Sentence examples for flimsy democracy from inspiring English sources
No wonder some argue for Kosovo to be rebuilt under a colonial government, not as a flimsy democracy nor even as a tactfully managed protectorate.
Amid repeated acts of violence against revolutionary demonstrators, and the targeting of Coptic Christians, trade unionists and women who dared to assert their rights to presence in public space, it became clear that despite Mubarak's departure the ancien regime was fighting to preserve as much of his state as possible, with only the flimsiest façade of formal democracy.
In a country where democracy feels as flimsy as a wooden shack, the foreboding was very real.
From January Congress will contain 28 political parties, up from an already unwieldy 22. Ms Rousseff's weak mandate the flimsiest of any government since democracy was restored in 1985 will make it hard to bang heads together.
But it is beyond doubt that his commitment to democracy is now as flimsy as any relativist's: free elections may be good enough for the people of Britain, but the Kazakhs cannot expect to enjoy the same privileges.
EARLIER this month Vietnam's courts handed out long jail sentences to 14 young democracy activists and bloggers accused, on the flimsiest of evidence, of subverting the state.
He justifies his martial rule on flimsy grounds: to protect the country; to prevent international terrorists from threatening world peace; and, incredibly, to build genuine democracy - the same argument he used when he took power eight years ago.
Given Kennedy's flimsy fundamental rights analysis, the dissenters were able to frame opposition to marriage equality as deriving from high-minded ideals like democracy and judicial restraint.
