Sentence examples for first world democracies from inspiring English sources

Among First World democracies, these programs were at first somewhat moderated by the need for popular support.

Perhaps we tech leaders in the United States need to think about the fact that in opposing such measures, we're standing against our fellow First World democracies and standing with the authoritarian bogeyman of China's one-party state.

Just as Exxon jousts with Greenpeace and SeaWorld with PETA, first world democracies must wise up and loosen up in the face of smaller but savvier social warriors.

We were stunned that a supposedly first world democracy would operate that way.

Putman and Campbell ignore the transnational sociological fact that every single First World democracy has seen swift and dramatic declines in religiosity in recent decades.

In 1971 India and the U.S.S.R. concluded a 20-year Treaty of Peace and Friendship and Cooperation, an indication of how much the United States (not to mention Britain) had lost touch with the once model Third World democracy.

(Never mind that the cost of an "affordable" home in London is roughly the same as you'd need to fund the overthrow of a small Third World democracy).

A vast majority of third-world democracies today are former British colonies.

(What happens when the league imposes sanctions on, say, Syria, and only Israel, of all the countries in the region, gets to vote?) And finally, most third-world democracies are profoundly reluctant to meddle in neighbors' affairs, as the tepid response of President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to Mugabe's depredations has made all too plain.

In the US, the most violent first-world democracy, it fell from 10 per 100,000 in 1991 to 5.5 in 2000 and then to four in 2014.

Even in the US, the archetypal first-world democracy, lawmakers in Arizona have just passed a bill allowing businesses to refuse – on religious grounds – to serve homosexuals.