Sentence examples for circumscribed democracy from inspiring English sources

Its chairman says preparations are already under way for separate entrances, quarters and screened seating areas for female members (who will, of course, have to be chauffeured there).Yet even such grudging moves towards highly circumscribed democracy keep being undermined by shifts in the other direction.

The American Muslim community will fight for and achieve recognition in our still circumscribed democracy, like our African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American compatriots before us.

That is not just because almost any political change in Myanmar would mark an improvement; it is also because the election will create new, partially representative, institutions, and sometimes the forms of even heavily circumscribed democracy take on a life of their own.

They are attempts to circumscribe democracy on behalf of corporate power.

Both the search for the truth and the right to vote are of paramount importance, but they are circumscribed by a higher, overarching concern the general welfare of our democracy.... Inherent in the law are the basic concepts of fairness, reliability, and predictability; and the constitutional safeguards of due process and equal protection were designed to promote these interests.

The intimacy is circumscribed.

Pizza deliveries are circumscribed.

"There's nothing circumscribed here".

But their activism was circumscribed.

And yet theirs was a world circumscribed.

That responsibility cannot be circumscribed by statute".