Sentence examples for democratizing forces from inspiring English sources

While Qaddafi represses the democratizing forces from the left, he is far more brutal with the Islamist ones on the right.

But since 2008, when Taiwan began to stabilize its once volatile relations with China, it has become an even greater asset for the United States — and an inspiration for democratizing forces in mainland China.

When the mode of fighting shifted to action-at-a-distance weapons like bows and guns, the old elites had to bow to the central authority of kings, who, in turn, were undone by the democratizing forces unleashed by new mass armies.

She rose from anonymity and domestic routine to be at the center of praise from democratizing forces and insults from the official press.

This second kind of innovations has been one of the great democratizing forces of the age.

"And Americans are used to talking about the Internet as a democratizing force.

"For figurative painters, Facebook has been a democratizing force, and it has been pivotal for my career," he said.

At the turn of the last century, the influential philosopher John Dewey saw education as a democratizing force not just in its social consequences but in its very process.

But digital music making, which claims to put the means of musical production into the hands of the many, isn't the democratizing force it purports to be.

His extreme foregrounding of characters avoids the democratizing force of backstory — of a complex web of personal traits that distinguishes individuals by way of their experiences, desires, and idiosyncrasies.

In tennis, just three men — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic — have won 29 of the last 30 Grand Slam singles titles in an era where globalization has created greater depth but has not yet been a democratizing force at the top.