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"democratically" Definitions
  1. by representatives who are elected by the people of a country
  2. with all members having an equal right to be involved in running an organization, etc.
  3. with all members of a society being equal rather than divided by money or social class

931 Sentences With "democratically"

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Who gets to draw the line between democratically healthy and democratically toxic speech?
Before long, the democratically or pseudo-democratically elected leader is indistinguishable from a dictator.
CONWAY: And let's see if the Democratically-controlled Congress starts to ... No. CUOMO: Yes -- CONWAY: Here's what I see, the Democratically-controlled Congress.
During the Cold War, that meant toppling democratically elected governments—such as the US-sponsored assassinations of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba and democratically Chilean president Alvador Allende.
He is a loyal servant of a democratically elected president.
He also issued his support for the democratically elected government.
"The Congress will decide all these things ... democratically," he said.
Muhammad Morsi, the only democratically elected president of Egypt, died.
He's running to be president of a democratically elected country.
That's why we have elections, why we democratically select leaders.
Mr. Morsi had been democratically elected president the year before.
Who barred young people, democratically elected candidates, from entering politics?
You would have to have a democratically controlled accumulation fund.
And we also expect that they will be democratically responsive.
Voters go to the polls on Tuesday, and for the first time since anybody can remember, a sitting, democratically elected Liberian president is about to hand over the reins to a democratically elected successor.
Why it matters: Over the past eight years, Orban's democratically-elected governments have, in fact, behaved less and less democratically — steadily centralizing power, eroding the independence of the courts, the media, and even cultural institutions.
Blocking them also blocks our ability to pressure democratically-deficient leaders.
Nobody knows who Mossadegh was, democratically-elected prime minister of Iran.
Whereas two years ago he was blaming the Democratically elected Senate.
The bill has passed through the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives.
She lost because the Constitution does not choose the president democratically.
" In short, "Democratically controlled 'school choice' is a civil right issue.
The government, which has been elected democratically, will be in place.
General Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, a Socialist.
As democratically elected officials, prosecutors' legitimacy is premised on public trust.
Muhammad Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has died in court.
The move to disband a democratically-elected party hit a nerve.
The "political side of my brain" accepts our democratically elected president.
But where we don't think that technology companies are rightly in the business of regulating democratically elected governments, we think democratically elected governments should be in the business of regulating technology companies — not the other way around.
In December 1983, Bignone handed over power to democratically elected Raul Alfonsin.
She becomes the country's first democratically elected leader to be forcibly removed.
The democratically elected National Assembly has a special role to play here.
Egypt's first democratically elected president has died after fainting in a courtroom.
For the second time in Pakistani history, power has been democratically transferred.
That puts him in charge of Venezuela's last remaining democratically elected institution.
She is a naturalized citizen and a democratically-elected member of Congress.
It would supersede other institutions and replace the democratically elected National Assembly.
In 2008, the Maldives chose its first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed.
Questions have also been raised about her commitment to sharing power democratically.
Haftar over the UN-recognized government in Libya, a democratically elected but
As a result, each party would take more centrist, democratically responsive positions.
This, too, is commonplace today among many countries with democratically elected presidents.
The tree will be in its democratically ordained place by Tuesday morning.
Refusing to cooperate with democratically elected representatives strikes many constituents as undemocratic.
This is tantamount to fomenting a coup of a democratically elected government.
The first democratically elected president would be deposed in a popular military coup.
And this could be fertile ground for investigations by the Democratically controlled House.
The coin would be shaped democratically by this co-op (shaped not controlled).
For the past 22 years, however, it has hosted Taiwan's democratically elected presidents.
Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in September 1973.
In South Africa, a democratically elected parliament approved the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
"Sometimes the President seems to forget that he was democratically elected," Pratt said.
She became the country's first democratically elected president to be removed from office.
"A government democratically elected at the ballot box is in jail," she said.
After the invasion, Quisling led a coup that overthrew Norway's democratically elected government.
Nothing that happened or will happen in the Supreme Court was achieved democratically.
But they're democratically elected officials—aren't they just doing what the public wants?
"Democratically deciding the future of a nation is not a crime," he argued.
Democratically elected leaders borrow from the anti-press playbook of dictators and tyrants.
As with many other institutions, parties have become more democratically run over time.
And while Britain is not leaving democracy behind, this act was democratically damaging.
Is it dangerous when democratically elected leaders curtail press freedom or spread misinformation?
And this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government.
Every democratically elected government has been removed on charges of corruption and incompetence.
Kerry said the United States continues to stand by Turkey's democratically elected leadership.
The petition of concern is a mechanism which was democratically voted for in 1998.
By contrast, some Republicans had voted for his Democratically nominated predecessor, Rabbi David Saperstein.
