by unelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom. |
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An impediment to this was the unelected House of Lords, dominated by the Conservatives. |
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Despite the Liberals's massive majority in the House of Commons, the Tories had overwhelming support in the unelected upper chamber. |
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Sir Eric, as Tory chairman, was in a prime position to recommend which unelected Tory should occupy those Quango seats. |
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As an unelected authority, it had no mandate to deal with key issues such as reform of the police and judiciary, nor the controversial issue of the reestablishment of the army. |
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Yes, Iran is a brutal dictatorship dominated by unelected clerics. |
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I am dispirited to read this magazine this week where an unelected, unaccountable member of a wealthy elite is giving out about the unelected elite in Brussels. |
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As I scan this political landscape, I get a strong sense of deja vu all over again, as self-styled and unelected political chiefs broker their way into power. |
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Does anyone care that these mostly unelected windbags are sucking up our money and then flushing it straight down their newfangled eco-toilets? |
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After-like all his colleagues-signing a letter to the Governor General begging her to allow the opposition to lead the country with an unelected coalition, today he is dissociating himself from that. |
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For unelected heads of state, the regime is positively anarchic. |
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To some extent, Mr de Villepin, an unelected ex-diplomat, legitimised this choice when he pushed through the CPE by decree, without consulting the unions or allowing a parliamentary debate. |
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Although the Liberal leader said he supports term limits, he is apparently so impotent that his unelected senators feel free to ignore his will, adjourning debate every time the bill comes up. |
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There is something dreadfully wrong with that scenario, especially when the government side cannot produce a single letter or a single petition to support their side, other than from chiefs, often unelected chiefs. |
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It is time for these unelected members of the Liberal leader's dream team, senators like Tommy Banks, to go back to Alberta, resign, and let the people of Alberta elect real senators to do the job for them. |
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But the unelected government's problems are multiplying: poverty has risen sharply in the past few years because of spiralling food prices, a Dhaka-based think-tank said this week. |
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Mr. Speaker, last night the unaccountable, unelected Liberal Senate stooped to a new low when it used sleazy tactics to ram through its environmental plan. |
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It responds to the complaint that power is unduly concentrated in the hands of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and unelected elites in the bureaucracy. |
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The same month, Italy's seemingly insuperable Silvio Berlusconi bowed to the inevitable and made way for an unelected caretaker government headed by Mario Monti pending elections next year. |
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Introducing tough new legislation on consumer product safety, important legislation that has been gutted and delayed by an unelected Liberal Senate. |
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The office has not seen an increase in its legitimacy, but very much remains in control of key institutions, especially the security apparatus, the judiciary, and other unelected entities. |
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Since then we have shifted somewhat toward recognition that in many circumstances the view of an elected minister in interpreting the public interest is better than the view of the unelected official. |
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Our destiny is not in the hands of unelected bureaucrats or auditors. |
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It was also pointed out that the tendency of some states in the international community to replace an unelected regime with another does not always result in greater freedoms for citizens. |
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The other is, of course, the determination of the SNP to break the union, although perversely to remain as a minor province of the proposed European republic envisaged by the unelected authorities in Brussels. |
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The regional leaders' forum, 4NW, an unelected quango, is based on Waterside Drive in Wigan. |
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The party does not have any members of the House of Lords, as it advocates abolishing the unelected upper chamber. |
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This was a body of the principal landowners liable to pay land tax, and was unelected. |
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What part did the unelected royals play in creating these benefits? |
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County councils were created by the Local Government Act 1888, largely taking over the administrative functions of the unelected county courts of quarter sessions. |
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The elected status of members of the Commons, as opposed to the unelected nature of members of the Lords, is seen to lend more legitimacy to ministers. |
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They also transgressed the established oligarchy by advancing unelected individuals to magisterial office, and by substituting magisterial edicts for popular legislation. |
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