Sentence examples for wider democratic from inspiring English sources

Opponents of Morsi argue that while he was elected democratically, he was uninterested in upholding wider democratic values and only served the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood.

It showed that while he may have been elected democratically, he is unconcerned about the wider democratic values on which successful democracy depends.

"This is a matter for a wider democratic debate.

As results streamed in from other races, it became clear that Mr. Cleland's loss was part of a wider Democratic bloodletting.

Socially, too, creative expression is central to citizenship, equipping people to express themselves and communicate ideas and emotions as part of a wider democratic conversation.

We need only glance at what has happened in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, from former Yugoslavia to Crimea and eastern Ukraine today, to realise that ugly nationalism can burst into life if not subsumed into some wider democratic movement.

"Sequestration", or automatic federal budget cuts, will have a big impact: amid wider Democratic-Republican fiscal wrangling, American defence spending will shrink by up to 10%, according to Moody's, a ratings agency, falling from nearly 5% of GDP in 2011 to around 3%.

The Log Cabin chapter would later endorse Romney, although he ultimately failed to unseat Kennedy, who had strong backing from the wider, Democratic-leaning gay community.

There is now a wide Democratic majority in both houses of Congress which gives Pres.

Against Republicans' solid edge on the issue of spending restraint (in this week's NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll), he wields wide Democratic advantages on helping the middle class and protecting Medicare, and a narrow one on handling taxes.

If one of them wins, it will be seen as a power-grab by MEPs to take from elected national leaders the right to choose who runs the commission; if they all fail, the EU-wide democratic contest will look a sham.