Sentence examples for limiting democracy from inspiring English sources

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

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

[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.

It marks the final demolition of the "national security state", an arrangement that conservative governments in the US and Europe once regarded as their best artifice for limiting democracy and reform.

Leung said this week there was "zero chance" China's leaders would give in to protesters' demands and change the August decision limiting 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.

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.

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.

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

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).

A political arrangement that limits democracy to a privileged class and keeps others behind military checkpoints, barbed-wire fences and separation walls does not define democracy.