Sentence examples for a democracy lacking from inspiring English sources

But, like Friedrich Hayek when asked about his support for Pinochet, they prefer a dictatorship to a democracy lacking liberalism.

Martin Kettle points out that social democracy lacks a majority in most European countries.

It is worrying that India, described as "the world's fastest-growing democracy" lacks a truly accountable political process.

Hungarian democracy lacks checks and balances, say European and American diplomats.

Asked how the "Arab spring" uprisings might affect Sudan, where Arabic speakers comprise a large majority of the northern population, Bashir said the small protests calling for increased democracy lacked broad support.

Apart from his chapter on Latour, whose treatment of democracy lacks much empirical support, Brown essentially ignores this growing body of work.

Mr. Landsman said they were also inspired by Plato's idea that democracies lack requirements for public office, meaning that anyone — no matter how smart or dumb, sane or insane — can govern.

But Aung San Suu Kyi noted that the country was only in the very early phases of building a democracy and still lacked the rule of law and an independent judiciary.

"Dissatisfaction with democracy, lack of trust in politicians, these are reaching historic lows," McAllister said.

Nothing so dangerously corrupts the integrity of a democracy as a lack of faith in its own citizens.

Otherwise, he says, CAFTA might benefit the poorer Central American countries, but not Costa Rica.Assuming he wins, with or without a run-off, Mr Arias's task will be to breathe new life into what has become a sickly democracy and an economy lacking vigour.