Sentence examples for model democracies from inspiring English sources

During the last great democratic opening, when the Soviet Union lost its grip, the states that were newly liberated did not transform themselves unaided from Communist vassals into model democracies.

Far from living in model democracies, as some might suppose, British and American citizens suffer in Mr Ringen's eyes from woeful "misrule", which he blames on governments of left and right alike.One obvious symptom is the over- centralisation of power.

These countries must now create durable political structures and institutions, and their present leaders may not be the best people for the job.Only the naive (of whom there are many, particularly in western aid agencies) would claim that the Caspian states can become model democracies overnight.

Senegal has been held up as one of Africa's model democracies.

On the positive side, despite Wood's claim that a republican Zeitgeist is essential to the emergence of free institutions, constitutional monarchies in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, even Spain (not to mention Britain and Canada) developed into model democracies.

Christian crosses adorn the flags of Switzerland, Sweden, Greece and Finland, among other model democracies, and the United Kingdom's flag boasts two kinds of crosses".

Venezuela, once South America's wealthiest, model democracy, is emulating Zimbabwe.

Nobody thought that Indonesia would become a model democracy overnight.

Liberia may be heroically emerging from gruesome circus to model democracy.

We have become complacent with our model democracy, and thus sloppy in the execution of elections.

President Bush's goal of a model democracy in Iraq — never realistic — remains elusive.