Sentence examples for the democratic procedures from inspiring English sources

The democratic procedures of the party were followed.

The bishops' process for hammering out legislation resembles some of the democratic procedures of Congress.

Yet it lays itself open in turn to doubts about whether courts are, or could ever be, truly bound by constitutions so that law rather than judges rule and, if so, whether judicial processes are not more arbitrary and prone to error for deciding constitutional outcomes than the democratic procedures and outcomes they are often thought to legitimately limit.

"But from the beginning, I assumed the democratic procedure has to progress millimeter by millimeter.

Again, the required democratic procedures were not introduced and nomination of these members remained in the hands of national ministers.

This seems to be in direct contrast to Prince Charles's own method of urban planning – secretive letters to developers, planning committees and other royals to apply pressure on them to avoid the usual democratic procedures for decision-making.

If the actual decisions do not need to be the result of democratic procedures but only to be the same as those that would result, from such procedures how do we know which decisions those are without actually going through the deliberative exercise?

In the aftermath of the 2004 election, the world's leading watchdog over global democratic procedures, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) examined the US elections.

Some political philosophers have implied that stability is assured simply by having a consensus on the principle of democracy itself: if everyone agrees on the principle that decisions should be made democratically, then democratic procedures will be stable.

"I can't predict the outcome of normal democratic procedures, but the European parliament will, for sure, not refuse with a majority what was agreed between the member states and what the commission puts as a draft proposal on the table".

In a 2003 paper on why states move their capital cities, Schatz wrote: "Projects of such an enormous scale are easier to pursue in the absence of democratic procedures.