For the first time in eighteen years, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The theory is that the shareholders are in control because they elect the board and the board hires the president and it's democratic.

之所以理论上说股东是掌控者,是因为他们选出董事会,董事会选出总裁,这是个民主的过程

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It undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system."

VOA: special.2010.06.26

But some Pakistani political factions and the country's powerful military have been bitterly critical of provisions in the legislation which,among other things, requires the Obama administration to report to Congress every six months on whether Pakistan's newly-democratic government is exercising effective civilian control over the military.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27