Sentence examples for beginning of democracy from inspiring English sources

He said that Mr. Selebi was the highest-ranking official to be jailed for corruption since the beginning of democracy here.

The people of Nkandla, 20 years after the beginning of democracy, are still left behind in terms of the provision of services required.

As a Kurdish academic said to me in Iraq last week, "From Shakespeare, we learn that everyone is important, whether the Messenger or the Queen, whether the Second Gentleman or Juliet; and that is the beginning of democracy".

Sadly, the occupation authorities seem reluctant to recognize this ground-up beginning of democracy and have been obstructing the Iraqis' efforts to get their country back on its own feet.

But plenty of locals seemed to shun the polls, some complaining that they lived under an army of occupation".But you have to start somewhere and we hope this will be the beginning of democracy here in Jaffna again," says Sarojini Yogeswaran, who was voted in as the mayor of Jaffna.

Nineteen years after the beginning of multiracial democracy in South Africa, the Born Frees — the first generation of the so-called rainbow nation — have come of age.

The election marked the first American transfer of power from one party to another and "the beginning of our democracy," as Mr. Mann says.

This is what happened at the beginning of our democracy, when all political prisoners were given their freedom, even those who had committed murder.

By Elissa Curtis June 10 , 2013Nineteen years after the beginning of multiracial democracy in South Africa, the Born Frees — the first generation of the so-called rainbow nation — have come of age.

The death of Eugène Terre'Blanche, the leader of the militant white separatist group known as the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, seemed an ominous sign that the era of racial harmony that began in 1994 with the end of apartheid and the beginning of nonracial democracy was in peril.

The campaign is Mitt Romney vs. Hillary Clinton in our quest in this country for visual perfection, hmm?" Paul Costello, who was an aide to Rosalynn Carter and Kitty Dukakis, calls this "the snake belly of the campaign," and notes drily: "We've been staring at aging white men from the beginning of the democracy".