Sentence examples for vulnerable democracies from inspiring English sources

According to the London international affairs thinktank Chatham House, wildlife crime can lead to international terrorism, and the destabilisation of vulnerable democracies.

The election, much like the Brexit result, shows how vulnerable democracies are to simple populist arguments when the circumstances are right.

The need to protect vulnerable democracies (like Estonia and Georgia) from Russian pressure was high on the agenda at a meeting in Prague, organised by an Israeli think-tank, that President George Bush attended this week.All this provides the background for a much lower-key meeting that will take place in Italy in a few weeks' time.

This is a young, vulnerable democracy, and democratic ways still need to grow much deeper roots.

"You realise how vulnerable democracy is".

The commission concluded that it was the indigenous villagers who had been responsible for the killings; for Vargas Llosa the incident showed "how vulnerable democracy is in Latin America and how easily it dies under dictatorships of the right and left".

Saudi Arabia is far less vulnerable to democracy movements than other countries in the region, thanks to its vast oil wealth, its powerful religious establishment and the popularity of its king.

If the EU is to help succeed in salvaging the principle of popular sovereignty in a world where the decay of nation state-based democracy makes democracy vulnerable, the EU will need to strengthen its elected representative organs and better guarantee the civil, political, and social and economic rights of all Europeans (Habermas 2001, 58-113; 2009).

Mr. Leahy said: "The one area where we are vulnerable in a democracy is to terrorist attacks.

"The more people think the economy is tied to democracy, the more democracy is vulnerable," says Marta Lagos, the director of Latinobarometro.

As the founders understood, democracies are vulnerable not only to tyranny from abroad but also to sophistry at home.