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This seems naive: a new party of the left, if it ever came into being, might split the Democratic vote and thus elect more Republicans.

He said the U. S. would "seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture. "

The Democratic Party used its new power to frustrate Mr. Fukuda's government, with the aim of forcing him to call a general election.

Georgia's Interior Ministry said the action was not anti-democratic, but Russian broadcasts could not be allowed to "scare our population" .

British monarchy form of the monarchy is still Australia, but Australia is an independent democratic country.

He said the US remained concerned about human rights abuses, the lack of democratic freedoms and the repression of ethnic minorities.

The plan would appeal to Obama's Democratic base ahead of the 2012 election, but it's unclear how much revenue his plan would raise.

He began the tour in the southern state of North Carolina, a state that has not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in 30 years.

To be allowed to speak out is one of the democratic principles to be observed.

But if his wife or one of her Democratic rivals captures the White House next year, they promise a more skeptical look at trade deals.

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu told VOA she did not think it was a partisan political speech at all.

It might seem to be a Republican dream: a wish list of goodies that make the Democratic governor (backed by public-sector unions) squirm.

The last section will conclude by exploring the concept of regional governance and its capacity to improve democratic European governance.

There would appear to be, at a minimum, an association between a productive free market and a democratic form of government.

One of the great virtues of the Democratic plan is that it would finally put an end to this unacceptable case of American exceptionalism.

One reason is mechanical: it would have been a Republican president and a Democratic Congress.

"Hamas belongs within this democratic pluralistic system, not as a substitute for it, or a replacement or an alternative, " she said.

If you did not think politics to date, either democratic or not, is for ruling rather for benefiting people, you do not need to read this.

The figures revealed the failed candidate for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, is still burdened with $9m from her campaign.

However, he made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president.

He did not help design democratic institutions, and he did not lay the foundations for an orderly economic reform.

The princess rightly points out that a sport so imbued with privilege has no place in a democratic festival such as the Olympics.

Once this was the great democratic hope of Central Asia; the only one of the "Stans" that was not a pernicious dictatorship.

The court seems to think the EU has a "democratic deficit" that is best filled at the national level, not through the European Parliament.

It did not need to. Its clear message was that the democratic demands of 1911 could not be repressed forever.

The third brother, Bobby, was murdered just when it looked as if he might win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

Mr von Beust is the sixth state premier from Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union to step down in less than a year.

Contrary to the Democratic version of history, America did not enjoy untrammelled influence abroad before he arrived.

But Samaras said the new Democratic Party will not accept any form of fiscal austerity.

He appealed for unity in the fight against drug cartels which he said were threatening to destroy Mexico's democratic institutions.

But it must also be democratic, based on an independent auditing of debt to ascertain how much might be illegitimate.

And Arkansas Republicans have reason to be jubilant; the state has long been a Democratic stronghold.

Soon afterward, Senator Tom Daschle, the Democratic Majority Leader, cautioned the President about the implications of the word "war. "

"I've got a feeling election officials and politicos are going to hear you pretty loud, " said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster.

Underscoring Kerry's status as the presumptive Democratic nominee, President Bush called Kerry to congratulate him on his wins.

Litten's demolition of Hitler's argument that the Nazis were a peaceful, democratic movement earned the lawyer years of brutal persecution.

"A law like this is fundamentally inconsistent with the Constitution and with the most basic democratic values, " he said.

The balance of power itself, even more than the democratic values of the West, is often the best safeguard of freedom.

Former President Bill Clinton gave a similar message when he made campaign appearances for Democratic Party candidates.

It was vital, she said, that Mr Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) continued to tell voters that it felt their pain.

Mr. Obama has been trying to rally Democratic voters who came out in huge numbers two years ago to elect him as president.

The only electoral defeat in his political career came in 2000, when he lost a Democratic primary race for the U.

It is a safe bet that Mr Stevens would not be retiring at all but for his desire to let a Democratic president pick his successor.

The Republicans, not to be outdone, decided to try to recall eight Democratic senators who had absconded.

Democratic Senator-elect Al Franken has arrived in Washington, offering no jokes, just a promise that he is ready to get to work.

Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

but he won almost exactly same share of it as the last three (white) Democratic candidates; Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry.

Some want to impeach him or expect him to step down. Even some Democratic congressmen want to make a clean break with him.

Partisan and ideological conflict is inherent in democratic political systems, of course, and governing is often a messy process.

In the Senate, Obama amassed a voting record in line with that of the Democratic Party's liberal wing.

In the period of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, it had both a revolutionary and a conciliationist side to its character.

