Sentence examples for restricted democracy from inspiring English sources

He has cracked down on critics and restricted democracy.

A coup d'état by a group of army officers in December 1926 introduced an authoritarian presidential system with restricted democracy that lasted until the Soviet occupation of 1940.

But he can be one-sided, as in his unstinting praise for East Asian development policies that often repressed labor and restricted democracy, and in his tendency to absolve developing-country governments of almost all blame for their problems.

Instead, in what some Salafists see as a daring departure from previous condemnation of anything that might dilute God-given laws, it wants a "restricted" democracy confined by Islamic bounds.

As the announced elections approached, the government conducted a referendum on Nov. 30, 1980, on a new constitution that would have institutionalized the role of the armed forces in a "restricted democracy".

Beijing on Monday barred popular elections for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2007 and ruled out any expanded voting by the general public for the legislature in 2008, in the latest in a series of moves to restrict democracy here.

While trashing these and other institutions, Trump hailed the "courage" of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and praised the nationalist governments of Poland and Israel, both of which have made recent moves to restrict democracy.

Only in the twentieth century, as the United States became a complex modern society with mass media and professional journalism, did people begin to worry about the fake-news problem, and when they did they usually came down either on the side of restricting democracy or restricting the media.

A12 China Restricts Hong Kong Beijing barred the introduction of popular elections for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2007 and ruled out any expanded use of democratic voting for the legislature in 2008, in the latest in a series of moves to restrict democracy there.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Many totalitarian governments have used citizen monitoring to restrict rights and limit democracy.