Democratic in sentence

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Between six to 14 year-old children participate in a democratic process, and they elect a prime minister.

The cyber threat is now affecting our democratic processes.

We have to reform our economies, change our leadership, become more democratic, be more open to change and to information.

A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections.

I believe in inclusive, democratic research that works in the community and talks with the public.

I'm not talking about setting up some global democratic institution.

So now that they are emerging in the street and we salute the democratic revolution, we find out how little we know.

Because until we convince Congress that the way to deal with copyright violation is the way copyright violation was dealt with with Napster, with YouTube, which is to have a trial with all the presentation of evidence and the hashing out of facts and the assessment of remedies that goes on in democratic societies.

Let's elect a populist demagogue who will ignore democratic norms, trample on liberal freedoms and just get things done.

The sky is inherently democratic.

But more poetically, we like to think of the structure as inhaling the democratic air of the Mall, bringing it into itself.

Art and politics occupy an ambiguous site outside the museum walls, but inside of the museum's core, blending its air with the democratic air of the Mall.

But pressed up against these democratic aspirations was a very different day-to-day experience, especially in Egypt.

Now why this matters is because we discovered a link between people's faith in their democratic process and their faith that oppressed people can change their situation through peaceful means alone.

Yet the world has never been more democratic than it has been in the past decade, with two-thirds of the world's people living in democracies.

And one of the things that I want to question is this very popular hope these days that transparency and openness can restore the trust in democratic institutions.

Because especially now with the economic crisis, you can see that the trust in politics, that the trust in democratic institutions, was really destroyed.

And the first thing that went right was, of course, these five revolutions which, in my view, very much changed the way we're living and deepened our democratic experience.

The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming.

I was forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo, my home, where I was a student activist.

Since 1996, over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Now welcome to the wonderful world of collaborative consumption that's enabling us to match wants with haves in more democratic ways.

He said, because democratic governments respect their own people and respect their neighbors, freedom will bring peace.

Well, what we've seen is the creation, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, of democratic systems of government which haven't had any of those side benefits.

It would be absurd if we were to engage again in the kind of operations we were engaged in, in Iraq and Afghanistan if we were to suddenly find ourselves in a situation in which we were imposing anything other than a democratic system.

So we need to acknowledge that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

And when I picture how Democrats and Democratic-leaning economists picture this economy, most Democratic economists are, you know, they're capitalists, they believe, yes, that's a good system a lot of the time.

I should also note that the [discretionary] spending, which is about 19 percent of the budget, that is Democratic and Republican issues, so you do have welfare, food stamps, other programs that tend to be popular among Democrats, but you also have the farm bill and all sorts of Department of Interior inducements for oil drilling and other things, which tend to be popular among Republicans.

Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.

So, how warm or cold do you feel about, you know, Native Americans, or the military, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, all sorts of groups in American life.

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