Sentence examples for democratic trappings from inspiring English sources

Congress, for all its democratic trappings, has long been richer than a typical collection of 535 Americans.

Questionable as these democratic trappings are, many Chechens seem to want peace.

Mr Morales "has a 99% chance of being a caudillo with democratic trappings," says Walter Guevara, a political analyst.

We see what comes when rulers don democratic trappings but use every trick to avoid relinquishing power.

In his efforts to attach democratic trappings to his dictatorship, he has given the mullahs a lead role in running the country.

Hovering over all these events is the question of why Mr. Putin and others in the Kremlin even bother with the democratic trappings.

Lawrence concludes by proposing to strip away the trappings of democratic rhetoric that exalts the will of the people, to reveal America's "deepest self".

His new costume is a safari suit, his new line peace and the trappings of democratic politics.Mr Prabhakaran's performance at least bodes well for the peace process, which began soon after Sri Lanka elected a new government in December, though his professed conversion to democratic norms is less convincing.

Young people could be more crucial in the presidential race this time around — they played a bigger role than normal in many primary contests, and the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has the trappings of a youth crusade.

Here was an organization that was the nonpareil masters of clandestine intrigue, knows how to keep secrets, and now in a sense, is running the country albeit with the trappings of democratic governance.

Never mind the Stalinist trappings of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.