Israel, in AIPAC's playbook, is the best judge of its defense needs, a sister democracy, and, besides, a strategic asset in a volatile region.
A sense of national belonging is the twin sister of democracy; nationalism is the social glue that makes consensual politics work.
By contrast, the UMP, along with its centre-right sister, the Union for French Democracy (UDF), scraped together just 34%, well below the 47% legislative score of the UMP alone in 2002.Polls suggest that the left will beat the right by as much as 46% to 36% in the second round.
Suthep accuses Thaksin – and by default, his sister Yingluck – of having destroyed not only democracy in Thailand, but the "virtues and ethics of the people".
Racial policing is a sin -- against our brothers and sisters, against genuine American democracy, and finally against God.
ALMOST half the world's population now lives in a democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation of this newspaper.
"When we asked him why he wanted to kill his sister, he said, 'Because it is now a democracy in Iraq'.
Arab League states account for almost a third of the world's autocracies, according to a democracy index constructed by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist.
German Christian Democracy is not about to implode as the sister party did in Italy during the 1990's.
Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was elected to succeed him as government chief when democracy was purportedly restored with elections in 2011 but was confronted with the same opposition from the Bangkok business elite that led to her brother's ouster.
