Sentence examples for ostensibly Democratic from inspiring English sources
In the essay, Calhoun compares the eviction of protesters "in ostensibly democratic America" to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
It's the same story in Tunisia, and Libya where protests and civil unrest have persisted under now ostensibly democratic governments.
It argues that BeltLine-like market-led planning efforts tactfully take advantage of the problematic principles of collaborative planning theory to create an ostensibly democratic decision-making process that in reality reinforces the neoliberal hegemony instead of challenging it.
In terms of civilian slaughter, he declares, "our ostensibly democratic ally was the worst offender, contrary to the American image of the North Koreans as fiendish terrorists".
A good part of the evening was devoted to rehearsing the various ways in which ostensibly democratic procedures and institutions have been subverted.
Even if a two-state solution were achieved, which seems fanciful at this point, a fundamental contradiction would remain: more than 35 laws in ostensibly democratic Israel discriminate against Palestinians who are Israeli citizens.
Republicans sometimes do well in ostensibly Democratic-leaning states — California, New York and Vermont, for example — while Democratic governors have done well in heavily Republican states like Montana, North Carolina and West Virginia.
In an ostensibly free, democratic society, such defensive obeisance should be unnecessary.
The continuing resolution (CR) that the Senate passed, the one that's ostensibly the Democratic position in this dispute now, spends $217 billion less on discretionary programs than Obama's budget would have.
Why do nearly all of our leaders, including the ostensibly moderate Democratic front runner in the presidential race, Al Gore, trumpet their "toughness" on crime and defense of the death penalty?
A few months later, faced with the prospect that the Cross of Fire would be banned by the government as a paramilitary organization, he founded a new and ostensibly more democratic party, the French Social Party, which he publicly claimed was "firmly attached to republican liberties".
