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They are also of little help to Russia's tenuous democracy.

Basim Shakir, 24, is one of those testing the bounds of free expression in Iraq's tenuous democracy — so far with limited success.

But it signifies a return to constitutional process after upheavals that showed how tenuous democracy continues to be in the Philippines.

President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's hasty escape from his presidential palace in Bolivia last month -- he hid in an ambulance to flee a riot -- was only the latest indication of just how tenuous democracy's hold is on the region.

But that comes with a cost: it undermines any claim the EU might try to make about its often rather tenuous democracy, and confirms every suspicion "no" voters have about distant technocrats and sham consultations.

The country's tenuous attachment to democracy was broken.

Mr. Obasanjo, elected 15 months ago as part of Nigeria's tenuous transition to democracy, did not directly address the United States AIDS plan today.

Suárez then won office in Spain's first free vote since 1936, and helped direct the country's tenuous steps toward democracy for the next four years, earning him widespread praise as the architect of Spain's vaunted transition from dictatorship.

So, too, in the dogged refusal, for more than two months now, of the impoverished citizens to part with a commodity as seemingly fragile as the tenuous greenery here: democracy.

Mr. Advani called Pakistan "a theocratic state with an extremely tenuous tradition of democracy" that was "unable to reconcile itself with the reality of a secular, democratic, self-confident and steadily progressing India".

In this sense the show is a powerful and unsettling commentary on the tenuous marriage of democracy and capitalism.