Sentence examples for precondition of democracy from inspiring English sources

Is quiet a precondition of democracy?

"Political self-understanding matters; it is a precondition of democracy," the report states.

After the revolution it recognised explicitly the absolutely fundamental precondition of democracy – that parties must be willing to lose an election.

Speaking about the preconditions of democracy — like freedom of the press — you write that one of the huge topics of discussion in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during your trip wasn't the elections but the Danish cartoons.

Electoral fundamentalism is an unshakeable belief in the idea that democracy is inconceivable without elections and elections are a necessary and fundamental precondition when speaking of democracy.

The advocates of this trade deal tell us that prosperity is a precondition for democracy.

For Ignatieff, "the central paradox is that imperialism has become a precondition for democracy".

For him, establishing the "preconditions for democracy" should not be shunted aside by concerns with economic growth rates.

Largely non-voluntary commonalities of belief, history, and custom compose necessary preconditions of any viable democracy, and since these commonalities are missing beyond the sphere of the nation-state, global or cosmopolitan democracy is doomed to fail (Archibugi, Held, and Koehler 1998).

It still runs the Gaza strip, despite Israel's blockade.Israel is plainly alarmed by the prospect of Islamists taking power on their border, even though its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was once a loud advocate of democracy in the Arab world, calling it a precondition for peace.

"The most important precondition for Hitler's rise in popularity was the apparent failure of democracy in the face of economic crisis".