Sentences with phrase «fledgling democracy»

The phrase "fledgling democracy" refers to a young or newly-formed political system where the process of governing through elected leaders and allowing people to have a voice in decision-making is just starting to develop. It suggests that the democracy is still in its early stages and may be in need of further development and protection. Full definition
Since the fall of the USSR fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe have opted to join for protection, and generally the whole bloc has become more democratic and free over time.
Naturally I joined the masses for a bit, but the afternoon heat was getting to me, so I doubled back to the hostel and fell asleep for a few hours while Chile's fledgling democracy continued on into the day.
Fewer lawyers and other professionals would be able to join programs that benefit struggling families in America and fledgling democracies abroad.
Libya's new assembly needs to address some rather serious structural problems if the fledgling democracy is to endure.
Conversely, the first sign that a fledgling democracy is heading for the rocks often comes when elected rulers try to erode constraints on their power — often in the name of majority rule.
The collapse of the political party system is one of those telling consequences, for a fledgling democracy.
«Everything must be done to protect and defend our fledgling democracy with focus to prevent insecurity in the area of our responsibility,» he said.
«Is Congo on course to consolidate its fledgling democracy or return to a state of widespread instability, insecurity and violence?
First, Aregbesola gave meaning to our fledgling democracy through his programmes and projects, by involving relevant stakeholders in the distribution of political goods across the state.
It has been there to record how this fledgling democracy is slowly and awkwardly gaining its legs that it may withstand the tests of time and of the imperfections of the human beings that govern it.
Ghana's fledgling democracy is gradually been threatened by a constitutionally and legally sanctioned «closet» criminal organisation under the guise of a political grouping called the NPP.
What they have done is to endanger the fledgling democracy that we have been experimenting with since 1992, and it saddens me that the views which have just been outlined were not taken into account.»
The idea of becoming forms a major theme in the works, which attest to the still transitional state of South Africa's fledgling democracy.
In 2011, in what many see as evidence of hope for Myanmar's fledgling democracy and the environmental movement, President Thein Sein halted the dam's construction and vowed the project will not proceed for as long as he's in office.
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