Sentence examples for imperfect democracy from inspiring English sources

The result is a most imperfect democracy.

In that sense, Indonesia's still imperfect democracy is working like a charm.

And Turkey's vibrant, if imperfect, democracy has trumped the mullahs, at least for now.

It's a big, sloppy, difficult, unsettling challenge to our trust in imperfect democracy.

Mr. Fujimori has gone so far as to characterize Peru's system as "an imperfect democracy".

Nigeria got one in 1999 when it returned to imperfect democracy after decades of ethnic strife and military rule.

THERE have always been imperfect democracies; the very messiness of the political form invites imperfection.

Outside Utopia, imperfect democracies must continue to talk to, and trade with, a spectrum of autocratic or authoritarian states.

Susan Kaufman Purcell, president of the Americas Society in New York, classifies the governments of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Mr. Fujimori in Peru as "imperfect democracies" -- adding that often "it is a hard call where to draw the line between imperfect democracies and fake democracies".

Both cities were governed by functioning but imperfect democracies, and both were famous for their corruption.

The official Cuban media reports, immediately, when the citizens of the world's imperfect democracies take to the streets.