Sentence examples for flawed democracy from inspiring English sources

Did toppling a dictator and nursing a fledgling if flawed democracy make a difference?

But the sense of a vibrant, if flawed, democracy was tempered by Taliban attacks throughout the campaigning.

Since the economic reforms of 1991, India has lifted more people out of poverty than at any time in its history while remaining a vigorous, if flawed democracy.

Speculating about what a candidate might do if he loses is a strange exercise, and one that should have no place in a consolidated and stable democracy, if flawed, democracy like ours.

A flawed democracy has failed to deliver.

Ukraine's flawed democracy and half-hearted independence could both be in jeopardy.

The clear trend has been for authoritarian regimes to be replaced by messy, flawed democracies.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual democracy index ranks only one African country, Mauritius, as a "full" democracy, though it uses tough criteria that count countries like much-praised Botswana as "flawed" democracies.

Since the end of World War II, there have been roughly 50 major revolutions that have either toppled autocratic regimes or led to significant political reform in "flawed" democracies.

Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues may be flawed, but democracy trusts in the power to elect, appoint and, if need be, remove.

Democracy in itself is flawed, in that democracy, without the inviolability of a strong constitution, is meaningless.