Sentences with phrase «turn against democracy»

Africa has long suffered from the politics of the Big Man, and the danger is that South Africa will eventually turn against democracy for the easy «solution» of such a saviour.

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The necessities of war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home.

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

He added: «It would not be right to turn the remarkable and necessary period of catch - up in public service provision over which Labour has presided into some kind of eternal doctrine: that social democracy is about high growth in public spending for its own sake, against which everything else we do is secondary.

Constitutional democracy began to resemble its present form when, at the turn of the 18th Century, Parliament revolted against the system of press censorship and monopolistic control over the book trade and passed the first Copyright Act, which sought to create a competitive market system based on limited copyrights.