Sentence examples for democratic breakthrough from inspiring English sources

Some credit for Mexico's democratic breakthrough (editorial, July 4) should be given to President Clinton.

He is the author of numerous articles and is co-authoring a book on democratic breakthrough with Michael McFaul.

C4 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A12-13 EdiTheials: Thighestest honor; Mexico's democratic breakthrough; Washington reneges on a bargain.

A democratic breakthrough requires a more fundamental constitutional redesign, in which the contending sides compete for power in a European-style parliamentary system.

The dream that the 1994 democratic breakthrough would put an end to the poverty and alienation of black people has yet to become a reality for all.

The subject is specifically the set of factors that produce democratic breakthrough (in this case within Serbia), factors that may be quite different from those that contribute to other kinds of democratic change.

The wave of democratic electoral revolutions in the Eastern Europe and post-Communist Eurasia revived one of the most appealing and at the same time disputable arguments in the theory of democratization: that is, that successful democratic breakthroughs in one of several places help to shape the timing and dynamic of transformation in others, where the regime change has yet to occur.

It is true that historically economic crises and difficulties have also been associated with democratic breakthroughs, such as the sudden collapse of seemingly stable autocratic regimes, as much as with the opposite outcome of increasing authoritarianism.

The second negative trend is that authoritarian states have, unfortunately, learned some of the lessons of democratic breakthroughs of the past decade, particularly the color revolutions that brought down neocommunist autocracies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.

Barack Obama talked about the Maytag plant in his breakthrough Democratic convention speech, and he returned to Galesburg just 18 months ago to tout his economic plans.

Four years ago Democrats Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy Carter, and Michelle Nunn, daughter of former senator Sam Nunn, were heralded as potential breakthrough Democratic candidates in the gubernatorial and Senate races, but both lost.