Sentence examples for describe democracy from inspiring English sources

Who else would describe democracy as a "squinting anus... and I want to fuck it wide open"?

The Ministry of Defence and the leader of the early working group for the FD implementation describe democracy as an issue of low relevance in relation to the FD.

Some fans as well as critics describe "Democracy Now!" as progressive, but Ms. Goodman rejects that label and prefers to call it a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves".

In his most famous essay, "Democracy Is a Good Thing," he made an impassioned argument for the inevitability of direct elections in China, describing democracy as "the best political system for humankind".

When it comes to fundamentalism, Mr Erdogan has form: he was briefly jailed in 1998 for reading an Islamist poem in public and he once described democracy as a train from which to disembark on reaching one's destination.

The doubts that many in Turkey felt towards him concerned his intentions; the previous year he had caused outrage by describing democracy as a "tram... it goes as far as we want it to go, and then we get off".

"But he had shunned Istanbul's large Western diplomatic and journalist community, forbidden alcohol at all facilities owned by the municipality, cited the Koran as his sole reference and once famously described democracy as a vehicle which one rides as far as one's destination before alighting".

Indeed, US historian William Blum in a recent book describes democracy as a Western imposition on Africa - "America's deadliest export" and foreign policy tool.

Winston Churchill, having been defeated in an election, famously described democracy as "the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time".

Benjamin Franklin is said to have once described democracy as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Crowley described democracy as an "imbecile and nauseating cult of weakness", and commented that The Book of the Law proclaimed that "there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the 'lone wolf' and the herd".