Sentence examples for providing democratic from inspiring English sources

For most of its existence, Israel has been providing democratic cover for an undemocratic reality.

A separate Assembly was introduced during negotiations on the Treaty as an institution which would counterbalance and monitor the executive while providing democratic legitimacy.

Providing democratic legitimacy and rights-based accountability to the health system, community participation has recently become a focus of civil society and a lynchpin of health governance; yet, despite widespread theoretical consensus on the benefits of community participation in the health system, there remains little understanding of the policies necessary to facilitate community involvement.

These 41 elected watchdogs one for each police force in England and Wales outside London were meant to provide democratic oversight for the police.

As a human rights lawyer put it recently, the process of public delegitimisation of the left provides "democratic cover for an undemocratic move".

"What we thought would provide democratic choices ended up as an expression of demographic preferences" that deepened the sectarian and ethnic divide, Malley added.

They have been defended, on the other hand, as institutions that provide democratic educational opportunities not available elsewhere and that serve their communities as resource centres for lifelong learning.

"Freedom and Justice" parties sprang up across the Arab-speaking world from Morocco to Syria, but they also emerged from the local branches of Muslim Brotherhood, raising fears among secularists and non-Muslim minorities that their electoral victories might provide democratic legitimation in any new constitutions for religious discrimination.

The symphonic orchestra arose because of middle-class demand for public concerts and from the desire of composers after the French Revolution to provide democratic music for the masses; thus, mass audiences demanded large orchestras, and the striking multiplication of instrumentalists affected the strings above all others.

For instance, though city officials wanted a combined $400 million in general aid or savings from the state, and provided a menu of more than $1 billion in various revenues and cuts for the state to choose from, a little less than $350 million was expected to be provided, Democratic and Republican officials said.

The last government resorted to blanket denials for years, and in 2007 the intelligence and security committee (ISC), the panel of MPs and peers that is supposed to provide democratic oversight of the agencies, conducted what it described as an investigation, before concluding that MI5 and MI6 had been guilty only of being "slow to detect the emerging pattern of renditions" by the US.