democracyin a sentence
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The United States has a representative democracy.
democracy = a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- Canada has a parliamentary democracy.
- She described it as a democracy in name only.
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Now class, say it all together, 'We are a democracy.'
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democracy = system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- Wasn't that the measure of a democracy?† (source)
- In 2002 Musharraf held elections for "controlled democracy" They were strange elections, as the main party leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir were in exile.† (source)
- This is not a democracy; it is a dictatorship.† (source)
- As American occupiers worked to help Japan transition to democracy and independence, the Cold War was beginning.† (source)
- The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.† (source)
- The leader of the Lizards has a screaming tantrum, and five Lizard scientists bite the dust: Xenor is evidently not a democracy.† (source)
- Once my father decides how to vote on all the issues, he then practices democracy with a dash of dictatorship thrown in for good measure.† (source)
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- Then civilization as we know it wouldn't have appeared in the Americas, and democracy wouldn't have thrived until much later.† (source)
- A democracy based on fear is not a democracy.† (source)
- But tell me, Alexander: What are we to make of his assertion that democracy is particularly suited to industry?† (source)
- This isn't some libertarian mistrust of government policy, which is healthy in any democracy.† (source)
- I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.† (source)
- Before that, our country believed in freedom and democracy and equality for all.† (source)
- But still, but still ... A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy, and each of the dead had a voice, and an opinion as to whether the living child should be allowed to stay, and they were each determined to be heard, that night.† (source)
- We're lucky to have been born and raised in a democracy, but one that is always undergoing improvements.† (source)
- Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.† (source)
- "If Owen's tired of being the angel, we should respect his wishes—this is a democracy," he added unconvincingly.† (source)
- I mean, I fell in love with what he represented to me, a professor who served biscuits to a servant, smiled at her, and admitted her to the broad democracy of his joking, even when she didn't understand it.† (source)
- In our free democracy, even fighting for its life, the truth will out.† (source)
- Democracy is a wonderful institution.† (source)
- Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy.† (source)
- High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship—nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state.† (source)
- A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.† (source)
- Strewn on the carpet around me were a pair of shopping bags; a never-used pup tent; a beige percale pillowcase that still smelled like my bedroom in Vegas; a tin full of assorted Roxicodones and morphs I knew I ought to flush; and a snarl of packing tape into which I'd cut, painstakingly, with an X-Acto knife, twenty minutes of delicate work, pulse throbbing in my fingertips, terrified of going in too hard and nicking the painting by mistake, finally getting the side open, peeling the tape off strip by strip by careful strip, with trembling hands: only to find—sandwiched in cardboard and wrapped with newspaper — a scribbled-up Civics workbook (Democracy, Diversity, and You!)† (source)
- Who decided that we are a happylittle democracy?† (source)
- She says this country hasn't voted for anything in twenty-six years and it's only these silly little elections that keep the faint memory of a democracy going.† (source)
- Yes, everybody ready for rebuilding and democracy and the like.† (source)
- Thus Architecture died in the land of the free and the home of the brave—in a land declaring its fervid democracy, its inventiveness, its resourcefulness, its unique daring, enterprise and progress.† (source)
- That is what we call Democracy.† (source)
- It was the beginning of a whirlwind tour and another in the series of awards we received for "bravery and significant contributions to democracy."† (source)
- I never really believed the Iraqis would turn the country into a truly functioning democracy, but I thought at one point that there was a chance.† (source)
- Gradually a democracy evolved, with popular assemblies and courts of law.† (source)
- I'm afraid we inspired the Mayflower Compact, started all that business about rights and democracy in America, blah, blah, blah.† (source)
- And they didn't want a constitutional democracy.† (source)
- And if you think having Problems in American Democracy is a fun way to end the day, you need a snug-fitting straitjacket.† (source)
- He was astute enough to be the first to call the left "the enemy of democracy," never suspecting that years later that would be the slogan of the dictatorship.† (source)
- On this Tuesday evening, as on most, the meeting had drawn a small group with city business to transact and a larger group of the usual cranks and conspiracy theorists who had come to complain about slights from neighbors, disrespected property lines, and in one case, the threat that electronic voting machines posed to the institution of democracy worldwide.† (source)
