Sentence examples for democratic face from inspiring English sources

The Kremlin, however, wants to stoke turnout and to present a democratic face.

There is a fear among some activists that the revolution may only put a democratic face on the old system.

Speaking in La Picota prison in Bogotá last week, Ballesteros told me: "There is no democracy in Colombia, we are confronting a dictatorship with a democratic face".

In disgust, some opposition supporters boycotted the local elections, tipping the balance in certain states".It's a dictatorship with a legal and democratic face," says Pedro Palma, a businessman and economics professor.

In 1990, the Republicans thought they might have a sweep of their own, but the voters gave their fellow Texan George H. W. Bush a Hallmark card with Ann Richards's (Democratic) face on it.

America saw her as the best way of putting a democratic face on a military dictatorship, so it helped broker the agreement that saw her return to Pakistan in October to fight elections due in January.

Most Democrats here find the Democratic face-off a sad state of affairs.

While viewers are expected to watch the third Democratic debate on Saturday night, they are unlikely to be doing so in the droves that tuned into the Republican debates or the Democratic face-off that was held on a weeknight.

I walked through Plaça de La Feixina — a park where a Fascist obelisk that was originally erected in 1948 was recently given a (democratic) face-lift; it is now inscribed with a message honoring those who were victims of war and dictatorship.

In "Familiar Democratic Faces, but New Duties in Kerry Camp" (Sept.

Take a look at those fresh Democratic faces on "The Hill".