Sentence examples for trappings of democracy from inspiring English sources

The election had all the trappings of democracy.

Without the trappings of democracy, China is hoping it will become the world's biggest economy.

It has the trappings of democracy, but it is not democratic at all.

Russia today has all the trappings of democracy -- elections, campaigns, TV commercials, polls -- but little passion for it.

Egyptians do not accept that the outer trappings of democracy (the vote count) are a substitute for the essence of democracy: consensus, inclusion, compromise and respect.

But it also bolsters those in the king's camp who think that a military victory is possible and might be easier if the trappings of democracy were jettisoned.

SINCE taking power after an armed insurrection in 1979, the Sandinistas have adopted various trappings of parliamentary democracy.

If the very rich can use the political system to slow or stop the ascent of the rest, the United States could become a hereditary plutocracy under the trappings of liberal democracy.

The conventional wisdom among both the Afghan elite and Western diplomats is that he can, and that whoever he decides to support will become the front-runner, in part because Afghan politics have few of the trappings of a democracy.

After decades of ruthless rule, Iraqis endured an invasion and occupation, suffered from terror and ethnic cleansing, and while the trappings of a democracy have been set-up, it remains in a gestational state.

Some 145 civilians were killed in the attempt, there was horrifying footage of attack helicopters firing on crowds and guns cracking as protesters crossed the Bosporus, and the response from Erdoğan has been more repression, more purges, more restrictions on the press and a faster clearing-out of all the last trappings of liberal democracy.