Sentence examples for tested democracies from inspiring English sources
No voting system is perfect, and an election as stunningly close as America's would have tested democracies everywhere.
Now residents who have known one another all their lives but cannot remember ever voting in a municipal election are left wrestling with what exactly it means to be a town, testing democracy in its raw form.
But today also underlined what the President of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said this week - that it might take a decade to exit this crisis and that will test democracy, social cohesion and support for the European project.
Such a judgment would have tested Argentine democracy and its institutions to the limit.Mr Menem, whose political astuteness is unquestioned, would now appear to have two options.
Still, the coming months are sure to test Greek democracy.
"We're testing how democracy works when wages are stagnant or falling," he says.
However, there was a small group of reformers who believed that it was time to test the democracy promised in the Islamic constitution.
"Through the atrocities he committed, Anders Breivik put to test our democracy and our legal institutions," wrote Ottersen.
Varied as these events were, they show how frequently crises test our democracy, and how resilient it has proven over time.
The American values and rich tradition in welcoming immigrants has been tested as our democracy now seeks to come to common ground on this ever important, but controversial public policy.