To be scrupulously nonpartisan, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. , her Democratic counterpart, seems to have a deep wardrobe of ties.

Meanwhile, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is trying to use a Democratic budget plan to tighten limits on government payments to farms.

The Democratic governor in Colorado also said he would not run again.

A boycott was the only option if the party was to remain true to its democratic ideals. But it was also, probably, a mistake.

But that only begs the question of why financial reform has not been higher on the agenda of the president and Democratic leaders.

indeed, they might have come from America's Democratic Party, or even from the op-ed pages of a respectable business daily.

Mr Donilon is not just a seasoned Democratic Party infighter but a foreign-policy intellectual who appears to have read everything.

A democratic soul with a free meal ticket, but no power of locomotion, no voice. I felt like a jellyfish nailed to a plank.

So the court wants to ensure that Germany does not surrender to the EU any of the core powers of a democratic state.

A democratic election has been held in Iraq, the violence is down and the Americans look set to leave by the end of next year.

The coup in 1973, which had the backing of the United States, ended a democratic tradition in Chile that stretched back to the 1930s.

He made all free men living in Athens and Attica citizens, giving them the right to vote as part of a democratic society.

Until just a few months ago, 51-year-old Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Nevertheless, the human rights for disadvantaged groups have never been guaranteed effectively in liberal, and democratic Taiwan.

Even westerners, with the benefit of a bit of Chinese efficiency, disdain the weakness of the democratic system.

At the congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Leipzig, she spoke of past wars and of modern Europe's role in building peace.

My parents say the U. S. is trying to control the world with democratic ideology, but I don't think so.

Now George Bush's Democratic critics want him to talk to both Iran and Syria to help find a way out of Iraq.

In many ways, servant leadership is a form of democratic leadership, as the whole team tends to be involved in decision-making.

Voters will have to choose between them: defenders of the rich in the Republican corner, reckless spendthrifts in the Democratic one.

Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people.

He said, "Well you've decided to head off on the Titanic towards economic and democratic disaster and we are now in a life boat. "

The modernization of Japan and its transformation into a peaceful, democratic ally of the U.

He hoped the space for such a social-democratic outlook existed in regions he knew best, beyond Europe and the United States.

Mr Hurt, however, sees the enthusiasm of Mr Perriello and his Democratic colleagues for this sort of spending as "fiscal recklessness" .

"European members do deliver but it takes a necessary democratic time, which is not always pleasing to the markets, " she said.

His message was one of unity and support for a group that has funneled large amounts of money into Democratic coffers.

It would be hard to imagine a more democratic gathering. No tickets were sold, there was no dress circle and no preferred seats.

The president and his Democratic allies in Congress finally won the battle after more than a year.

A senior House Democratic aide said he was 'cautiously optimistic' but put the responsibility on Republicans to come up with more votes.

This is usually the most democratic type of organisation, partly because it is often set up as a partnership.

There must surely be a limit to how much even a Democratic president can ask from a Democratic Congress.

It would be over-cynical to see this as a Democratic ploy to lure the Republicans into alienating a vital group of voters all over again.

The Democratic senator from Montana was a novice in the rough world of rodeo three decades ago, but when challenged he did not hesitate.

In Iraq, we are helping the long suffering people of that country to build a decent and democratic society at the center of the Middle East.

The common man of Asia like this big, friendly, informal, democratic, serious young American.

Democratic strategist Doug Schoen said Obama's shift in tone reflected a battle that turned out to be tougher than he thought it would be.

It will be argued that this Democratic sweep of both the White House and the Congress is a mandate for far-reaching change.

We feel that this hemisphere can only be secure and free with democratic governments.

It will be argued that this Democratic sweep of both the White House and the Congress is a mandate for far-reaching change.

We feel that this hemisphere can only be secure and free with democratic governments.

For most of Year One of this insanely elongated process, the Democratic Party had been a peaceable kingdom.

The Democratic Party has never produced a candidate who excites such adulation from his sort of voters.

The democratic Party used to be against the tax increase, but since the runaway inflation, it took a U-turn on it's tax policy.

The Democratic presidential candidate had previously said he would accept public funding which limits the amount campaigns can spend.

The biggest cut to education this year, of 13% per student, is taking place in Illinois, a state with a Democratic governor and legislature.

And urban liberals don't understand how much guns matter to rural white men, fumes Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, a Democratic strategist.

The question now is whether Mr. Obama and other members of his party can solidify this coalition into a foundation of the Democratic Party.

Visionary industrial plans in democratic India are fated to turn messy and become bogged down in political compromises.