- Democracy was going to be introduced, the threat of nuclear war was over, and the Bolsheviks would turn into regular little capitalists overnight.† (source)
- Luckily for all us backers of western democracy, Mr. Patterson, our principal, is a man of justice and vision and knows—though he would never say it—that Mautz is a wart on the butt of humanity.† (source)
- But even more significantly, I saw the expedition as a powerful symbol of a young nation trying to unify itself and move toward democracy, trying to recover from its past.† (source)
- This is democracy in action.† (source)
- The way I see it, England's a democracy, and we in this village have suffered as much as anyone fighting to keep it that way.† (source)
- The hardy, independent farmers whom Thomas Jefferson considered the bedrock of American democracy are a truly vanishing breed.† (source)
- She was no doubt keeping the home fires burning and shouting "Democracy" to keep the enemy at bay.† (source)
- As an exercise in outraged democracy, would 34 million of my fellow citizens please join me in sending one dollar each to the US Committee for UNFPA?† (source)
- The university students, once great fans of the military "committee," were now split into those pushing for democracy and those who felt nothing short of an Albanian-style Marxism would do.† (source)
- Everything the way it ought to be in a democracy; that's us"), but, of course, class distinctions are as clearly observed, and as clearly observable, as in any other human hive.† (source)
- They exist in all nations, even here in America, this so-called democracy.† (source)
- Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.† (source)
- "To attempt to introduce discipline and subordination into a new army must always be a work of much difficulty," Reed wrote to his wife, "but where the principles of democracy so universally prevail, where so great an equality and so thorough a leveling spirit predominates, either no discipline can be established, or he who attempts it must become odious and detestable, a position which no one will choose."† (source)
- The dictatorship of the proletariat or democracy?† (source)
- This jug is an absolute democracy of atoms.† (source)
- His prescription for curing Upper Silesia was "full and unlimited democracy."† (source)
- Most books put forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation.† (source)
- 'In a democracy, the government is the people,' Milo explained.† (source)
- He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.† (source)
- This is pure democracy.† (source)
- A thousand people — in America, a great country, the greatest democracy, the most generous of all new nations in modern history.† (source)
- He spoke of democracy and freedom, key themes throughout the cold war.† (source)
- Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.† (source)
- The Western "plate" will be the cream of American democracy and mass-production: in voluntary manpower; in technology, training, and industrial support.† (source)
- Elysia is a democracy, Vladimir Tod.† (source)
- This is not a democracy," I said, understanding his fear but unable to do anything about it.† (source)
- He had overseen the drafting of a constitution in 1964, which turned Afghanistan into a democracy, offering universal suffrage and emancipating women.† (source)
- So you're saying that even if Clarke is innocent, it'd be worth it to let her die in order to keep democracy alive?† (source)
- Author Tom Shachtman argues that American democracy is threatened because we are so dumbing down our language that we risk sliding back to an oral culture, and an "entrenched power structure...benefits from a passive and largely inarticulate populace."† (source)
- We call it democracy, Señor Calderon.† (source)
- It was democracy in its purest form.† (source)
- A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers....and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.'† (source)
- Our sole objective, our sole purpose, is to protect the freedom of this nation's democracy.† (source)
- A healthy democracy needs ways to bypass gatekeepers so we can communicate with one another directly, and perhaps even find common ground.† (source)
- Yet it came, and now it has ended, resolved, as it must be resolved, through the honored institutions of our democracy.† (source)
- "Democracy time," Oscar said slowly.† (source)
- The programme of the new Labour government: driving up standards in education; welfare reform; monetary and fiscal stability as the foundation of a modern economy; massive investment in our public services tied to the challenge of modernization; a huge programme of constitutional change; a new positive attitude to Europe — it is a program of national renewal as ambitious as any undertaken in any western democracy in recent times.† (source)
- Famous actors and ordinary salesmen were buried here, rock—'n'—roll stars and reporters' families, side by side in the intimate democracy of death.† (source)
- Now that was democracy for you, thought Puller.† (source)
- Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching?† (source)
- In democracy.† (source)
- With the attention we are paying to advancing democracy abroad, we ought not neglect it at home.† (source)
- In a democracy, the strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny.† (source)
- Pure Democracy Increases Violence† (source)
- To reject this outcome would destroy the basis of constitutional democracy, said Lincoln, and "fly to anarchy or to despotism."† (source)
- It has values and ideals like freedom and democracy, ideals that I'm sure you would joke about, but which have been won with the blood of patriots.† (source)
