Sentence examples for functioning of democracies from inspiring English sources
"The bank is insisting on its usual mantra, that more privatisations and liberalisation are the way to create a middle class that will in turn provide the support needed for the functioning of democracies," says Mark Fodor, executive director of the monitoring organisation CEE Bankwatch.
From the early 1990s onwards, to the numerous studies on the economic, sociological, organisational and demographic role of cities in the development of contemporary democracies, just as many papers were added on the political and institutional importance exerted by cities and local governments in the functioning of democracies (Bagnasco and Le Galès 2000; Lascoumes and Le Galès 2004).
"Functioning of democracy requires a good opposition.
In the end, this corrodes the functioning of democracy itself.
And the publishers also raise a wider concern about "the impact on media plurality and the functioning of democracy".
The package amounts to a straightforward attack on freedom of speech and democracy – in the name of the "functioning of democracy".
And voting "no" to a record of failure is more important to the functioning of democracy than voting "yes" to any number of promises about the future.
The definition of harmful is to include a risk of public disorder, a risk of harassment, alarm or distress or creating a "threat to the functioning of democracy".
The definition of harmful is to include a risk of public disorder or even a risk of harassment, alarm or distress or the vague-sounding "threat to the functioning of democracy".
While a lot of news coverage has used a partisan framework to address the new voter restrictions ("Stricter Voting Laws Carve Latest Partisan Divide," front page, Sept. 26), what's really at stake is the fundamental functioning of democracy.
"Subversion" for MI5 was the big tent of the surveillance state, extending to dissenting activities whose legality was not in question and that were (and are) crucial to the functioning of democracy.
