Sentence examples for representative governments from inspiring English sources

Representative governments have proved far better at distributing benefits than at apportioning sacrifice.

Market economies and representative governments looked like artifacts of the nineteenth century.

Isolated from the mother country, New England colonies evolved representative governments, stressing town meetings, an expanded franchise, and civil liberties.

Despite this, it was understood that individual rights must sometimes yield to societal rights and that representative governments must accordingly provide the greatest good for the greatest number.

By the time of the Potsdam Conference, Truman was already aware of Soviet unwillingness to permit representative governments and free elections in the countries under its control.

Following World War II, we lifted up the defeated nations of Japan and Germany, and stood with them as they built representative governments.

They are the only ones who are represented in our representative government.

And once again representative government is disrupted because the winners so rarely govern as they campaigned.

Ceylon thus attained representative government.

Representative government demands far more than formalities.

So much for representative government.