- Further, it has shamed the United States in the eyes of the world and added to the shame of the South, already experiencing strained, tense and explosive race relations because white supremacy mob rule substitutes too often for democracy.... He lowered the paper.† (source)
- In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth.† (source)
- This, I have always thought, is a remarkable thing about democracy.† (source)
- I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.† (source)
- When you get away from the chiefs and the politicians there is a simple democracy about Africa: everyone is a villager.† (source)
- We'll show them that Democracy can get to the moon first.† (source)
- To put it poetically, civic institutions should be founded on democracy, they should grow up from below, like seedlings that are planted and take root in the soil.† (source)
- I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of Democracy.† (source)
- This may not always be easy, but it nevertheless is the essence of democracy, faith in the wisdom of the people and their views.† (source)
- We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.† (source)
- She had the undistinguished, dead-level appearante of South African white democracy.† (source)
- The rise of a migrant industrial workforce poses a grave threat to democracy.† (source)
- We have seen in our own time how a young democracy needs popular enlightenment.† (source)
- We thought military intervention was a necessary step for the return to a healthy democracy.† (source)
- My Aunt Martha—like many Americans—could become quite tyrannical in the defense of democracy.† (source)
- I say nothing when they exalt these military thugs who have made a mockery of our democracy.† (source)
- Islam does not allow democracy or elections.† (source)
- The government wanted to nail down democracy in the East.† (source)
- It was very hard to concentrate while my sisters were giving me a pop quiz on world democracy.† (source)
- It's democracy with your voice, and your moxie.† (source)
- But I didn't risk my life to bring democracy to Iraq.† (source)
- The birthplace of democracy ....Ah, there you are!† (source)
- The third good constitutional form is what Aristotle called polity, which means democracy.† (source)
- This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god.† (source)
- I doubt that President Reagan could be converted to democracy, either.† (source)
- If the CIA and them got rid of him, they did it for democracy.† (source)
- We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, "If Benazir can die, nobody is safe."† (source)
- After Marx, the socialist movement split into two main streams, Social Democracy and Leninism.† (source)
- In a democracy, Lumumba should have been allowed to live longer than two months as head of state.† (source)
- All their lip service to democracy, all their blatantly undemocratic behavior!† (source)
- Demoxie was purer, was the only chance at direct democracy the world had ever known.† (source)
- There are people in DC who see us as the solution to making this a fully participatory democracy.† (source)
- A democracy can quickly develop into mob rule.† (source)
- He was a socialist who believed in democracy.† (source)
- We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press.† (source)
- By the same token, failing to hone the civic tools of democracy will have economic consequences.† (source)
- Democracy is something for a bygone era.† (source)
- It was a declaration of his faith in reason and democracy that he had taken great pains over.† (source)
- But Canada is supposed to be a democracy.† (source)
- Now we should do so in a new way, to restore democracy.† (source)
- The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome.† (source)
- Ah, Napoleon, I have yearned for such a man as you through all my years of planning for democracy.† (source)
- Second, a republic can have more citizens and a larger territory than a democracy.† (source)
- You're the one who was so excited to bring democracy back to Earth.† (source)
- Another democracy, but with qualifications, as we shall see.† (source)
- Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people.† (source)
- From 1998 to 2001, he served as assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.† (source)
- Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (RFS).† (source)
- "Thank God for democracy," said Doc Peret.† (source)
- Then the United States invaded the country and set up a democracy.† (source)
- A gargantuan feat of popular democracy, the likes of which have since vanished from the culture.† (source)
- Hence, a republic controls the effects of faction better than a democracy.† (source)
- Instead of symbolizing democracy and freedom, going west meant getting cheap labor.† (source)
- He wanted to know if he could smoke, and you gave heem a speech on socialism and democracy.† (source)
- Not even a semblance of democracy or common sense in this latest racial persecution.† (source)
- I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all!† (source)
- An America that lives by a Constitution that inspires freedom and democracy around the world.† (source)
- I mean, the police are necessary, and a democracy needs a political safeguard.† (source)
- Preserving our democracy should be reason enough to promote civic learning.† (source)
- A simple, perfect democracy had never yet existed.† (source)
- Can you wonder that there is a deep bitterness among the Nisei who believed in democracy?† (source)
- This makes the white man fear democracy ....This then is what the ANC is fighting for.† (source)
- Out of this right he has built, laboriously and lovingly, something we reverently call democracy.† (source)
