Sentence examples for democratic arena from inspiring English sources

In the marketplace that we call the democratic arena, it will surely be the great simplifiers who continue to set the terms of the debate.

"Of course Jacques Chirac is our adversary in the democratic arena, but Jean-Marie Le Pen is a danger for the republic... we will vote Chirac".

SOME people believe that a lot of public business is done not in the bright light of the democratic arena but out of sight, perhaps even in dark recesses.

Rather, we should allow Islamists (though not terrorists) to compete in the democratic arena and club them there (with democratic clubs, I hasten to add, in case some Arab police chief is reading this).

But the party of Fitt, Hume, Mallon and McDonnell can create a new space for itself as the one that holds the administration to account, that offers people of all creeds an alternative, that turns the Stormont parliament into a truly democratic arena with a large and viable opposition bloc.

On his return from London, Reynolds told the Irish parliament, the Dáil: "The purpose of this joint declaration is to help remove conflicts of interest, and fundamental differences in the sense of identity, out of the arena of violence, and to place them purely in the political and democratic arena".

Once you enter the democratic political arena on a religious platform, your beliefs are no longer a private matter but up for legitimate attack.

The weapons buyout program was part of a larger agreement earlier this month with Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric, to disarm his militia and coax him toward the democratic political arena.

If it holds, the agreement would appear to clear the way for Mr. Sadr to take his popular movement into the democratic political arena, something he and his aides have been telling Iraqi leaders for weeks they are intending to do.

Because of the unusually early activity from a Democratic field that may attract as many as 10 candidates, the pressure is mounting on Mr. Gore to re-enter the public arena sooner than he had planned.

Once home to the Lakers and L.A.'s first Democratic Convention, this arena is getting torn down with little fanfare.