Sentence examples for democracy to use from inspiring English sources

Democracy, to use the thriller writer Gavin Lyall's phrase, isn't about elections.

But that is the nature of a "boisterous democracy," to use a description applied to both the United States and India by Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister.

The home secretary sidestepped questions about how she felt about Britain becoming the first democracy to use the kind of "deep packet inspection" web monitoring system so far only used in China, Iran and Kazakhstan.

On Monday Condoleezza Rice, on her way to Brussels, told reporters that NATO must "deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's democracy, to use its military capability to damage and in some cases destroy Georgian infrastructure and to try and weaken the Georgian state".

That made me start to wonder where Obama stood on the death penalty – given that McCain has said repeatedly in the past that he is in favour, and what an incoming Obama administration might do in relation to the United States being the last western democracy to use capital punishment.

Australia is the only major democracy to use the same type of AV system as the one being proposed for the UK, but voting is compulsory there.

It's common practice for democracies to use government spending and currency printing as a political instrument.

The United Kingdom is one of the few well-established democracies to use U.S. style plurality, winner-take-all rules to elect all its seats for its national legislature.

On Sept. 11, we still hadn't quite recovered from the hangover of Election Night 2000, in which many news organizations "staged a collective drag race on the crowded highway of democracy" -- to use a phrase from a report commissioned by CNN on that journalistic fiasco of false calls and multiple retractions.

Choosing whether and which democracy rating to use requires a judgment about the underlying concept in question.

The rebels, who first organized a political party, began their movement five years after the country instituted multiparty democracy, vowing to use Mao's strategies of guerrilla warfare to create a "classless and exploitationless society".