In anticipating a democracy, the Americans have signaled at every turn that they foresee power flowing to the majority Shiites, and the elections scheduled for January are a way to accomplish that in a manner that appears legitimate.
In June nine tracks from the highly anticipated album "Chinese Democracy" were posted on Mr. Cogill's Web site, Antiquiet.com, then quickly taken down.
As bubblegum teen acts like Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and 'N Sync became dominant in the late 1990s, they — and their fans — made "TRL" their clubhouse, and the show's sometimes contentious campaigns for votes anticipated the pop democracy of "American Idol".
John Brunner anticipated direct online democracy.
If real news is more important than entertainment or opinion for the survival of a democracy, anticipating such events would be why.
What we have tried to communicate is that the struggles we are having, the frustrations we are feeling, are exactly the struggles and frustrations the Framers anticipated when they designed our democracy.
As a result, Leeson argues, pirate ships developed models that in many ways anticipated those of later Western democracies.
Tocqueville also accurately anticipated the nature of pop culture: democracy, he wrote, shifts the preoccupation of art from the soul to the body, from the ideal to the real.
In all democracies, anticipating the final results of a national election the same day the voters go to the polling stations is a matter of interest, for television stations and some civil rights organizations, for example.
Her father, Clarence K. Streit of Missoula, Mont., was a poet, New York Times correspondent and anti-fascist polemicist, whose book "Union Now", published on the eve of World War II, advanced the idea of federating the world's democracies, anticipating NATO and the European Union by decades.
