Sentence examples for fund for democracy from inspiring English sources

"The Bush administration, for its part, by approving a fund for democracy assistance in Iran, which has in fact been largely spent on official institutions and media affiliated with the U.S. government, has made it easy for the Iranian regime to describe its opponents as mercenaries of the U.S. and to crush them with impunity," Mr. Ganji wrote.

In its first year, the Obama administration cut funding for democracy and governance programming in Egypt by more than half, from $50 million in 2008 to $20 million in 2009 (Congress later appropriated another $5 million).

He notes that the Bush administration slashed economic aid to Egypt in the 2009 budget but kept the funding for democracy and governance programs constant, while Obama cut funding to those programs in an effort to make the cuts more proportional and under pressure from the American embassy in Cairo.

Under George W. Bush, the law's provisions were applied with increasing alacrity, and funding for democracy-promotion programs, like the one that Gross had been hired for, grew almost without restraint.

These include a "peace-building commission" for war-torn countries, a new human-rights council that does not let countries like Libya and Sudan (as now) become members, a fund for promoting democracy and a definition of terrorism that would more tightly bind states to fight it.

Among the charges that the military court found Mr. Ibrahim guilty of were receipt of foreign funds for pro-democracy activities.

The E.E.D., which I write about in my latest Letter from Europe, will become a new and much-needed source of funding for pro-democracy individuals and groups in Europe's eastern and southern neighborhoods.

A global financier, political activist and philanthropist, George Soros is the founder of one of the world's first hedge funds and an advocate for democracy around the world.

Its Broader Middle East and North Africa initiative to promote democracy in the Middle East through high-profile rhetorical support for democracy and funding for local democratic organizations was originally conceived as a way of capitalizing on the momentum gained from a successful Iraqi transition to democracy.

"The decision to cut public funding for opposition parties by 19% is bad news for democracy.

He said in Deauville that increasing funds for projects promoting democracy and economic reforms was in Britain's self-interest:What I'd say to everybody about the issue of overseas aid and the money that will be pledged at this summit is that there is a real case for saying, if we can secure greater democracy and freedom in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, that is good for us back at home.