Sentence examples for democratic privilege from inspiring English sources

New Yorkers have thus been able to enjoy the democratic privilege of observing — and keeping track of — their leaders' comings and goings.

"I suppose the argument would be that by becoming powerful you become more sexually charismatic, and that would be an abuse of democratic privilege the people have conferred on you.

Amid crowds of Indian people heading to the polls on Thursday, the biggest day of the country's general election, the ink used to mark voters' hands to prevent fraud was flashed by many as a badge of universal democratic privilege.

The prominent media lawyer Mark Stephens said: "This sort of assault on democratic privileges is what you would expect to see in a banana republic".

Few of them enjoy democratic privileges even in their own countries.

It doesn't stop them, or indeed the rest of us who haven't enjoyed the liberal-democratic privilege of electing Tony Blair and George Bush, from incarnating, in daily life, the liberal virtues of civility, fair-mindedness and tolerance.

For the many oppressed South Sudanese, it was to be a new era to finally enjoy those economic privileges, democratic rights and civil liberties that they had long been deprived of by Khartoum.

Large numbers of Americans identified democratic citizenship as a privilege of whites alone — a position embraced by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision of 1857.

If the woman is also a commoner, she makes the hereditary monarchy, with all its ancient privileges, look democratic and accessible.

The State Senate dropped thousands of dollars in fines and restored parking and cellphone privileges for Democratic senators who fled the state to block a Republican Congressional redistricting plan.

His campaign is likely to be a monument to what George Will has dubbed a "reactionary liberalism," which defends the design of existing programs and the privileges of Democratic interest groups as doggedly as any monarchist defended the ancien régime.