Sentence examples for suspend democracy from inspiring English sources

Ratu Iloilo countered that he had to suspend democracy in order to keep the government running.

Their only point of agreement is on the need to suspend democracy.

But there is no need to suspend democracy if it is returned to the people.

By contrast, suggests Mr Samaraweera, the chief justice was ready to co-operate with the scheme to suspend democracy.

But in recent months, it has made headlines for the many attempts by antigovernment protesters to suspend democracy, a jarring contrast with its open, cosmopolitan image.

The idea is that by giving the armed forces a constitutional role in democracy it will never again have to suspend democracy as it has done so many times in Pakistan's past.

But she then descended into authoritarianism, even suspending democracy.

The "cataclysmic" result constitutes the "most serious crisis" in the party's long history, worse even than the bleak late 1970s after Indira Gandhi had suspended democracy.

A Maoist rebellion has been active for months in opposing King Gyanendra, and the king has seized power from Parliament and suspended democracy.

His decision outraged his mother, who had been imprisoned in the mid-1970's when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Congress Party leader, suspended democracy.

At the moment the Supreme Court suspended democracy by stopping the Florida vote count, we lost the moral authority to monitor vote counting anywhere in the world.