Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Democracy

Taken from dictionary.com

de·moc·ra·cy   /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled[dih-mok-ruh-see]
–noun, plural -cies.

1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and canada are democracies.

3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.

4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.

5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.


Origin:
1525–35; < Middle French démocratie < Late Latin dēmocratia < Greek dēmokratía popular government, equivalent to dēmo- demo- + -kratia -cracy —Related forms an·ti·de·moc·ra·cy, noun, plural -cies, adjective non·de·moc·ra·cy, noun, plural -cies. pre·de·moc·ra·cy, noun, plural -cies. pro·de·moc·ra·cy, adjective

Democracy sentence examples
*Source- YourDictionary.com
*The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.


• Why should we give our votes to the Concertación when their agenda deepens inequality and undermines democracy?

• democracy in the workplace is a smart move.

• We welcome new members to join in the fight for a liberal democracy.

• democracy cookbook Get the Democracy Cookbook from the Electoral commission.

• The AA is proud to have the benefit of an active and participatory democracy.

• democracyre worse both in terms of living standards and human rights than the Western social democracies.

• The network aims to deepen democracy through greater citizen participation in local governance.

• democracy in the country.

• Coverage of the scrutiny process is central to our parliamentary democracy.

• democracy movement.

• The widespread belief in the robustness of the rule of law in Britain certainly reflects our reputation as a vibrant multicultural democracy.

• It is hoped that this change will strengthen democracy.

• democracy in the region.

• In point of fact, bourgeois democracy is the political formula for free trade, nothing more.

• And not everyone thinks that shareholder democracy is in such a bad way.

• And unless that happens, policies to tackle poverty and revitalize democracy will not succeed.

• Participation in political life was one of the pillars of Athenian democracy.

• Download our full statement on use of the electoral register Recommendations on mayoral elections ( January 2002 ) In our report Reinvigorating Local democracy?

• During the early 1990s, under pressure from Western aid donors, the Moi government was finally forced to concede to a multi-party democracy.

• Mr Blair, you talk about the right to bomb others in order to defend democracy.


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