Sentence examples for profess democracy from inspiring English sources

After 70 years of one-party rule, isolation, repression and bouts of mass murder, Russia is now governed not by Communist ideologues but by rulers who profess democracy.

A country that professes democracy but permits major exceptions to this equality of rights and powers does not deserve to be called "a democracy".

All the candidates, including the Communists, profess fealty to democracy.

Pakistani, Turkish and Egyptian generals profess to love democracy, but they practice it with varying degrees of reluctance.

Too many of the critics of the EPRDF who claim anti-Amhara oppression are actually Derg survivors masquerading as Amhara patriots.The young Tigrayans who were originally attracted by Marxism eventually realised its bankruptcy and now profess free-market democracy.

And since all EU governments profess to value democracy as the highest principle of politics, they can scarcely argue against giving the parliament powers which at least track the growth in power of the EU regime.The Luxembourg treaty (the Single European Act) gave parliament a voice in but not a veto over legislation relating to the new-born single market.

Professing to find democracy "infinitely exhilarating," despite having shown little sign of affection for it throughout his book, he declared that he really saw no need to change things much.

Call it gunboat diplomacy or a banana war, but this occupation was never meant — as the Americans professed — to spread democracy, especially given that certain democratic freedoms were not even available to the United States' own black citizens at the time.

Our leaders were then professing to spread democracy to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines with the same blithe self-assurance that our current leaders promise to bring the American way to Iraq and its neighbors.

According to U.S. war correspondents visiting the Yan'an area in May 1944 and to a group of U.S. observers that established itself there in July, the communists professed allegiance to democracy and to continued cooperation with the Nationalist government in the war effort.

Although the president's supporters profess to be defending democracy and the Indonesian constitution, they describe their campaign as a jihad.