It's slightly different from the $4.5 billion bill the Democratically led House passed Tuesday.
A weakened junta subsequently ceded much of its power to a democratically elected government.
Anyone can look at this code, but only democratically elected masters can make alterations.
President Obama is a democratically elected official, faithfully discharging the duties of his office.
In the days that followed, João Goulart, the democratically elected president, fled to Uruguay.
Willful obstruction to good faith, democratically minded political interrogation really isn't a sustainable strategy.
But it would not reflect the majoritarian spirit democratically enacted legislation should aspire to.
Chávez's constitution was drawn up by a democratically elected constituent assembly, convoked by referendum.
Park, 65, is South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
Their father was the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt's modern history.
Egypt's first democratically elected president died in a Cairo courtroom, according to state television.
Part of the problem for parties is our insistence that they be run democratically.
Squeezing regional dictators is simply not a priority for Latin America's democratically elected leaders.
Mr. Trump is a democratically elected president, and the United States is a democracy.
"It should be resolved democratically," Lopez Obrador said during his daily morning press conference.
It's not like any suggestions will get far, though, with a Democratically-controlled House.
He allowed the attendees to democratically settle on a loose theme for the evening.
"The decision to leave has to be made democratically as much as possible," Cohen said.
With the ruling, she became the country's first democratically elected leader to be forcibly removed.
Democratically elected proto-dictators use a two-pronged approach after taking power by legitimate means.
Tunisia democratically replaced a 69-year-old president with an 88-year-old in 2014.
Liberians are voting for a successor to Sirleaf, Africa&aposs first democratically elected woman president.
His government had followed another democratically elected one—a feat not achieved since the 1990s.
Women have also been democratically elected in Southeast Asia—in South Korea, Thailand, and Myanmar.
The MTV Movie & TV Awards' winners are selected democratically through a portal on MTV's website.
In June 2012, Mohamed Morsy was sworn in as the country's first democratically elected President.
Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, was deposed by a military coup in 2013.
This will be the first democratically elected government since the military seized power in 1962.
"We won the House, the Senate, and the White House democratically — we won," Brat said.
I strongly oppose U.S. policy, which overthrows governments, especially democratically elected governments, around the world.
And Krasner was democratically elected — on an explicit platform to reform the criminal justice system.
After the 1992 election, you had a fully Democratically controlled Congress and a Democratic president.
Like it or not, Manchin said, Trump was democratically elected and shouldn't be undemocratically removed.
Al-Thani: Well we support countries, however democratically elected or however the system they choose.
Third, private-school assets will be "redistributed democratically and fairly across the country's educational institutions".
More fool anyone who signs up to ink their name to its democratically void rubberstamp.
How would they react to others attempting to strip the democratically decided results from them?
But in sub-Saharan Africa, the strongmen have a very specific need to appear democratically elected.
Since independence in 1974, no democratically elected leader has served a full term in Guinea-Bissau.
Egypt's first democratically-elected leader had spent one year as President and six years in prison.
The release of a whistleblower's complaint led to an impeachment inquiry in the Democratically controlled House.
Over time, the need for their patron's approval forced them to adopt democratically accountable political systems.
However, the Democratically controlled House is anticipated to vote to override the veto on March 26.
Obama doubled down on previous endorsements by administration officials by describing the government as 'democratically-elected.
Her father was the first democratically elected mayor of St Petersburg and once Mr Putin's boss.
Also, the Romans were not ready to see their democratically elected leader overthrown by a German.
" May's office said it was "not appropriate to attack the composition of a Democratically-elected ally.
Democratically controlled states indicated they will continue to crack down on greenhouses gases through state policies.
At the time, a coup had recently toppled the democratically elected president and sparked deadly protests.
Mursi, democratically elected after the 2011 revolution, was overthrown by Sisi, then the armed forces chief.
Finally, no-first-use would help ensure that democratically elected officials maintained control over nuclear weapons.
Mr. Bignone took over with the stated goal of transitioning to a democratically elected civilian government.
America has a troubled history with Iran, including overthrowing the country's democratically elected leader in 1953.
They are not chosen "democratically," that is, not by voters in this year's primaries and caucuses.
This time, the assault is coming from within and from the top — from democratically elected leaders.
He returned as a democratically elected president in 2015 and won a second term this year.
"If there were a people of gods, it would govern itself democratically," Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote.
However, he has taken a different approach with other leaders who purport to be democratically elected.
Erdogan denies this, saying he is acting within his legitimate powers as a democratically-elected president.
And be governed by democratically accountable institutions that are bound by legally enforcement standards of transparency.
"Our job is to defend the national process, the democratically held elections and civilians," he said.
His democratically elected successor, Adama Barrow, was sworn into office in the Gambian Embassy in Senegal.