"Without a normal democratic development this country will have no future, " he said at a televised meeting with prominent arts figures.

The Democratic Party have mobilized behind their candidate Kerry who seems to be level-pegging with Bush in the polls.

The only odd thing about this election is the fact that the Democratic candidates both seem more comfortable with God-talk than Mr McCain.

Far from stabilising the situation, the Democratic Party of Japan, which took over a year ago, has put the cycle into an even faster spin.

It was the most viewed story on the Web site all day. So was a recent story on (Democratic presidential hopeful) John Edwards's hairdresser.

The case of the Cabinet do not believe, bad public impression of the Democratic Party up to 60%.

His Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, agrees with him on three strikes, but has so far been more circumspect.

Thus Mr Thaksin became the only prime minister in Thailand's fitful democratic history to serve out his full term.

But it was made subtly clear that were the bank to slam on the brakes, then it would feel the wrath of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

As I said at the outset, Kyodo News believes that one of its key missions is to support world peace and a democratic society.

Paired that with much needed democratic revolutions in places like Libya seems to be the recipe for cooking up even higher oil prices.

A few more escaped to westernized nations, where they came into direct contact with the European tradition of democratic freedom.

Brought up in a democratic atmosphere, the student was shocked by the bigotry and narrowness expressed by several of his classmates.

Realistically, though, how much damage could a Democratic Congress do?

But while this is embarrassing for the nominee, her confirmation by the Democratic-controlled Senate still seems to be in no doubt.

Mr Obama's quandary is obvious: in grappling with that second point, he would fall out with the Democratic base.

Over the last two years, Mr. Summers has carved out a role unlike anyone else's in the Democratic Party.

Takashi Kudo , the owner of a construction company here, said he remained a loyal supporter of Liberal Democratic lawmakers.

This year, every American will have a chance to be part of the National Democratic Convention taking place in Charlotte, NC.

Ask him how much he paid the Democratic bosses at Sacramento to swing the convention.

"Turning china into a strong, democratic, culturally socialist modem country" is our cardinal aim in the primary stage of socialism.

And that's going to be a huge expense for the U. S. Our solution is an absolutely, completely democratic solution.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois made a plea for it to be included, even though many lawmakers and the White House are hotly opposed.

Half a century ago, the prosperity of America's middle class was one of democratic capitalism's greatest triumphs.

There was an awkward moment in Times Square when he saw the Naked Cowboy and said, 'Please tell me you're not a Democratic Congressman.

Under the influence of democratic theory, we have come to associate justice with equality, while for Plato it has no such implication.

Even the Bush administration, trying to trump yet another Democratic election card, is now proposing more oversight for financial markets.

If anything, it is good for a Republican's stock to be singled out for special attack by a Democratic president.

The ex-communist Democratic Left is likely to win around a tenth of the vote and yearns to leave the political wilderness.

The Constitution declares that the Russian Federation is a democratic , federative, law - based state with a republican form of Government.

Oh, I forgot, there was an election in November and the President and the Democratic Congress people were afraid to pass one.

Parts of the Democratic Party, in particular, are hostile to the war and the White House is nervous.

Mr Carter's weakness on foreign policy locked the Democratic Party out of the White House for over a decade.

If Gregg leaves the Senate, his replacement would be appointed by the Democratic governor of the Northeastern state of New Hampshire.

The Democratic Party is now in a more powerful position than it has been at any time since the second world war.

But the commemoration will at least provide a reminder of the dreams of a free, democratic Russia he quashed.

In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln narrowly won nomination to a 3rd term. Arkansas native Bill Clinton campaigned for her.

Our goal is an Iraq that can stand on its own as a democratic ally and a responsible force for peace in its neighborhood.

Other Democratic lawmakers sent messages over Twitter and issued written statements, but did not say where they were.

in modern times is the emergence of a democratic revolutionaries, thinkers and master Guoxuezhang bing (No. tai yan ) such a great man.

But the opposition Democratic Party (PD) vetoed the plan, so the new government has no political figures at all.

At different times he and his campaign have blamed the liberal media, the Democratic machine and Rick Perry, one of his Republican rivals.

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain supported the surge. His Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, did not.

TS is a policy advisor for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, currently the front-runner in the race for the Democratic Party's nomination.

He took several strong steps to show his leadership in the months following the Democratic defeat in the congressional elections.

Figel got a flat in the capital's old city at the time when his Christian-Democratic Party had a strong position there.

Enrico Letta of the Democratic Party of the Left said the violence must be deplored.

Reid said every Democratic senator would vote against the current Boehner proposal if it was passed by the House and went to the Senate.

