The list of frequent Democratic phrases, for example, included "estate tax".
One hears few liberal Democratic phrases that are repeated with any regularity.
With less than one month to go before Russians vote in an election that is almost certain to be won by Acting President Vladimir V. Putin, some of the liberals who hailed his rise are voicing fears that there may be authoritarian instincts lurking beneath Mr Putin's well-turned democratic phrases.
That was when the Democratic attack phrase, with its implicit charge of racism, attained its losing connotation.
They know that many voters in Scotland will read the phrase "democratic will of the British people" and hear "democratic will of the English people".
The phrase "democratic deficit" is now heard often in discussion of Europe.
They were neither innocents nor purists — unlike, for example, Adlai Stevenson, who, in his acceptance speech at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, called political advertising "the ultimate indignity to the democratic process" (a phrase quoted by Greenberg).
Among young activists in the 1980s — when I was committed to many of the same causes as Mr. de Blasio — the phrase democratic socialism signaled the thinking of a person who yearned for fundamental social change, but who especially identified with the humane and calm agendas of the labor parties of Europe and Latin America.
Confusion also stems from the fact that Sanders uses the phrase "democratic socialist" partly to stress his belief that change must come through the ballot box, but also because, in continental Europe at least, he would probably be known as a social democrat, a label that does not easily translate to the US.
In a phrase, Democratic voters have become more liberal.
