Sentence examples for democratic opening from inspiring English sources
She and her party, the NLD, have been the most obvious beneficiaries of Myanmar's democratic opening.
The economic restructuring intersected with democratic opening in many countries, creating unforeseen new pressures.
The prospects for a democratic opening could best be judged in the streets of Havana after his speech.
The spiralling economic situation and the repressive political atmosphere of the late Ahmadinejad era disappointed hopes of a democratic opening.
Growing numbers are willing to say that Islam is threatened more by its own demons than by the West's armies.An Arab democratic opening will be long and tortuous.
The moderate opposition's attempt in 1962 to force a democratic opening in order to enter the European Economic Community EECC) was dismissed by the regime as treason.
He tried to create democratic openings without challenging the legal structure of the state.
The Kremlin is skeptical about democratic openings on its borders, such as the 2003 Rose revolution in Georgia and the one a year later in Ukraine.
Fouad al-Farhan, once jailed briefly for his blog critical of the monarchy, led a slate of young Saudis from the cosmopolitan commercial capital of Jidda, determined to run in this year's municipal elections to use whatever democratic openings they might afford for change.
But Mr. Erian also said that it was now time for Israel to understand the implications of the democratic openings of the Arab Spring — "the biggest change in the Arab world's history" — which have given new voice to Arab anger at Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
In their 2007 National Interest article entitled, "Arab Spring Fever," Nathan J. Brown and Amr Hamzawy aptly observed that the unusual protests in the streets of the Middle East from 2005-2007 only indicated that, "dreams of democratic openings, competitive elections, the rule of law and wider political freedoms have captured the imagination of clear majorities in the Arab world".