At a moment of democratic upheaval, such a thought seems out of fashion.

Populations have risen up to demand democratic reforms and respect for human rights, and this includes the right to health.

Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, viewed with one another, had been heaping slanders upon him.

A U. S. scholar pointed out: in a democratic society, every citizen of the habit of pondering over a very small target, and that is himself.

Conventional wisdom holds that, at this point, Hillary Clinton has only the faintest hopes of securing the Democratic nomination.

The US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in Asia.

Pelosi said she would meet with the House Democratic caucus Monday to discuss the matter.

Deng Yan-da was a strong fighter in the Chinese democratic revolution and a representative figure of the radical petty bourgeoisie.

Prachanda: The international community should understand the feudal autocratic nature of the King and the democratic nature of the Maoists.

But the U. S. 's hesitant initial embrace of the revolt could reverberate as a democratic wave surges across the Arab world.

AMONG the consequences of Silvio Berlusconi's long ascendancy over Italy is the numbing of his compatriots' democratic sensibilities.

Mr Wan has been a member of the Public Interest party, one of China's eight registered democratic parties, since 2005.

But Senator Gregg said he had differences with the Democratic administration on policy issues including the stimulus plan.

But the Democratic leadership is not inclined to act, absent a signal from the White House that Mr. Bush would be willing to sign a bill.

Democracy activist Ramon Saul Sanchez said the announcement is good news for advocates of democratic change in Cuba.

In the Senate, 12 Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election, and only one seems to be facing a serious challenge.

He was one of the most influential Democratic senators on Capitol Hill.

He also treats his fans with disdain and coldly urges the Democratic Party to do the wrong thing if it might be politically advantageous.

Facing restlessness from his own people, Jordan's King Abdullah does not want a democratic uprising to succeed next door.

First, there is voting rights, one of the great privileges as well as responsibilities of a democratic society.

The court said the assets of the National Democratic Party will be confiscated.

While many Taiwanese want to see a reunion, others view it as a threat to the island's democratic system and higher living standards.

North Korean mass media claim that this is the most democratic form of a direct voting by secret ballot.

As far as the rest of the Democratic base and the broader electorate are concerned, Mr Obama is black and they love him for it.

Although the Democratic Party did not back the seventh resolution, it succeeded with the support of the Liberal Party and the DAB.

The Philippines has a democratic political system with a fairly long history and its own historical, cultural and geographical backgrounds.

The president might have watched helplessly as output and employment collapsed. The decades of Democratic dominance might not have happened.

Among the American founding father, Thomas Jefferson made great contribution to the establishment of American democratic system.

Opposition parties were quick to paint the visit as the result of an incoherent foreign policy by the Democratic Party of Japan.

And the Democratic leadership is likely to be forced to drop its equivocations over the next few weeks.

Shortly after, the comic blogger Beppe Grillo decided to stand for the leadership of the Democratic party, the main opposition party.

In the best sense of that difficult word, science is a democratic method.

Here in the Middle East, that same long hopeful process of democratic change is now beginning to unfold.

Clinton said she needs Congress' help to see Libya's democratic transition through to a successful conclusion.

All this makes a Doha compromise more likely. Whether the Democratic Congress will extend trade-promotion authority is less clear.

The book serves as a warning sign and a wake up call to anyone concerned about fate of the American democratic process.

But Republican voters are fired up in a way that Democratic ones are not, in marked contrast to their gloomy mood in 2008.

Thus, another unpleasant truth: The Western democratic model has no appeal to much of the Arab world.

New York tends to vote Democratic, so you will perhaps assume that garnering this popularity was a cinch.

But he points out that President Obama must walk a fine line: encouraging democratic change without threatening regime change.

Clinton, 60, acknowledged in a speech charged with emotion that she had lost the struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In 1997 Mr Khatami won a very handsome democratic mandate for reform, but by winning the presidency he did not win a free hand to govern.

The gains to Democratic donors were not as large, so the total effect was to wipe $84bn off the price of US shares.

Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Due to Burma is not a democratic country, our people should choose the non violence way of opposing election for your safety.

Free speech, therefore, is at the heart of the democratic process.

"Lethargy had begun to set in" , admits a senior member of the ruling People's Democratic Party.

Re-elected in July with a thumping majority, his Democratic Party also now has more seats than any other in parliament.

That final sentence has come to, if not define then at least hint at, the singular attitude that underlies his democratic way of seeing.

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

Democratic Alliance spokesperson Tony Leon said the decision "flies in the face of all logic" , Sapa reports.

