In this way, a democratic, evidence-based demonstration, with expert quality assurance in the background, emerges as perhaps the best way to trigger greater use, rather than reliance on high-profile leadership or on trademarking.
Is the support for a candidate who embraces democratic socialism evidence that the political pendulum's rightward swing over the past four decades is reversing direction?
Others search in vain in China's environmental movement for a democratic vanguard, in evidence during the last days of the Soviet Union.
The administration maintains that Mr. Giuliani's success as a Republican mayor in a heavily Democratic city is evidence that he can work cooperatively.
To invoke the constitution, the Geneva convention or democratic oversight was evidence that you were out of your depth in the new reality.
Supporters of the initiative cite Mr. Obama's success in the Democratic primaries as evidence that preferences based on race are no longer needed.
Her challenge is to present her collaboration with Bloomberg — a potential liability in a Democratic primary — as evidence that she can get things done, without sounding like an entrenched incumbent.
Nor need such synoecizing (if it happened at that time) necessarily have been democratic and thus evidence that the communities in question were following the Athenian model rather than the Spartan oligarchic one.
This has been seized on in the Democratic campaign as evidence that a shrewd decision to husband resources during the summer and make a late advertising splurge at the end is bearing fruit.
During the campaign, he and surrogates complained about voter identity fraud among communities which usually lean Democratic, without presenting evidence and despite regular debunking of such claims by experts.
There is considerable evidence, Democratic campaign aides said, that people are voting for Mr. Kerry even if they do not agree with him on some positions, and even if they have not particularly warmed to this gawky Northeasterner.
