Democratic weapons or weapons of democracy?

It was the result of democratic decisions.

And effective and democratic institutions to point all this in the right direction.

(e) Promotion of free and democratic elections

The country held its first democratic elections in 1994.

It's an affirmation of bipartisan support for their democratic aspirations.

Introducing democratic ideas into that country will be a slow process.

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

And we will try to help make elections democratic.

Accountability Accountability is a core element of democratic structures .

In Ecuador, too, democratic institutions are under siege.

AN They all have strong democratic believes, and they try different ways of cooperation.

protect democratic institutions and the civilian population from any terrorist attack

(f) The statements made by the President of Turkmenistan in April 2005 on democratic reforms, and urges that those reforms be truly democratic, in line with established international norms

That stance fails to acknowledge that Greece's interlocutors have democratic responsibilities of their own.

For that, he must pursue democratic reforms, institutional regeneration, and renewed diplomatic ties with the West.

Here s hoping the new year will bring more meaningful and democratic reforms in the country.

But, for truly democratic societies, the challenge of reconciling divergent interests never goes away.

We now have a more democratic view and way of making music a two way street.

Since the velvet revolution Czecho Slovakia has acquired democratic freedoms and human rights are respected.

PEIJS and large numbers of female workers who are threatened with unemployment and who are certainly not working for the pin money.

Indonesia belongs to a different world culturally and economically and India is a very different Asia as well. Nor does Asia cohere politically parts of it are democratic, other parts are ruled by despots.

Its greatest political failure is its resistance to the democratic reforms needed to constrain that power.

Islamist led governments must deliver on the socioeconomic front, while building democratic institutions.

Russian observers described the elections as democratic, in contradiction to the opposition politician.

ARBELOA MURU (S), in writing. (ES) This Martin report reflects the best of the ideas and the political will expressed by the European Parliament in recent months,

Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.

The foundational principles of our democratic traditions are at stake principles that are being weakened by the clash itself.

Russia and China may no longer be communist, but they certainly are illiberal and definitely not democratic.

Turkey is suffering acute challenges to its democratic institutions, as well as government pressure on the central bank.

LONDON Democratic elections cannot be described as competitions aimed at revealing which candidates tell the unvarnished truth.

A private tribunal would hear cases and issue binding rulings, with no possibility of appeal to any court or other democratically accountable authority.

The destruction of democratic institutions was now being driven both by the desire for simplicity and by pure greed.

In the words of one Finnish observer, it was a landmark in the history of democracy and democratic elections.

I should, however, like to point out that, because of the different time scale of the reports Mr Martin's and my own the Committee on Institutional Affairs think that there is some inconsistency between the attitude to the budgetary procedure expressed in the text produced by the Committee on Budgets and its proposed amendments to the report of the Committee on Institutional Affairs.

It reminds me rather of the language of the cold war years, when you asked for the incrimination of everyone.

Russia presents a façade of laws and democratic institutions, but behind that cardboard surface the same arbitrary brutes rule.

The photo has been interpreted by some as a sign of Beijing's political support for democratic forces in Thailand.

But like Mr Nordmann I regret that we did not work under more satisfactory democratic and legal conditions.

The Shia majority, once unleashed, viewed US backed democratic elections as a vehicle for imposing hegemonic control over the country.

In Serbia, this unofficial but powerful system has been exploited by various democratic coalitions that held power between 2003 and 2012.

The activists reminded Obama that the so called democratic reforms implemented by the military backed government are either fake or illusory.

The social movement in Tunisia and the region counts on the global support of democratic forces to oppose violence and terrorism.

From the very outset of the Arab Awakening, Turkey has taken a principled stand on the side of legitimate and democratic aspirations.

To conclude, my fervent wish is that, to a greater extent than in the past, this major task should progress from the stage of noble declarations of principle to that of tangible achievement by harnessing the efforts of the