Sentence examples for relative democracy from inspiring English sources

I've been hooked on the tournament and its relative democracy ever since.

Those individuals selected to present – chosen by a process of relative democracy and a ruthless assessment of their social skills – wore suits.

The perception that Kuwait's relative democracy hinders its economic development has negative repercussions for the perceptions of democracy in the Gulf region.

For a long time the city was a sovereign principality, founded by merchants and ruled in relative democracy, and the unification of Novgorod with Moscow in the 15th century was an essential step towards a unified Russia.

The attempt by the 85-year-old president has unleashed a wave of protests, some violent, in a poor West African nation that alone among its neighbors has a long tradition of relative democracy.

A wave of protests began in Senegal, a West African bastion of relative democracy, after Mr. Wade declared in February that he would to extend his time in office by running for an extra term in what critics say is a violation of the country's Constitution.

"When the number of people and corporations who control what 293 million Americans see and hear in the media shrinks to just a relative handful, democracy suffers".

Nor has the continent yet conquered famine: in the Horn of Africa, parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are currently facing critical food shortages.But through all this, South Africa has plotted its own course to relative stability, democracy and prosperity.

That is the most obvious lesson from the sharply contrasting experiences of two West African nations over the past week: Senegal, where power is being transferred peacefully after a fair election on Sunday, and Mali, where after two decades of relative success, democracy was snuffed out in a military coup on Thursday.

The uneven capture of costs and benefits by the elite causes non-democratic governments to under-provide public goods relative to democracies" (Deacon 2003: 7).

In October 1915, the Times hosted an anxious debate on its letters pages about the relative merits of democracy and autocracy under conditions of total war.