But it also happens because we no longer have the energy and resources to understand what sentiment means as a democratic force.
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He wanted the Sandinistas to become a modern social-democratic force.
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Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
But he has so far also opposed Democratic efforts to force the president to start bringing U.S. troops home.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
The Republican move is designed to force the Democratic-controlled Senate to put forward a long-term budget plan.
Its consideration was considered a big win for them and for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which used its power -- especially with conservative Democrats in swing congressional districts -- to help force other Democratic leaders to permit a vote that most of them oppose.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, promised to force votes on Democratic measures, such as universal coverage for Medicare recipients.
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Martin Looney, the task force's Democratic co-chairman, in response to Mr. Kissel.
The UN peace force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has issued an ultimatum to two units within the army over allegations of mass rape.
"Clinton is a moderating force in the Democratic party, " says Ruddy.
She would not comment on the plea agreements her campaign fund-raising task force reached Wednesday with Democratic fund-raisers Gene and Nora Lum and their daughter Trisha for illegal political contributions.
With its growing economic clout, huge population and democratic tradition, India is becoming a force on the world stage.
Horrified by the consequences of Thatcherite economics, first the unions and then the party turned to the social democratic Europe of Jacques Delors as a countervailing force.
Perhaps he just gets tired of the rather forced passion play that is the lot of a democratic leader, and believes too much in the force of rational argument.
But what we agree with is that if our two countries are communicating frankly and constructively, and pursuing common strategies, that we can be a force for good for the entire region and for a vision of a Middle East that is democratic, that is prosperous, that is tolerant, that is representative of all peoples, and that is a force for good around the world.
Labor and Democratic Party leaders are salivating at the prospect of using card check to force the biggest expansion of unionized workers since the 1930s.
The probe was not conducted by the Justice Department's campaign finance task force which has prosecuted similar conduit campaign schemes by backers of Democratic candidates.
Mr. Wilson, a former hedge-fund manager and member of the task force that remade the car industry, is running against incumbent Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Even if Mr Susilo wins, his Democratic Party, for all its rise in popularity, is still a small force in parliament.
Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to send more than 3, 000 additional troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo, bolstering a mission that is already its largest peacekeeping force in the world.
Republican lawmakers have sharply criticized the Justice Department Campaign Finance Task Force investigators for failing to pursue charges against top White House and Democratic Party officials who received allegedly tainted campaign funds.
The UN Security Council has approved the creation of a special combat force to carry out "targeted offensive operations" against armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.
Ugandan troops will head a new regional force, made up of troops from South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, to hunt the rebel fighters, who are holed up in the jungles of the Central African Republic, said Col.
Despite the expansion of the federal government since the 1930s, American states have remained a vibrant force, and regained considerable clout in recent years with a Republican-controlled Congress and a Democratic president at loggerheads in Washington.
Indeed, a big reason why western governments have been so twitchy about Montenegro's possible secession, even under democratic procedures, is that they fear that any Balkan border changes might galvanise people trying to impose them by force.
The BBC's James Copnall, in the Ethiopian capital, says there is a general recognition that Mali will not become peaceful again without a democratic transformation, but that for the moment the focus is firmly on finding the money needed by the military force.
The peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia is being implemented, and there is now a much more hopeful atmosphere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a good prospect that we shall at last be able to deploy our observer force.
UN: TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001
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