"We protest at the attacks on WikiLeaks and, in particular, on Julian Assange," they write, adding that the leaks have "assisted democracy in revealing the real views of our governments over a range of issues".
We protest at the attacks on Wikileaks and, in particular, on Julian Assange (Report, 9 December) The leaks have assisted democracy in revealing the real views of our governments over a range of issues which have been kept secret and are now irreversibly in the public domain.
Mr. Obama has promised billions in development aid to assist nascent democracies in Egypt and Tunisia to gain traction, and President Nicolas Sarkozy has emerged as a powerful voice for European economic engagement in the Arab world.
The private foundation is named and modeled after the influential National Endowment for Democracy, which the United States set up in 1984 to assist pro-democracy independent movements like the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
Towards the end of his presidency, he declared: "It was pure expediency [on the part of the West] to call on democratic South Africa to turn its back on Libya and Gaddafi, who had assisted us in obtaining democracy.
Her background – she comes from a well-connected political family in Costa Rica, where her father served as president three times and was credited with leading his country to stable democracy – has assisted her in gaining the confidence of developing countries, while liaising with the rich nations which have often dominated past talks.
I assisted Claire Daviss, a FairVote Democracy Fellow, on this post.
Prominent planning, transportation and environmental consultants assist as real democracy upends a tradition of transit agencies jamming already-hatched plans down taxpayers' throats.
I assisted my colleague Claire Daviss, a FairVote Democracy Fellow, on this piece.
By contrast, the levels of exportation to high-income countries, manufacturing economic activities, export intensity, female education, GDP per capita, democracy, health services, physician density, assisted birth delivery, immunisation coverage, access to safe water, CO2 emissions and the ecological footprints were lower in sub-Saharan Africa than those in other regions.
Oh, for the good old days ― when the CIA regularly assisted military coups d'états in foreign democracies.
