Sentence examples for democratic milestone from inspiring English sources

Next month brings the start of parliamentary elections — the first serious, democratic milestone since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.

But even if Mr. Morsi is declared the official winner later this week, Egypt's first popular presidential election will not have been a democratic milestone.

The timing of the order was also a surprise, she wrote, coming as Pakistan is holding national elections that are regarded as an important democratic milestone.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Campaign season has begun in Pakistan, with elections widely expected by mid-May that, if they proceed peacefully, would represent a democratic milestone in a country plagued by intermittent military rule.

Not only is Mexico celebrating a democratic milestone this week with the inauguration of an opposition president, Vicente Fox (see article); but, thanks in part to its links to the booming United States, Mexico's economy has grown at an annual average rate of 5% since 1996.Brazil's devaluation last year, though chaotic, was successful.

It is the military's -- and thus the current administration's -- lifeline, and a stronger commitment to conditioning the aid on democratic milestones and inclusive governance could moderate the new government's stance towards the opposition.

Among the short-term goals were "meeting political milestones; building democratic institutions; standing up robust security forces to gather intelligence, destroy terrorist networks, and maintain security; and tackling key economic reforms to lay the foundation for a sound economy".

It will be a milestone in the democratic development of this, the world's most populous Muslim country.

Ricardo Kirschbaum, executive editor, Clarin, Argentina   The Snowden affair, one day, will be understood as a historic milestone at which democratic societies began to realize that the political cost of new technologies still needed to be negotiated.

But 2015 is also the anniversary of another important, and far more radical, milestone in British democratic history, writes Luke Foddy.

There is however much to be done before the victory of Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire Democratic Primaries can become the milestone in America's history that it deserves to be.