Shouldn't some other entity, like maybe a democratically elected government, have some input in their rollout?
The United Arab Emirates has no democratically elected institutions and no formal commitment to free speech.
Now Park is also the first democratically elected South Korean leader to be put behind bars.
The Democratically controlled legislature then approved a budget with tax hikes to help close the pension gap.
Her father was Chile's first democratically elected president after the 1973 to 1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Including a democratically elected politician as a subject in a criminal investigation likewise calls for special care.
In Frum's book Trumpocracy, he argues that Republicans are wedded to an ideology that cannot succeed democratically.
The Russian leader repeated his standard line that the future leadership of Syria should be elected democratically.
In 2006, Prem was accused of masterminding the coup that ousted democratically-elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The South's democratically elected president, Moon Jae-in, will have breakfast with the brutal god-king's kin.
The country has seen unrest since its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, was ousted in 2012.
"The problem is that we can't recognise somebody who was not elected democratically," said one EU diplomat.
"I'm going to be looking forward to turning over power to the person elected democratically," he said.
"The United States strongly supports Turkey's democratically elected civilian government and that country's democratic institutions," Earnest said.
Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government.
Why America is losing: As a Democratically run nation, it can't push policies and subsidies by fiat.
Buhari first took power in a military coup in the 1980s but was democratically elected in 903.
The National Assembly's lawmakers are, after all, the last remaining democratically elected officials in the country. Sen.
Ortega was democratically elected in 2006, but has since been accused of mounting repression and media censorship.
Pervez Musharraf took over the government in a bloodless coup, overthrowing democratically-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Clearly, the Maduro government has failed to govern democratically, a commitment required of all O.A.S. member nations.
But, another key tenet of the so-called Basic Law is democratically electing leaders through universal suffrage.
These new projects, sometimes called "platform cooperatives," are tech enterprises owned and democratically controlled by their workers.
At this point, the United States must work to protect Guaidó, Venezuela's democratically-supported and constitutional leader.
It's worth reflecting on Sullivan today to appreciate why the press is constitutionally protected and democratically essential.
In 1992, he had led a failed coup attempt against the democratically elected government of the day.
California has a veto-proof democratically controlled state legislature and could achieve some traction with this ambition.
Democratically elected presidents and potentates are equally aware: Aspirations, when thwarted, can be a potent, spiteful force.
Mr. Puigdemont, speaking from his hometown, Girona, insisted that Mr. Rajoy was removing a democratically elected government.
The outgoing leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was the first democratically elected female president in all of Africa.
The framers did not make it easy for Congress to remove a democratically elected president from power.
The United States overthrew the government of Guatemala, a democratically elected government, overthrew the government of Brazil.
According to a senior official, a democratically elected government should take power in Thailand by December 2017.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is stepping down after two terms as Africa's first democratically elected female president.
When France says a leader has not been democratically elected, Africans tell us: why are you meddling?
In 2013, the Egyptian military threw out the highly unpopular but democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
In 85033, the Democratically controlled Senate confirmed seven of President Obama's Cabinet picks in a single day.
It's also bad democracy to have New York state nullify a democratically adopted New York City law.
Not being democratically elected, or appointed on merit, Andrew can't be voted out of office or sacked.
One problem remains: His democratically elected successor fled to Senegal last week and is trying to return.
That watershed moment soon led to the world's first democratically elected female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, in 1980.
Or do we want to democratically weigh how DeepMind should proceed and make regulations as a society?
Mr. Chávez was a lousy manager, but he had charisma and won elections more or less democratically.
Now that the Senate is in Democratic hands, the Democratically controlled State Assembly isn't quite as eager.
It means democratically elected officials do have power, but their institutions are ultimately secondary to unelected institutions.
The following year, Mohamed Morsy -- a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood -- became Egypt's first democratically elected president.
None of the five democratically elected presidents before Park finished their terms with more than 30 percent approval.
Democratically elected politicians have been arrested, Kurdish rights organizations shut down, and peaceful demonstrations dispersed with extreme force.
I'm not American, but he's a democratically elected president of America, so people have to deal with it.
And you watch everyone gravitate toward Facebook where it's not serving the community purpose totally fairly, totally democratically.
The decision meant Park became the first democratically elected leader of South Korea to be stripped of office.
It would mark a grim milestone: the continent's first democratically elected far-right head of state since 1945.
Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, lives in exile in Britain but is currently in Sri Lanka.
A secret-ballot election will fairly and democratically resolve this debate and ensure that all voices are heard.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has said that it's not up to companies, but governments, to democratically decide policy.
Mr Duque has recognised the president of Venezuela's democratically elected national assembly, Juan Guaidó, as Venezuela's legitimate president.
The chief of army staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, recently declared his commitment to a democratically elected government.
