Sentence examples for enfranchised citizens from inspiring English sources

In the process, diplomats worry, the actions of the United States could even nudge the Arab Spring toward radicalism by angering newly enfranchised citizens of democratic nations.

Will the newly enfranchised citizens invest wisely?

Newly enfranchised citizens viewed government and the official political realm with a degree of suspicion just as they dismissed the communist governments as the playthings of the nomenklatura.

But when that promise appeared to be broken -- and the old elite either regained political office through elections or increased their material wealth through privatization -- the newly enfranchised citizens of East-Central Europe grew angry, even if their own material position improved.

It cannot be constructed without enfranchised citizens, intelligent, risk-taking consumers and equally intelligent, reflexive, creative employees.

While dictating terms in the form of a €240bn bailout and a swingeing austerity programme, Greece's new masters forgot that Athens, home of the polis, the original democratic city state of enfranchised citizens, had not lost its power of speech.

Although there are many different national voting systems (majority rule, proportional representation, etc)., the basic idea is that each enfranchised citizen of the state has one vote at the ballot box and can thus freely choose their preferred representative, leader, or party.

In 1851, it fell to the coup d'état of "the people's prince," Louis Bonaparte, who had been democratically elected President of France by five and a half million newly enfranchised (male) citizens, including peasants and workers.

The Internet — by allowing users to watch entire debates whenever they want, wherever they like — in theory reverses the process: the Web, and cable television, give voters easier, faster access to primary material, re-enfranchising those citizens who complain about media bias or conspiratorial editing and prefer do-it-yourself reportage to network news reports or wrap-ups on CNN wrap-ups.

The literature on external voting further comprises a growing number of research studies, which question the why and how States enfranchise their citizens abroad, and which explore the latter's voting behaviour and voting practices.

Between the two, it is the UAE that has most successfully tied economic growth to social development and counter-extremism -- through a purge of Islamists from schools and mosques, education for the rule of law, the liberalization of media, and proactive measures to enfranchise its citizens.