Sentence examples for expectations of democracy from inspiring English sources

And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

"Economic freedom creates habits of liberty, and habits of liberty create expectations of democracy," President George W. Bush confidently declared in 2000, speaking specifically of China.

Islamic radicalism has spread in the Muslim north, in the vacuum left by years of military misrule and the unfulfilled expectations of democracy.

What is clear is that Iraqis' expectations of a reliable supply of electricity and other services, like their expectations of democracy itself, have exceeded what either Americans or the country's quarrelling politicians have so far been able to meet.

Currently, the concept is used more extensively to refer to a failure to meet public expectations of democracy.

While expectations of a transitional democracy in a state rife with militancy must be tempered by reality, Pakistan needs more living heroes, not dead ones.

"For happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance... .. To the delegates of countries nervous about Americans' expectations of ever-progressing democracy in the aftermath of last year's Arab Spring, President Obama was echoing, in so many words, what Washington declaimed when he called for respect for every religion.

One effect of the crackdown was to underscore President Obama's failure to close the gap in expectations between his talk of democracy during his historic speech in Cairo in 2009 and his actions on the ground.

The coming of democracy raised expectations that no president could have satisfied - and nothing in Morsi's life as a backroom Brotherhood activist equipped him for the task.

While the Arab Spring raised hopes for a new era of democracy, those expectations have long since dulled in Egypt, with the same generals who held power before the revolution back in charge.

But they also angrily complain that their expectations -- of aid and compensation, of democracy and security -- remain unmet.