Sentence examples for perversion of democracy from inspiring English sources
Gen. Pervez Musharraf's "election" last weekend as Pakistan's president was a perversion of democracy.
In systematically curtailing Russia's democratic freedoms, Putin has already achieved what Trump seeks: authoritarianism, the worst perversion of democracy.
It's a perversion of democracy, indeed, when individuals like the Kochs have so much clout while the many millions of ordinary Americans have so little.
Just as we anticipated, he became the personification of the perversion of democracy, a president for whom nobody had cast a vote.
An opponent for class president receives a counterfeit cheat sheet and ends up answering the question "Which series of laws have since been debunked as an unjust perversion of democracy?" with the political-career-ending, the Emancipation Proclamation.
This may require a more aggressive approach: a more intense focus on the leakers in the Administration, for instance, coupled with a claim that the various investigations into Trump constitute a perversion of democracy.
In a recent article in Newsweek, my step-son Peter Beinart, eloquently argued that "The answer to Morsi's perversion of Egyptian democracy should have been more democracy," and admonished David Brooks for saying that Islamists have "absolutist, apocalyptic mind-sets".
Williams says government's proposal is an advance on the current system, which he characterises as a "perversion of Australian democracy".
The marketers' sell-to-everybody strategies have, in recent decades, produced a peculiar perversion of cultural democracy in which style, even a high degree of professional finesse, comes off as a kind of insult.
The perversion of U.S. democracy to serve oil interests like BP went into high gear under former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The description of political operatives cynically reaping the benefits of anonymous large contributors to enhance their own political power and to focus their aim on their political foes is just the most recent example of the willful perversion of our American democracy.
