Example collocations logo

Democracy in sentence

5983 examples of Democracy in a sentence

"Oh, so you're one of these people who goes around the world imposing Western democracy on countries that can't handle it."
This is actually a problem for our democracy.
Until then, there's no democracy in our democratic education.
Norway is a thriving democracy.
We take the democracy for granted.
Conversation is the most difficult thing in a democracy and also the most important.
Democracy is a messy process.
The increasing centralization and the proposed laws are threatening our freedom of speech and, by that, our democracy.
And certainly there is no obvious reason to think that it would look like Denmark, or that it would be a democracy.
If you look at the 20th century, so, the technologies of the Industrial Revolution, the trains and electricity and all that could be used to create a communist dictatorship or a fascist regime or a liberal democracy.
Now, there's one big change since the commodity booms of the 1970s, and that is the spread of democracy.
Maybe we can be more optimistic because of the spread of democracy.
Because there are two distinct aspects of democracy: there's electoral competition, which determines how you acquire power, and there are checks and balances, which determine how you use power.
It turns out that electoral competition is the thing that's doing the damage with democracy, whereas strong checks and balances make resource booms good.
They got instant democracy in the 1990s: elections without checks and balances.
What kind of democracy is that?
I personally have a lot of issues with political polls because I think the role of journalists is actually to report the facts and not attempt to predict them, especially when those predictions can actually damage democracy by signaling to people: don't bother to vote for that guy, he doesn't have a chance.
In a democracy, power is supposed to reside with the people, period.
In a democracy, for example, we the people, theoretically, give government its power through elections.
That's the question of democracy, and you can see each of these laws at work in any news story.
Let's say you despise Western democracy.
Democracy, in all its trappings, free elections, town halls, endless debates about the proper role of government.
Make the idea occur in their own minds that democracy and its institutions are failing them, their elite are corrupt puppet masters and the country they knew is in free fall.
On the one hand, we're champions of democracy and we claim that we're there so that every citizen can educate themselves.
I was at the Women's March in San Francisco the day after inauguration, and the crowd was chanting, "This is what democracy looks like."
"This is what democracy looks like."
You want to know what democracy looks like?
We see what democracy looks like.
Democracy must not be a spectator sport.
That is what democracy looks like.
BackNext