But Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, is a stickler for democratic form.
From the runway to main street, nail art has emerged as a democratic form of self-expression in which anyone can participate.
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In the first regime, Americans clung to European notions of hierarchy even as they created a new and for the time unusually democratic form of government.
Our experience on the other side of the Taiwan Strait is that economic success can be an excellent foundation for democratisation, but that a democratic form of government is essential for sustaining prosperity.
Six sitting MPs joined the Democratic Left, while others tried to form an anti-austerity left social democratic party, led by charismatic female MP Louka Katseli.
All the presidential front-runners, Republican and Democratic, favour some form of carbon-capping.
He went on to say there had to be "some form of democratic accountability and a link back from the national authority back to the local areas".
All of the new technologies that Mr Blair promotes are entirely controlled by private enterprise and released into the world without any form of democratic mandate or public consultation.
Yet moving toward any form of democratic rule in Iraq will be even more difficult than it was in the Balkans, experts contend, where at least some democratic institutions existed, dating from the early 20th century.
It needs time to form its own democratic habits and establish the rule of law.
Jackson and the democratic revolution he swept in form the basis of a new biography by H.
" In our case, constitutional arrangements provide inherent "individual rights, democratic representation (with some form of majority rule) and national citizenship.
In 1981, after he had left the European Commission, and the chance of leading the Labour Party and becoming prime minister was long past, he helped to form the Social Democratic Party.
Nobody was surprised when he asked his own Social Democratic Party to lead negotiations to form a new government.
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To some officials, supportive opinion polls offer a form of quasi-democratic mandate.
There is, however, a less democratic, but perhaps more potent, form of economic peace that I find more attractive: trade.
Certainly I do not question the sincerity of our elected officials and their commitment to our form of government or our democratic society.
The Democratic Party's apparent reversion to form began with a speech given by former Vice President Gore -- delivered, appropriately, in San Francisco.
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But the union saw a breakaway faction emerge during the industrial dispute, when miners in Nottinghamshire voted by three-quarters to oppose the strike and form the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers.
He said Britain welcomed the NTC's pledge to form an inclusive transitional government before democratic elections.
In a Commons statement on 31 January 2011, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said "free and fair elections" should form part of "a more democratic system" in the country.
The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vlad Filat, said the election was a victory for truth and that it would definitely seek to form a coalition with other opposition parties - the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party and Our Moldova Alliance.
What happens as tolerant democratic societies try to accommodate themselves to the stealthy form of jihad, backed by the persistent threat of the violent form - if not its actual occurrence, can be seen in much of Western Europe.
They oppose 80, 000 Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia and 100, 000 troops and militia of the Vietnamese-backed PRK. Until the non-communist resistance can protect its base of popular support the democratic resistance cannot survive except through some form of association with the Khmer Rouge.
More than one-third of the city's Democratic voters don't know enough about him to form an opinion, according to the Marist poll.
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On the political front in Italy, Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani's attempts to form a coalition government took a hit after the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement rejected his call for support.
First elected to the Senate from Queens in 2000, the former Senate Democratic leader joined a breakaway group of Democrats in December to form a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.
The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was diagnosed with an incurable but treatable form of cancer last week.
Yesterday, in a closed door meeting, the House Democratic caucus voted nearly unanimously not to bring the bill in its current form to the House floor.
Then, in the face of irregularities during the voting process itself, the Bush Administration initially took the correct step and urged the Romanian government to form an independent commission to investigate the charges made by Romanian democratic leaders and western observers.
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