Sentence examples for limit democracy from inspiring English sources

Many totalitarian governments have used citizen monitoring to restrict rights and limit democracy.

Though the proposed declaration might protect liberals from an Islamist-dominated constitution, it could also limit democracy by shielding the military from full civilian control.

Turkey's highest-ranking judge, who burst into the news last year by denouncing laws that limit democracy here, emerged today as the probable next president of the country.

At one point, he even criticizes views that limit democracy to mere majoritarian rule insofar as they neglect the importance of the single individual's ability "to make his personal opinion be heard and appreciated," preferably in smaller publics, such as families, schools, local communities (cited in L. Embree 1999, 271).

And we can then launch a much needed and long overdue national conversation about the benefits and limitations of trade and the dangers of ceding sovereignty to a new international constitution whose goal is to limit democracy and expand corpocracy.

Limiting democracy isn't the same as limiting government, however.

Within rights-based limits, democracy works better if the majority can enact its program and then be judged (and replaced) on that basis.

WITH local elections due in May and parliamentary ones in the autumn, Moroccans are being offered a new version of their so far limited democracy.

Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst, said: "Recalling Stolypin helps Putin justify his own deeds, such as limiting democracy and certain liberties".

Hong Kong only has limited democracy, so Mr Tung was elected by an 800-person election committee, dominated by people loyal to Beijing.

[Žižek then explores what he sees as a global trend towards limiting democracy.] Since the 2008 crisis, this distrust of democracy, once limited to third-world or post-Communist developing economies, is gaining ground in western countries.