6 sentences with 'democracies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word democracies and other words derived from it.
• « The Social Democratic Party of Germany itself represented a major shift in the identity of socialism after the revolutions of 1848. While early socialists rarely organised themselves into formal political parties - not least because most states in Europe before 1848 were not democracies of any kind - socialists in the post-1848 era became increasingly militant and organised. »
• « A more subtle and sympathetic interpretation is that some kind of communism might be possible (after all, social democracies have thrived in Europe for decades), but the Soviet system went mad trying to control everything. »
• « The Arab Spring of 2010 gave rise to a brief moment of hope that new democracies might replace military dictatorships in countries such as Libya, Egypt and Syria, only to see authoritarian regimes or parties reassert control. »
• « Turkey, one of the region's most venerable democracies since its founding as a modern state after World War I, has seen its president Recep Tayyip Erdo#287;an consistently assert greater authority over the press and judiciary. »
• « Culturally, the idea of sovereignty has always been a contentious one for modern democracies, because it presupposes the right of the state to exercise control over goods that - from a democratic perspective - should be able to circulate freely and be produced and consumed without restriction. However, the state - above all, through the education system - prioritises certain issues related to tradition, language, national history, and so on. »
• « "An honourable gentleman [Smith] has observed that a pure democracy, if practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has shown that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never had a single characteristic of good government." »