Sentence examples for sluggish democracy from inspiring English sources
Our sluggish democracy has always depended on courageous political leadership.
Western expats in China have typically moved from a liberal democracy with a sluggish economy to an authoritarian state with a fast-growing one.
And in a climate already as unfathomably fractured and convoluted as this one, the uncertainty may speak to our times more than Whilealizembracing
The fact is that creating them in a far-too-sluggish economy is practically impossible in our current capitalist democracy.
For their part, fast-food managers are under "tremendous pressure" to keep labor costs low, especially when sales are sluggish, said Nelson Lichtenstein, the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California Santa Barbara.
There is no real reason why Thailand's GDP, which grew at nearly 10% a year in the decade before the economic collapse, should have been trundling along at an average of just 4% in the years since 2000.The tectonic friction between the traditional elite and electoral democracy has played a big part for the relatively sluggish growth.
But as it happens, economists have increasingly been using regions within the United States as labs of democracy, measuring contrasting approaches in various states to determine both why the recovery is sluggish and what to do about it.
The assistance that Mr. Obama first pledged in a speech at the State Department in May 2011 has been slow in coming, because of the political turmoil and street unrest in Egypt, the sluggish bureaucracy in Washington and anger in Congress over the prosecution by Egypt of American nongovernmental organizations that promote democracy.
Third, democracies can be nimble and responsive when their electorates are content, but they are clumsy and sluggish when their citizens are downcast.
