Sentence examples for democracies as from inspiring English sources

Today nearly all western democracies, as well as dozens of other countries, have abandoned capital punishment.

It co-operates with democracies as much as with authoritarian regimes.

However, as writer Fareed Zakaria warned aptly, there can well be illiberal democracies as well liberal ones.

In all the big democracies (as well as elsewhere) the three Fs have played their part in creating a mood of dissatisfaction.

He singled out the role of money in influencing policy in developed democracies as "terrifying" and bemoaned the apathy of citizens.

If data-mining without legal authority or explicit consent is wrong for search engines and social networks, it's wrong for the governments of great democracies as well.

In an article in the newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Mr. Westerwelle wrote that Germany had "a historic responsibility for the people of Israel" and underscored the similarities between the countries as democracies as well as the history between their peoples.

This could be Gandhi; it is actually Václav Havel, in his early essay "Politics and Conscience," describing the political consequences of the desacralized world — the loss of the human scale in Western democracies as well as in Communist dictatorships.

Since Western democracies as well as Communist dictatorships had suffered a devastating loss of the human scale, it mattered little that free markets were more efficient than Communist economies.

Globalisation has everywhere rapidly weakened older forms of authority, in Europe's social democracies as well as Arab despotisms, and thrown up an array of unpredictable new international actors, from Chinese irredentists and cyberhackers to Syriza and Boko Haram.

British withdrawal from the convention would set a terrible example to Europe's pseudo-democracies as well as staining the UK's good reputation for upholding the rule of law.