Though they espoused democratic ideals, they remained aesthetically conservative.
Although the party espouses "democratic socialism" it harbours some groups that seem unsure about democracy.
"In the 1970s, we had a government that espoused democratic socialist ideals and put off tourism," Mr. Issa said.
Largely because the democratic reformers Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais could not unite, no party espousing democratic ideals could get the 5percentt of the vote needed to stay in the Duma.
The CDU's manifesto is a study in vagueness, so it can either couple with Germany's pro-business liberals or with a party that still espouses "democratic socialism .Ms Merkel herself has been fuzzy, hoping to woo voters who like her but not her centre-right party.
By taking the job he is crossing football's house, moving from the temple of the free-market approach to an organisation that espouses collective democratic ownership as its guiding principle.
Therefore, even if national boundaries legitimately delimit political communities whose members share strong ties and obligations, states espousing liberal democratic values have a duty to adopt foreign policies consistent with basic rights.
As diverse as these schools were, the one thing they had in common was that the values they espoused, while admirably democratic and humanistic, didn't seem to me to jibe with the realities of late capitalism.
Mr. Obama, who has called for higher mileage standards and investments in alternative energy, so far has espoused the traditional Democratic view that domestic drilling is not the answer to high prices — a view he affirmed in a new television advertisement that began running Tuesday in four battleground states.
In 1904 Jaurès was cofounder of the newspaper L'Humanité, in which he continued to espouse the principles of democratic socialism.
