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.
CNN: On main street and the runway, nail art is the new lipstick
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.
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.
Jackson and the democratic revolution he swept in form the basis of a new biography by H.
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.
ECONOMIST: A benighted country lurches from crisis to crisis
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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Return of the 'San Francisco Democrats'
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.
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.
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.
WSJ: Democratic Voters Favor Best-Known Mayoral Candidates in Early Polls
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.
Russia has backed a French call for a new U.N. resolution, saying this would help form a new political leadership in Iraq and the holding of democratic elections, but questions remain over whether Washington would be willing to share control over post-war Iraq.
Lord Jenkins is a former Labour chancellor of the exchequer who later founded the Social Democratic Party, and later still merged it with the old Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.
In the negotiations to form a government this week the Pasok leader, Venizelos, got the Democratic Left as far as agreeing to a programme to "progressively disengage" from the Troika-imposed austerity.
But while Mr Miller sat at the summit table on Thursday night, a group of parliamentarians from his Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) met in Warsaw and agreed to break away and form a new party.
Mr Boehner's plan faces certain rejection by the Democratic-controlled Senate, as well as a White House veto threat, but could form the basis of an eventual compromise.
Another potential challenger is Jon Kaiman, the Democratic supervisor of North Hempstead Town, who said Wednesday that he had filed paperwork to form an exploratory committee for a possible county executive campaign.
Thursday, the House Democratic Caucus decided not to bring the measure to the floor, at least in its current form.
It may even get enough to form a coalition government with the old socialists of Pasok and the eurocommunists of the Democratic Left.
Will there be people in the Republican Party you all can form coalitions with to pass legislation to your liking, or are you sticking with the Democratic Party?
Bersani fared the best in the February elections by leading a leftist coalition dominated by his Democratic Party to a small majority in the lower house of Parliament, but has been unable to form a government.
应用推荐