8 sentences with 'democracy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word democracy and other words derived from it.
• « Although they still controlled a large slave population, Athens is also remembered as the birthplace of democracy. »
• « Thus, under Clisthenes of Athens, Athens became the first "real" democracy in history. With this in mind, by modern standards Athens was still very unequal and unrepresentative. »
• « The great irony, therefore, is that the most glorious era of Athenian democracy and philosophy was financed by the extraction of wealth from its Greek sister cities. »
• « Also, the Athenian democracy that had crystallised under Athens' Clisthenes, with about 10% of the total population having a vote in public affairs, was at its height during this period. »
• « In little more than three years, France had gone from absolute monarchy to the first great experiment in democracy since the days of the Roman Republic almost two thousand years earlier. »
• « However, Napoleon was no lover of freedom. He imposed strict censorship on the press and had little time for democracy. »