Sentence examples for incipient democracy from inspiring English sources

Although the Kurdish safe haven is only a virtual state, it is an incipient democracy, a home of progressive Islamic thought and pro-American feeling.

As a result, tales of disgraced former governors are becoming a staple of the news here, and are part of what Mr. Zárate calls an "incipient democracy".

We had two women from the councils, a Christian and a Muslim who keeps her head covered, go to a [U.S.-sponsored] conference in Hilla the other day and speak about their experiences with incipient democracy...

Lubitsch gathers mighty hordes of extras for scenes of protest, battle, and — tellingly — harsh labor in building the state treasury (a giant sphinx as royal piggy-bank); with their vision of the murderous fickleness of the crowd as it shifts from a subject population to an incipient democracy, he and his screenwriters, Norbert Falk and Hanns Kräly, proved prophetic.

Rather, it showed that one of the toughest challenges facing Mexico's incipient democracy is to equip itself with police forces worthy of the name.The search by some 600 Mexican policemen and troops, aided by 65 FBI agents, has so far unearthed eight bodies.

What is more important to an incipient democracy: the freedom to practice your religion, or the freedom to criticize it?

What you see in this bank robbery story is the struggle between Iraq's old political culture of brutality and corruption and its incipient new one of democracy and the rule of law.

For the ancient Athenians who practiced an incipient, albeit limited form of democracy (one that we surely aim to surpass), violence was characteristic of the master-slave relationship, not that of free citizens.

When Wallander is caught staring off into the middle distance, he is often brooding on some immediate calamity that Mr. Mankell would probably attribute to a failure of the criminal justice system and view as an incipient threat to the larger democracy.

Foreign leftist academics claimed that all this added up to an empowering "direct democracy", superior to the incipient welfare state set up by Latin America's social democratic governments.

Moreover, by confirming the extremist critique that democracy is a fool's errand, Gen. Sisi has left opponents of his incipient dictatorship little choice but to use violence.