DEMOCRACY in a Sentence
Learn DEMOCRACY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
60 example sentences for DEMOCRACY, such as:
1. A free press is fundamental to democracy.
2. Sturdiness and democracy and opportunity.
3. It was the beginning of democracy with him.
4. Our government is tending toward democracy.
5. The enraged democracy reproached it with this.
2. Sturdiness and democracy and opportunity.
3. It was the beginning of democracy with him.
4. Our government is tending toward democracy.
5. The enraged democracy reproached it with this.
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Meanings and Examples of DEMOCRACY
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democracy
n. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
n. the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
Classic Sentence:
1 In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
2 The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of humanity.
3 He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4 All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5 He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc.
6 The enraged democracy reproached it with this.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
7 Sturdiness and democracy and opportunity.
8 She felt that these independent citizens, who had been taught that they belonged to a democracy, would resent her trying to play Lady Bountiful.
9 In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
10 It was the beginning of democracy with him.
11 And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy.
12 "It's all my eye about democracy," she concluded.
13 I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call the vices of the upper orders.
14 For where we have a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy existing together in the same city, each of the three serves as a check upon the other.
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 Progress toward democracy has to be made in steps, rather than a sudden leap.
2 Our government is tending toward democracy.
3 Many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy.
4 They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.
5 The term "industrial democracy" is often used as a synonym for worker participation.
6 Naturally, we hope every citizen will vote, a simple obligation of democracy with results that profoundly affect our lives.
7 The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.
8 A referendum is alien to the party's concept of democracy.
9 The principles of democracy are sometimes in conflict with political reality.
10 We consider these freedoms fundamental to democracy.
11 He will remain head of state during the period of transition to democracy.
12 Their professed aim is to encourage democracy.
13 A free press is fundamental to democracy.
14 The government has promised to uphold the principles of democracy.
15 Aid to individual countries would be linked to progress towards democracy.