Sentence examples for claim democracy from inspiring English sources

Arshad said Emirati authorities are "trying to ensure that people don't rise up and claim democracy and their human rights", and that they have chosen to do so with a "crackdown on a multilevel surface".

"In our democracy, we would never punish a person for owning a Koran," Mr. Bush said, taking aim at those who, he said, claim democracy and Islam are incompatible.

Honourable Turkish nation, claim democracy and peace: I am calling you to the streets against this action of a narrow cadre that has fallen against the Turkish nation.

Shirley Williams, rising above party politics, claimed democracy had been put up for sale.

Posters claiming democracy "violates the right of Allah" were spotted in Cardiff at the weekend as part of what seemed to be a grassroots campaign called #DontVote4ManMadeLaw.

This is the fact which should be applauded and praised by the West, Europe in particular, who are consistently claiming democracy as a European value.

Under the auspices of a régime d'exception (the equivalent of a state of emergency), Mobutu assumed sweeping, almost absolute, power for five years after which, he claimed, democracy would be restored.

They give the lie to the misleading claim that democracy is somehow incompatible with Arab culture.

Some British and American diplomats claim that democracy is the solution to Saudi Arabia's problems.

Authoritarians often claim that democracy impedes development and that only a firm hand can transform a nation.

Unequal turnout matters because it threatens the central claim of democracy that every view should count equally.