Sentence examples for democratic basis from inspiring English sources

He said, "It has no democratic basis whatsoever.

The first election on a nationally democratic basis was conducted in 1970.

But if he wins, he's won it by our democratic basis and we'll work with him," he said.

The most important decisions - those that decide the future of the planet - are not made on a democratic basis.

The same month, Talleyrand succeeded in having the Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted, which, without papal approval, completely reorganized the French church on a democratic basis.

By the 1950s, however, a reforming minority within the CFTC wanted to break all confessional ties and reshape the federation on a social democratic basis.

All had bicameral legislatures, with ministers responsible to the lower houses, which by 1860, except in Tasmania, were elected on a near-democratic basis (all adult non-Aboriginal men were eligible to vote).

This was organised on a democratic centralist basis, with component parties required to fight for policies adopted by the body as a whole.

This week Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, boss of Ferrari and a former leader of Confindustria, the employers' federation, launched another movement to furnish Mr Monti with a "democratic and electoral basis".

The Potsdam Conference's Declaration on Germany stated, "It is the intention of the Allies that the German people be given the opportunity to prepare for the eventual reconstruction of their life on a democratic and peaceful basis".

I will be standing for the presidency of the European commission on behalf of the European Left party, and that decision is motivated by our desire to reunite Europe and rebuild it on a democratic and progressive basis.