Sentence examples for excessively democratic from inspiring English sources

Those who decried the alleged "paralysis in decision-making" under Modi's excessively democratic, consultative and consensual predecessor are now faced with a different kind of paralysis, as files pile up in Modi's office, the only place where decisions are made.

"So not excessively excessive.

Yet the procedures in place for choosing that government are insufficiently democratic and excessively complex.

Despite the economic similarities between the two approaches, I expect Republicans and Democrats to continue to differentiate their policies excessively, with Republicans arousing taxpayers over Democratic plans to raise taxes and Democrats alarming beneficiaries about imminent cuts in important social programs.

Such a gesture was deemed excessively dramatic by the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.

Still other critics claim that public justification is too burdensome because it implies an unrealistic and excessively high-minded view of democratic politics due to how it restricts public discourse.

The economy is excessively dependent on its energy sector; democratic development has taken a very authoritarian form; and the new plutocrats get richer while the poor, after a few years when average living standards rose, are again becoming poorer.

You might even argue that in this age of instant celebrity — in which fame for its own sake is regarded as both a feasible career choice and a democratic right — the lives of the excessively famous are more relevant than those of struggling sample-kit schleppers like Willy Loman.

Nixon and Kissinger were clearly not burdened with an excessively moralistic view of foreign policy, but many postwar Administrations, Democratic as well as Republican, violated American ideals of democracy and human rights while pursuing what they saw — mostly wrongly — as national interests.

He said the military was getting excessively involved in civil affairs, stopping the country from being democratic and inviting international criticism.

George W. Bush used "free speech zones" excessively during his first term as president and both the Democratic and Republican parties have used them at various conventions to mute any and all criticism of their policies.