The phrase "as a modern democracy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the characteristics, principles, or practices of contemporary democratic systems.
Example: "The country has made significant progress in human rights, establishing itself as a modern democracy."
Alternatives: "in today's democratic society" or "as a contemporary democracy".
In a recent interview, Eamon Gilmore, Ireland's deputy prime minister, said that Ireland had asserted its role as a "modern democracy".
Last month, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, took a decision that could undermine attempts to present his country as a modern democracy and might affect the delicate peace process being negotiated with the Farc guerrilla group in Havana.
All our achievements will be wiped out and it will happen in such a violent way I don't know if we will be able to continue functioning as a modern democracy".
It laid the ground for Japan's emergence as a modern democracy and an economic superpower.Unlike the American constitution, which was amended and reinterpreted extensively even during its first 50 years, the Japanese constitution including its remarkable war-renouncing Article 9 has remained sacrosanct.
The square has become an arena for clashing worldviews: an unyielding leader's top-down, neo-Ottoman, conservative vision of the nation as a regional power versus a bottom-up, pluralist, disordered, primarily young, less Islamist vision of the country as a modern democracy.
"We've never really settled down as a modern democracy to say 'Look, we've got all this land, how should it be owned and used, how should it be governed, what kind of stake should people have in it?' Other countries in Europe had that debate 150 or 200 years ago".
He was 80. From 1944 to 1954, Mr. Slater had a number of crucial posts in Europe and Washington as postwar European alliances emerged and as Germany became a modern democracy.
REFORM of the antiquated House of Lords, with its ermine-clad hereditary peers, into something that might be recognised as part of a modern democracy is a cause close to the hearts of many Labour MPs, but is well down the government's priority list.
In fact, the biggest lesson from last week's mass action and celebration is this: If we had our act together as citizens of a modern democracy, SOPA and PIPA would have never been introduced.
The message last week's majority opinion for the Supreme Court seems to send is that women matter only as incubators and care-givers and not as equal citizens in a modern democracy.
From the start, Zapatero identified equality as a defining characteristic of a modern democracy, and it's only partly because he plainly enjoys challenging the macho conservativism that has dominated his country since the days of Ferdinand and Isabella.
