A democratic principle is [that it is] there to get to everyone.
Still, indubitably clannish as they were, the price of admission to what Edel calls the "House of Lions" had nothing to do with Edwardian standards of lineage or class (although many of the members leaned on independent income) and everything to do with a democratic principle of competitively sharpened wits.
These developments have led to the gradual standardisation of healthcare practices for citizens as an affirmation of a democratic principle that was gradually strengthened in Europe since the 1950s, with the introduction of welfare policies.
Yet surmounting the current crisis in Tunisia will require a recommitment to democratic principles and a spirit of compromise on all sides.
Not only is it false that open borders is inconsistent with a functioning democracy, democratic principles may even prohibit a state's coercively excluding disenfranchised foreigners from entering its territory.
[D5.] A Prescription for Democracy The right response to Sept. 11 is not a public relations campaign but a reassertion of democratic principles, which could help the economy.
Critics said the law was an attack on democratic principles and an assault on labor unions.
I was there at a period when a country rediscovered its own history, tried to build a new society on democratic principles, and a free market economy with many ups and downs along the way.
"What we are seeing [now] is a battle for legitimacy in the civil sector," Amir Fuchs, a researcher on democratic principles at the Israel Democracy Institute, told VICE News.
As Louis Armstrong is reported to have said, there's some folks that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em... "But on the other hand, there were those who took the thing to be a rousing declaration of democratic principles and a tract for the assassination of dictators.
The New York Post called the act "a monstrosity", "a wretched repudiation of democratic principles," while The Nation accused Democratic liberals of a "neurotic, election-year anxiety to escape the charge of being 'soft on Communism' even at the expense of sacrificing constitutional rights".
