Sentence examples for imposition of democracy from inspiring English sources

The essay on how Wolfowitz convinced himself that what Iraq needed was the imposition of democracy is enlightening and commendably balanced.

I wonder if Ignatieff can point to a single case in which Jefferson advocated the imposition of democracy through military conquest by a foreign power.

The development -- not imposition -- of democracy in Iraq is vital.

QUESTION FROM JED L.: In your Comment you seem to apologize for the Obama administration's rather tepid, and delayed, support for the protesters by suggesting that the administration is simply following the lessons learned in Iraq regarding the imposition of a democracy in a foreign country.

This is not about military intervention or the imposition of American-style democracy.

President George W. Bush's administration obsessed over the idea of Muslim "improvability," arguing that the Muslim-majority world was ripe for the imposition of American-style capitalist democracy.

So many of the "solutions" for the eurozone crisis either involve the dilution of democracy or the imposition of policies that voters do not like.

Because the sanctions were widely seen as an infringement of democracy and sovereignty, their imposition has bolstered Danish opponents of the euro.

Obama's invocation of democracy, not as an American imposition, but as a "human right" was among the biggest applause lines of his Cairo speech.

"The major disputes, excitement, and violence of American history between 1815 and 1848 did not involve either a struggle to attain white male democracy or the imposition of a new 'market revolution' on subsistence family farmers," Howe argues.

"The U.S. campaign for uncensored and free flow of information on an unrestricted Internet is a disguised attempt to impose its values on other cultures in the name of democracy," the newspaper said, adding that the "U.S. government's ideological imposition is unacceptable and, for that reason, will not be allowed to succeed".