Sentence examples for collapse of democratic from inspiring English sources

A mighty network of corrupt practices has been laid over all of our countries – and the collapse of democratic checks and balances, due in part to our receding sovereignty, has helped hide it from public view.

But many have disagreed: the European Union placed him last year on a list of Zimbabwean officials whose overseas assets were to be frozen and their foreign travel banned as punishment for the collapse of democratic rule in their country.

The possibility of a collapse of democratic politics, or at least a hiatus, a temporary suspension of certain inconveniences such as transparency, accountability and the rule of law, has hung in the air since 9/11.

In an alarming collapse of democratic control, a week prior to G20 the police illegally ignored the decision of Germany's highest court to allow demonstrators to establish a camp in the city.

Far be it from me to alarm anyone over the course of a long essay about the collapse of democratic politics, but it is hard to avoid the conclusion that a perfect storm is brewing.

Meanwhile war and genocide in Rwanda contributed to the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s.

It assumed the mantle of what has been called "social unionism"—in stark contrast to the political marginalization of the AFL CIO that followed the collapse of the Democratic New Deal coalition in the late 1960s.

This is not the total collapse of liberal democratic capitalism which some feared at the dramatic meeting here in early 2009, but nor is it the great reform of western capitalism, then the devout hope of Davos.

The collapse of the Democratic leadership on FISA was thus a sheer political calculation; yet the panic of the reversal ran ahead of any visible threat.

What it did was avert the collapse of confidence in Democratic governance that the failure of the president's initiative would have engendered.

The end of the cold war only deepened this conviction; after the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic capitalism seemed the only game in town.