Sentence examples for democratic checks from inspiring English sources

Somehow America's famous apparatus of democratic checks and balances did not apply to the monetary priesthood.

The lack of sufficient democratic checks and balances in all three has undermined faith in elections and helped to create the conditions for civil unrest.

Military needs are also no excuse for weakening important democratic checks on the executive, as Mr. Uribe and some of his advisers have suggested.

But it is an extension of the authoritarian model of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who worked to weaken democratic checks and balances during his five-year tenure.

The bill, combined with the absence of democratic checks and balances in our system, would roll back basic freedoms, including religious freedom, press freedom and freedom of association.

When oil revenues flood a nation that has a weak system of democratic checks and balances, dysfunctional politics and economics ensue.

President Abbas's dissolution of parliament in 2007 spared him the inconvenience of democratic checks-and-balances and awkward votes of no-confidence.But the most severe attacks came from the close circle around Mr Abbas, who constantly chipped away at his powers.

It is doing so without any democratic check or control, and its people must stop it.

The body also serves as a democratic check on other EU institutions.

"Some democratic check against absolute judicial power is needed," he wrote on the Guardian law website.

It's not infallible, but it is an essential democratic check.