The final bit of progress came with a bundle of amendments, offered by 11 freshman Democratic senators, to tackle costs.

That angered some lawmakers in the president's Democratic Party, who want all U. S. forces to leave Iraq.

Wherever possible, we try to run a democratic system and have the food inspected by an elected workers' representative.

The country's elite still want it to be seen as a progressive, democratic country and a serious diplomatic actor.

The faction from the extreme left is trying to elbow its way into power by short-cutting the democratic process.

The Democratic party was elected a year ago on a "go-for-growth" platform of tax breaks and payments to households with children.

Replacing one unelected prime minister with another might have seemed a democratic deficit too far, forcing an early election.

The Democratic administration henceforth had to work with the enemy.

Confucius, I hold, had the faults of not being democratic and of lacking a self-critical spirit, in a way rather like Mr. Liang.

Since he took power in 1987, Mr Ben Ali and his Constitutional and Democratic Union party have kept a firm grip.

The negative influence on constitutionalism of the argument of that "constitutionalism is democratic politics"

Some say that such an electoral transfer of power would be a useful testament to Chile's democratic maturity.

China should have its own traditions, its own ways, but should not view this [democratic system] as alien to its own cultural values.

Rebuilding America's future cannot be a Democratic or Republican political cause. It must be a national undertaking.

In a democratic and open society it is up to the citizens to decide what they wish to access and view on the Internet.

Sadly, unlike much of South America, the island has no democratic tradition to speak of.

Her years in detention were a result of her calls for peaceful democratic reform and free elections in Myanmar (Burma).

But, as a class, the intelligentsia did not create lasting democratic institutions or solidify the freedoms granted in 1991.

"Anybody he had slightly left leaning social democratic inclination really had nobody to vote for in this country, " he said.

Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and another Democratic presidential candidate, is also up in arms.

Such a democratic system now is in existence in the villages, more importantly, many enterprises are practicing them too.

All this may limit Mr Boehner's ability to work with the Democratic minority or the White House.

Joe Duffey was an ethics professor at Hartford Seminary Foundation and president of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.

It's early days, of course, but democratic reformers throughout the region have the wind at their backs.

besides his democratic legitimacy, he is far from the only one responsible for the weakness of the recovery.

What do these differences tell you about the next step in the present showdown between the Republican House and the Democratic president?

After the fall of the Qing empire, There was far a way for China to really step into a democratic society.

Contrary to what Mr Bush said this week, the dream of turning it into a democratic model for other Arabs has died.

CALIFORNIANS like to think of their state as a democratic laboratory, busily inventing ideas that are copied elsewhere.

People tend to associate democracy with the United States, assuming that the U. S. system is the ideal democratic system.

Both it and a subcommittee within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) insist the system as it stands is unhealthy for borrowers.

All members of the Independent Democrats have been asked to join the Democratic Alliance over the next four years.

Young Yemenis have been camping out in the country's capital, demanding democratic change for a month.

Do not be in a hurry to organize the people of the city to struggle for democratic reforms and improvements in livelihood.

Voter anger is high, and a Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts has sent shock waves through the president's Democratic Party.

Nevertheless, there is nothing like the systematic, top-down repression of pre-democratic times.

Building a state with a democratic government and institutions that work was central to President George W. Bush's vision of the new Iraq.

From old China we inherited a strong tradition of feudal autocracy and a weak tradition of democratic legality.

A Republican majority in the Senate, though possible, would be astonishing, because relatively few Democratic seats are up for grabs there.

That is one thing that the law book gives you, for you to choose your leader in a democratic process.

Consultation is the core concept of Deliberative Democracy, consensus is the main mode of democratic governance behavior.

But Gresser of the Democratic Leadership Council, a pro-trade Democratic group, said he doubted that would happen.

The president's low approval numbers may also be affecting congressional lawmakers in his Democratic Party.

In April, Goji Sakamoto, a lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said that Japan should at least "threaten" to go nuclear.

Just 10% consider it a democratic victory over Soviet Communist rule.

Mr McCain said the Democratic candidate's was risking "class warfare" by proposing to redistribute wealth.

But Steven Hess of the Brookings Institution says a Democratic Congress will not necessarily be in lock step with a Democratic president.

Some Democratic members of Congress expressed dissatisfaction over this, they all hope that all U. S. military personnel to leave Iraq.

While on the surface a set of democratic-looking states may emerge, they will be controlled by undemocratic forces.

To listen to Kamal Habib extol the democratic ideal is to slip into a parallel universe where down is up and black is white.

But they are ready to join forces to evict a government that, in their eyes, lacks a democratic mandate.