Sentence examples for granted democratic from inspiring English sources

Speaking just like an American Republican, the Communist Chinese-appointed leader of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, said last week that if the state granted democratic rights to its poor and working class, they could dominate elections and choose leaders who would meet their needs.

"We ceded the whole moral ground on billionaires paying their fair share," said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y .. Engel questioneD-N.Y .ny Democrats should vote for a deal that could ultimately "decimate Medicare" and that hands big wins to Republicans while "taking for granted" Democratic votes.

SINCE Omar al-Bashir took power in a coup in 1989, he has tended to grant democratic freedoms only when absolutely forced to.

This kind of individualism was "antisocial," but it led the new frontier states to grant democratic suffrage and to demand equal representation.

A third activist, 23-year-old Nathan Law, was convicted of inciting others to take part in the action which happened just before Hong Kong was gripped by almost three months of demonstrations against Beijing's refusal to grant democratic concessions to the territory.

Lau said she had been encouraged by the brief conversation during which she and her colleagues "bluntly but politely" expressed their anger over issues including China's meddling in Hong Kong's affairs, its refusal to grant democratic concessions and its alleged kidnapping of a bookseller who specialised in books criticising the Communist party elite.

We'd point out that with so many races in flux, (granted the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have outpaced their Republican counterparts in fund-raising), the final fall rush for cash can be quite dire for some races that hadn't been viewed competitively by the leaders.

Gays expect nothing from Republican administrations and are taken for granted by Democratic ones.

He might therefore deserve the respect generally granted to democratic politicians who die in office.

Granted, the Democratic base really is angry, and Governor Dean owes his front-runner status to his success in mobilizing that feeling.

Last week, also in The Hague, the World Court, which hears cases between nations, granted the Democratic Republic of the Congo immunity from prosecution of its former foreign minister, Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi, in a Belgian court, on grounds that serving ministers were protected from prosecution.