Sentence examples for working democracies from inspiring English sources

Creating working democracies took 400 years in the West and 40 years in East Asia, said Mr. Zakaria, who is editor of Newsweek International.

Working democracy only flourishes from within.

It will not become a working democracy.

A working democracy does not choose authority figures and then follow in blind confidence.

Now comes the difficult part: turning a decent constitution into a working democracy.

After years of communist domination there is, in fact, a working democracy in Poland.

Indonesia is "a democracy, a newly working democracy that's trying to understand how to put the different pieces of the puzzle together".

Given that arguably no working constitutional government has not been also a working democracy, few analysts believe that constitutions alone can restrain a genuinely tyrannical government.

Until recently, it had looked like the one fairly solid example of a Muslim country that was also a working democracy.

But the gap between principles and practices in American foreign policy was as nothing compared with the discrepancy between the ideal and the reality of a working democracy.

The charge that the country often finds itself "proceeding in a pre-democratic fashion in a working democracy" rings true, though few people inside Mexico admit it.