Sentence examples for because of democracy from inspiring English sources

In India Mr Obama had told parliament that the country had succeeded not in spite of but "because of democracy".

He went on: "India has succeeded, not in spite of democracy; India has succeeded because of democracy".He made the same point in his speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta: "Your achievements demonstrate that democracy and development reinforce one another".

[Dilma Rousseff is] A woman who was the victim of oppression, was imprisoned for three and a half years, who was barbarously tortured, who doesn't today hold the slightest trace of resentment.I am certain that she will respect the principles of democracy as if they were sacred, because she knows that it is because of democracy that I became president and that she is going to be president.

It's because of democracy".

"We are going to continue with these policies because one needs tenacity to reform our country and because the respect of democracy demands that our commitments be fulfilled," Mr. Fillon said in a televised address.

I'm excluding Switzerland because it's not mandatory in the whole country, and North Korea, because the status of democracy there is, let's say, shaky.

To everyone except a dedicated ideologue, it was pretty obvious that we invaded Iraq not because of our love of democracy but because it's maybe the second- or third-largest source of oil in the world, and is right in the middle of the major energy-producing region.

Kiselyov further praised Trump because the concepts of democracy and human rights "are not in his lexicon".

I put it in these terms because the development of democracy in Britain has been a joint English and Scottish venture since the Act of Union in 1707.

"Because the power of democracy depends upon an informed electorate – and a free press".

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states were keen to arm the Syrian revolution – not because they are lovers of democracy and reform, but because they would like to see Assad removed from power.