Sentence examples for pursuing democracy from inspiring English sources

The official said Mr. Bush would make the case that for dissidents and others pursuing democracy in Cuba, little has changed at all, and that the country has suffered economically as well as in other ways as a result of the Castro rule.

These fundamental rights should be valued for their own sake and therefore provide an additional moral foundation related to, but sometimes distinct from, cosmopolitanism for pursuing democracy beyond borders.

We believe that countries actively and successfully pursuing democracy and good governance should be able to count on support, but debt relief should not be granted without a commitment to that.

"Hong Kong should become the foundation for Chinese people to pursue democracy," said the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

After insisting that "the rule of law is the foundation of Hong Kong", Mr Leung said: "As we pursue democracy, we should act in accordance with the law, or Hong Kong will degenerate into anarchy".

Mr. Yeltsin received the medal, the Order of Merit of the Fatherland, First Grade, at a ceremony marking Russia Day, an observance of Russia's 1990 declaration that it would pursue democracy within the Soviet Union.

But this point simply begs the question: why should we pursue democracy at all?

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Tuesday approved new rules interpreting how far Hong Kong can go in pursuing greater democracy.

World leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit issued a declaration that sought to balance the developed world's interest in pursuing universal democracy, the rule of law and human rights, including the equality of women, with demands by poor nations for better balance in the world economy and more benefits from the rise of globalization.

Mr. Tsang urged lawmakers to pursue greater democracy within the restrictions laid out by Beijing.

Hong Kong's Basic Law, the closest thing the territory has to a constitution, vaguely calls for the government to pursue greater democracy by 2007, a schedule that in theory could allow changes that would affect how the next chief executive is selected.