Sentence examples for work for democracy from inspiring English sources

"She will be linking up with the people, who very much desire her release to work for democracy and human rights," said U Tin Oo, deputy leader of the party, the National League for Democracy, who was himself released in February after seven years of detention.

Mr. Gourgue said he would extend his hand to all who were willing to work for democracy.

Maung said that he knew he would be jailed if he continued his political activities and that it would be better to work for democracy from the outside -- by joining a dissident movement from abroad.

But officials said Austria may well be used as an example of how to support those within a society who work for democracy while showing displeasure with those who work against it.

"This was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions, and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy," a stern-faced President Felipe Calderón, who has found his presidency repeatedly bogged down by drug violence, said in a nationally televised address.

"Despite hundred of thugs nearby with knives and sticks she stood on a stool in the street and briefly spoke her usual message about how everybody has to work for democracy, and warned supporters not to react to the violence and to go home peacefully.

They worked for democracy and to help the poor.

"They are deceiving Westerners that they are working for democracy and freedom in Afghanistan, while they harm democracy and freedom".

Everything we've been working for -- democracy, freedom of thought -- all seems in vain". She may be wrong.

The violence had still not subsided by early May, and most of the non-governmental groups and contractors working for democracy in Iraq had evacuated their foreign employees.

Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere.