"For Burma to gain democracy without Aung San Suu Kyi is impossible," U Pyinya Zawta told the Huffington Post through a translator.
"Which direction does the village take?" One persisting hope of foreign and Chinese monitors is that as experience is gained with democracy at the bottom, similar elections will be required at the far more significant level of the township, where there is real authority over sensitive issues like taxes and land use.
Not enough is gained in democracy to justify entering the slippery slope involved in limiting the freedom of expression, even of oligarchs.
In Baghdad and the South, long-oppressed Shiites -- 60percentt of Iraq's population -- have the most to gain from democracy and reconstruction.
It can be a tool to gain knowledge, democracy, for participation and sharing ideas".
Like the convergent flows of a tsunami, the waves of crowds calling for democracy gained momentum in Tunis's November 7 Square and Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Reich arrived in New York City in 1939, exactly thirty years after Freud first visited Manhattan, and, in the postwar era, his assertion that a vibrant sexuality was a precondition for a vibrant democracy gained momentum.
The protestors included two former presidents--leftist Aleksander Kwasniewski and centrist Bronislaw Komorowski--who sought to remind the Polish public of the importance of the freedom and democracy gained on June 4th 1989, in an election that peacefully ousted communist rule.
However, by the 1980s reform efforts in established democracies gained momentum, emphasizing decentralization and market-based decision making and, in some instances, even the replacement of full-time civil servants with managers on contract.
Lasting peace is gained as justice and democracy advance.
