Sentence examples for democratic counterweight from inspiring English sources

Far worse than in Europe, the US needs a social democratic counterweight to market excess.

Strategists in the Pentagon began to see India as a superpower-in-waiting and a democratic counterweight to China.No one doubts that India's economy will keep getting bigger.

But New Labour refused to build any democratic counterweight to the power of finance capital, instead clinging to the "Fabian fallacy" that a benign and omniscient government could fix things from Whitehall.

George Bush saw democratic India as a counterweight to China Indiaa's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, also wanted closer ties.

For instance, Mr. Palmer said, when the news staff arranged for a local Republican strategist to record editorials for newscasts, he told Ms. Michaels to either add a Democratic strategist as a counterweight or scrap the editorial segments altogether.

Since assembly democracy cannot be an option in modern societies (outside Switzerland), direct-democratic institutions are regarded not as a full-scale system alternative to representative democracy but as a supplement to or counterweight within democratic systems with major representative features.

Yet, in Mr Riedel's blunt summary: "America and Pakistan are on opposite sides in the Afghan civil war".America has also invested heavily in building close ties with India, as a kindred democratic spirit and a counterweight to a rising China.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sworn in on Tuesday as head of a cobbled-together coalition that has produced jitters in Washington, is an old hand at using Capitol Hill as a counterweight to Democratic presidents eager for peace process progress.

Without a strong US counterweight, non-democratic states such as Cuba, Algeria, China, and Pakistan joined forces to blunt the Council's work and bully other states.

The trouble is, the Democrats need a counterweight.

Democratic-aligned groups like Senate Majority PAC, House Majority PAC and American Bridge 21st Century -- which were formed to provide Democrats with a counterweight to the conservative super PAC onslaught they faced in 2010 -- saw the largest increases in funding among super PACs focused on federal races.