Sentence examples for Excessively democratic from inspiring English sources

Those who decried the alleged "paralysis in decision-making" under Modi's excessively democratic, consultative and consensual predecessor are now faced with a different kind of paralysis, as files pile up in Modi's office, the only place where decisions are made.

Yet the procedures in place for choosing that government are insufficiently democratic and excessively complex.

Such a gesture was deemed excessively dramatic by the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.

Still other critics claim that public justification is too burdensome because it implies an unrealistic and excessively high-minded view of democratic politics due to how it restricts public discourse.

The economy is excessively dependent on its energy sector; democratic development has taken a very authoritarian form; and the new plutocrats get richer while the poor, after a few years when average living standards rose, are again becoming poorer.

He began to theorize that a communications system granting ordinary individuals unlimited power to filter information threatens to excessively fragment and polarize citizens -- a poisonous condition for democratic self government.

He said the military was getting excessively involved in civil affairs, stopping the country from being democratic and inviting international criticism.

George W. Bush used "free speech zones" excessively during his first term as president and both the Democratic and Republican parties have used them at various conventions to mute any and all criticism of their policies.

The 1988 campaign of the first President George Bush devastated the Democratic nominee, Michael S. Dukakis, by defining him as soft on crime and excessively devoted to civil liberties.

By April, when another Democratic debate rolled around, Sanders had seemingly found his bearings a bit and hit Clinton for being excessively pro-Israel, a valid left-wing line of attack.

In what Republicans said was a pre-emptive effort to nullify Democratic attacks that are likely to gain more attention in the weeks ahead, Mr. Bush's political operation, using elected officials and party leaders, has begun to try to cast the Democratic candidates as excessively negative in their attacks on a personally popular president.