Sentence examples for exercise democratic from inspiring English sources

But consumers are not citizens, and markets cannot exercise democratic sovereignty.

"We must enrich the forms of democracy, make democratic procedures complete, expand citizen's orderly political participation, and ensure that the people can exercise democratic elections, democratic decision-making, democratic administration and democratic scrutiny," Mr. Hu said.

In October, President Hu Jintao gave a long-awaited speech on political change, vaguely calling for more democracy and saying the Communist Party must "ensure that the people can exercise democratic elections".

Thus the logic of this development would also imply that national citizens, who have to accept the redistribution of burdens across national borders, would also want to exercise democratic influence in their role as European citizens over what their heads of government negotiate or agree upon in a legal grey area.

As Frederick Whelan puts it, "democracy requires that people be divided into peoples (each people hopefully enjoying its own democratic institutions), with each unit distinguishing between its own citizens understood in a political sense as those eligible to exercise democratic political rights here—and others, who are regarded as aliens here, although (hopefully) citizens somewhere else".

The public is entitled to view this evidence to satisfy itself of the fairness of the outcome of this proceeding and to exercise democratic oversight of its Government".

They are closely involved in the work of committees which they support in shaping legislation on and exercising democratic scrutiny over EU policies.

Turnout was lower than in 2005 but most Iraqis were determined to exercise their democratic rights.

They can't be trusted to exercise their democratic rights with the proper rationality.

Why not allow the people to exercise their democratic right and judge the contest? asks Social Democrat Sachs.

If you don't exercise your democratic right to punish politicians, then they will punish you.