Sentence examples for leading democracy from inspiring English sources

Well, maybe it's the crisis in South Korea they're talking about -- where Kim Dae Jung, the country's leading democracy advocate, was elected President last winter to lead Korea out of its financial mess, after a decade in which he was virtually ostracized by Korea's elite.

You can't do so in the United States, which is a leading democracy.

Nigeria is West Africa's major power and now its leading democracy.

Hours later, security forces detained a leading democracy activist, Walid Bunni, and his two sons.

I know from friends in Ukraine how important this unequivocal stance by the world's leading democracy was.

Jiang Yanyong, who is also a leading democracy campaigner, was reported missing along with his wife by their daughter yesterday.

"As the world's two leading democracies, we bear a special responsibility to take the lead in meeting the challenges that all democracies face," Mr. Gore said.

More surprising and alarming is the collusion of leading democracies.

The world's leading democracies are experiencing a crisis of confidence.

Among leading democracies, only the U.S. is staying away, fearful of politicized prosecutions.

Over the past decade, some of the world's leading democracies built walls and fences on their borders.