Sentence examples for frail democracy from inspiring English sources

It has at times provided an anchor for Thailand's frail democracy.

The country desperately needs a firmer hand, though not of the kind that would spike its frail democracy.

There is more juice than official figures reveal.Thailand's frail democracy has always lacked an effective system of checks and balances.

Lebanon provided the perfect opening: a frail democracy recovering from civil war, with parties and lingering militias primarily organized by religion.

In 2011 the AL had junked a constitutional mechanism that was intended to rescue the country's frail democracy from its viciously confrontational two-party politics: an unelected caretaker administration to oversee elections.

Second, American and Japanese diplomats have made it clear to politicians on all sides that Thailand's frail democracy and its economic prospects must not be held hostage by an angry minority.The government may now start to enforce its emergency powers in and around Bangkok, to be able to keep the polling stations open come Sunday, February 2nd.

There, frail democracies too often fall victim to corruption, social division, greed and dictatorship.

At any rate, when the Ceausescu regime was toppled in December 1989 Mr Cioaba was judged to be on the right side and served on the Provisional National Council, the country's frail start towards the democracy it achieved only in 1996.

The country may be developing after the war, but democracy still looks frail.

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela, the beloved but increasingly frail hero of South African democracy, remained hospitalized for a second day here on Thursday for what his foundation called "routine tests".

His art has been one long warning that liberal democracy is a frail moment of light surrounded by forests of shadow and evil.