- Democracy has been good for business and for economic well-being.† (source)
- In a democracy, all the citizens gather to exercise the legislative functions.† (source)
- I consider this office of central importance to Swedish democracy.† (source)
- Thank God we live in a democracy and not under an officially racist regime.† (source)
- A democracy must be small with a limited population.† (source)
- People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed.† (source)
- This defines four restrictions on democracy.† (source)
- Observations made about a "democracy" are erroneously transferred to a "republic."† (source)
- Consequently, a democracy must be small.† (source)
- In short, to defend Swedish democracy against real or presumed anti-democratic threats.† (source)
- A republic has been confused with a democracy.† (source)
- The terms "democracy" and "republic" are misused.† (source)
- We will examine the differences between a republic and a pure democracy.† (source)
- Democracy doesn't cure the harm caused by faction.† (source)
- Opponents have applied democracy theories to a republic.† (source)
- In a pure democracy, citizens assemble and administer the government in person.† (source)
- In a democracy, the people meet and administer the government in person.† (source)
- Therefore, pure democracies are always turbulent.† (source)
- In the most pure democracies of Greece, many executive functions were not performed by the people.† (source)
- Most ancient popular governments were democracies.† (source)
- To prove their points, they cite the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.† (source)
- But there is cause for hope and for faith in our Democracy in what is happening here tonight.† (source)
- "This is a democracy," he said again, more emphatically.† (source)
- This makes the white man fear democracy.† (source)
- These stories are the stories of such a democracy.† (source)
- Oh, there is no rule against local democracy, just in imperial matters.† (source)
- Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.† (source)
- Armed truce—that is, democracy—becomes the only apparent hope—a false hope.† (source)
- There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, but they use a different sort of language to excuse themselves; and there they pay a great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society, and loyalty to the Queen; though the poor man is poor on every shore.† (source)
- Things escalated after a cell of crazed anti-Happicuppa fanatics bombed the Lincoln Memorial, killing five visiting Japanese schoolkids that were part of a Tour of Democracy.† (source)
- All he needs is a toothpick in the corner of his mouth to be an ad for rural democracy, as in an etching.† (source)
- To that end, tonight on the table beside their nearly empty plates were two copies of Alexis de Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America.† (source)
- Like many of his peers, he'd turned too blind an eye to their brutal violations of democracy; a democracy that many of our leaders had been decrying as unworkable, but that they were now keen to defend.† (source)
- But although "land of the free" refers to the essential freedoms that make this country the greatest democracy on earth, it could also refer to the abundance of free samples available throughout this great land.† (source)
- It's only kids like Lorraine and me that get stuck with seventh-period study because we have to stay around for an eighth-period class called Problems in American Democracy.† (source)
- In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy, mistress and servant both scrabbled unseeingly in the same bowl of nuts.† (source)
- After three thousand years of dabbling with democracy, the remaining Old Earth families had come to the realization that the only way to avoid such riffraff was not to allow them to breed.† (source)
- When he was interviewed on television, the entire country heard him say, "We who have always won will win again," and then he invited everyone to join him in a toast to "the defenders of democracy."† (source)
- The government was happy to plug AIA as one of the biggest Swedish efforts to promote democracy in the East.† (source)
- But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.† (source)
- For example, in Problems in American Democracy the other day, Mr. Weiner asked him what kind of homes early American settlers lived in, and John said tree huts.† (source)
- He said that his enemies were conspiring with the generals to launch a coup d'etat because they would rather see democracy dead than be governed by him.† (source)
- Taking away a person's control of her own life—meaning her bank account—is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people.† (source)
- Or "democracy"?† (source)
- Thursday we didn't go over there at all because we really had to go to the library for this report for Problems in American Democracy: Read the amendments to the Constitution and condense the meaning of each into one succinct sentence.† (source)
- These were no longer just about stopping people cutting down trees but also about education and democracy.† (source)
- By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year.† (source)
- This is a democracy.† (source)
- Bore wanted to know how I could be missing forty-two homework assignments in Problems in American Democracy, and I told him it was because I can't concentrate with the vacuum cleaner going all the time.† (source)
- She symbolized the end of dictatorship and the beginning of democracy as well as sending a message of hope and strength to the rest of the world.† (source)
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