Sentence examples for gathering democracy from inspiring English sources

Because Jian is engaged to the professor's daughter — a student in Beijing who writes to him about the gathering democracy protests there — he is asked to keep his teacher company in the afternoons.

The really awkward issue for the leaders of the seven rich democracies gathering in St Petersburg concerns their host: how to live with a strong, but increasingly undemocratic, Russia.Since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Russia has in many ways been a remarkable success.

Robert Gates, a former U.S. defence secretary and director of central intelligence, warned last week at a Foundation for the Defense of Democracies gathering on Qatar and the Brotherhood that Qatar risked losing its hosting of U.S. forces if it failed to revise its policies.

Until 1975, the nation's remedy for the tension between intelligence gathering and democracy was to trust the spymasters and hope for the best.

"We are lots of writers gathering together and fighting for democracy.

Equally dramatic is the destruction of democracy that has been gathering pace.

When the government rejected their requests for his rehabilitation, Beijing students began marching toward and gathering in Tiananmen, demanding greater freedom and democracy.

But it could use more wide-open green space, places to picnic or throw a Frisbee, the kinds of free-for-all gathering spots synonymous with the exercise of democracy and the flirtations of sunbathers.

Our dysfunctional democracy helps explain why inequality is gathering pace.

Among the paraphernalia on sale at the Democracy Monument, where anti-Thaksin supporters have been gathering for weeks, are red foot mats with pictures of the Shinawatra siblings.

The 80-year-old spent election day in Africa's biggest democracy working the phones late into the night, gathering reports of technical glitches, irregularities and violence.