Sentence examples for federal democracies from inspiring English sources

Both are continent-sized countries in the western hemisphere with federal democracies in which state governments have considerable power.

Even in established federal democracies (e.g., Canada, Germany, and the United States), the exact distribution of powers between levels of government is a matter of constant dispute between central and subnational governments.

"It will lay the foundation for federal democracy in Iraq.

Such a retreat before federal democracy takes root would set the stage for an Iraqi civil war.

The chancellor was inviting the sort of discussion of subsidiarity that is the bratwurst and apples of Germany's federal democracy.

Its roots are far deeper than 20th-century ideologies, drawing upon Aristotle and Catholic social thought every bit as much as the English commonwealth tradition of federal democracy.

Britain is a small place with a strong central government; India is a sprawling federal democracy, which places limits on how much the administration in New Delhi can do.

Britain is not a federal democracy, so the Lords would have no separate interest to balance against the will of the Commons.

Iraq may have a pluralistic kind of federal democracy, with all groups, especially Kurds and Sunnis, represented in a broad government.

And once the cruel fist of Saddam is replaced by a more enlightened leadership, Iraq's talented, educated people will slowly produce a federal democracy.

Iraq is far from a fully-fledged federal democracy, but neither does it conform to Steele's tendentious depiction of a project that lies in ruins.