Sentence examples for democratic right to elect from inspiring English sources

It's their democratic right to elect a cleaned-up fascist; it's ours – by treaty – to suspend Austria from the EU.

The Greeks have a democratic right to elect a leader who wants to tear up this agreement; just as Germans, Dutch, Finns and others have a right to elect governments that insist on such deals being adhered to.

It is imperative that the Legislature pass legislation before its selection of a replacement to allow the public to fulfill its constitutional and democratic right to elect this important state official.

Mahrouf Zakir, secretary general of the Tourism Employees Association of the Maldives, which represents 10,000 workers on luxury resorts in the Indian Ocean archipelago, said members wanted "to exercise their democratic right to elect a president".

Your staff and others knew that the water in the Flint River was poison -- but you decided that taking over the city and "cutting costs" to "balance the budget" was more important than the people's health (not to mention their democratic rights to elect their own leaders).

More predictably China has endorsed the election.Unless Mr Khamenei dramatically changes heart or protests resume on an irresistible scale, reform-minded Iranians may again have to resign themselves to living without the limited democratic freedoms, including the right to elect a president from an albeit vetted field, that they had hoped to build on.

Americans treasure their democratic rights, none more than the right to elect their leaders.

Yet New Yorkers still lacked the right to elect their own mayor; only in 1834 did Jacksonian Cornelius Lawrence initiate democratic control, which subsequently has been characteristic of the metropolis.

3 Hong Kong Vote Delayed Chinese officials announced that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader, and for more than 12 years to have the right to elect the entire legislature directly.

The people were given the right to elect House members.

The plebeians demanded the right to elect their own officials.