President Koroma, who is now serving his second democratically elected term, isn't the worst leader in the world.
Tensions have also risen between Taipei and Beijing, which considers the democratically ruled island part of "one China".
Aline Hond, 22: Dilma was democratically elected by the people, and she will remain our president until 2018.
This is a mathematics group with a mission to help the political system operate more fairly and democratically.
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, as it was called, was run democratically, with one vote per member.
Taiwan, a democratically-governed island, split from the Communist Party-ruled mainland China amid civil war in 1949.
Meanwhile, in our democratically elected government with civilian oversight of the military, the educated class sets military policy.
If the impeachment is upheld, she will become the first democratically elected leader to be removed from office.
People he grew up around talked about cooperative economics, about businesses controlled democratically by the people they serve.
"We think that this is the wrong decision - both legally and democratically," a spokesman for Corbyn's campaign said.
Those systems, when properly funded and democratically run, provide people across the country with clean, safe drinking water.
Francisco Franco — aided by Mussolini and Hitler — had defeated the forces of the democratically elected government of Spain.
Ousted leader dies: Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, collapsed and died while on trial in Cairo.
Thailand is ruled by a military junta that seized control four years ago from a democratically elected government.
If democratically accountable governments legislate net-zero targets, businesses should obey the law as it applies to them.
To foreigners all this may sound like an absurd spoof, but to democratically minded Thais, it was ominous.
Now that nearly everyone owns a smartphone, the plague of screen addiction has spread democratically throughout the world.
The resolution is up for a vote today in the Democratically controlled House, where it's expected to pass.
Almost Kashmir's entire leadership class — democratically elected representatives, teachers, students, intellectuals, and prominent merchants — is now behind bars.
That's not quite a democratically elected representative — but hopefully it bolsters the board's accountability to Facebook's user base.
Presidential hopefuls are keen to assert the absolute authority of a democratically elected government in any negotiated peace.
It is about implementing the democratically expressed wishes of the British people in a serious and sensible way.
National emergencies can threaten the constitutional balance even under democratically minded presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
It was the first time that a democratically elected president had been removed from office in South Korea.
Iran's powerful security establishment, which operates independently of the democratically elected officials, still prefers a policy of hostility.
This country's government deliberately and purposefully worked to overthrow the democratically elected prime minister of a sovereign nation.
Essebsi was the first head of state to be democratically elected in Tunisia following the popular uprising of 2011.
Leung and Yau said they were "deeply disappointed" by the Court of Final Appeal decision after being democratically elected.
Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in September 1973 and his dictatorship lasted until 1990.
At a glance, you'd struggle to tell who was in charge, with decisions seeming to occur spontaneously and democratically.
Low approval ratings, she said, shouldn't be what fuels a push to remove a democratically elected leader from office.
Congress also made aid dependent on the U.S. Secretary of State certifying that Egypt was moving to govern democratically.
Hungary, by contrast, "allowed their people to speak on this," he added, because Orbán and Fidesz were democratically elected.
The junta has had four years to make its mark, as long as a democratically elected government would have.
That came after two pro-independence, democratically elected legislators were kicked out of Hong Kong's assembly late last year.
Its citizens democratically elect the president and lawmakers, but there's a catch -- not everyone gets to run for office.
" In their letter, Shaheen and Rubio said Tillerson is uniquely positioned to communicate U.S. support for "democratically-minded Russians.
Millions of Egyptian protesters had rallied against the rule of democratically elected President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But Ocasio-Cortez made the point that this group is largely composed of corporations and not democratically elected representatives.
Mr Macri looks likely to become the first democratically elected non-Peronist president to finish his term in office.
This is the first time since 1944 that a democratically elected leader will hand over to another in Liberia.
But over the past five years, the popular and democratically elected president gradually became less popular and less democratic.
But the decisive factor is how the majority of the population and their democratically elected leaders handle these phenomena.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Egyptian army overthrew Egypt's first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.
But where legal judgment is called for, it should be provided by courts and other public, democratically accountable forums.
Trump has shown once again how much more comfortable he is with authoritarian leaders than with democratically elected ones.
Mr. Trump had nothing but praise for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's increasingly authoritarian but democratically elected leader.
Mr. Nasheed, the democratically elected president, was convicted of terrorism last year and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
A right-wing coup, led by Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini, toppled a democratically elected government.
Apartheid officially ended in 1994, when Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president, but its legacy remains.
Muhammadu Buhari, 76, made history in 2015 as the first person to democratically oust an incumbent president in Nigeria.
Guinea-Bissau has not seen a democratically elected leader serve a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974.
The Chinese government insists that it has a sovereign right to Taiwan, which has its own democratically elected government.
Have Americans forgotten our involvement in the 1953 coup that ousted Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran's democratically elected leader?
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, collapsed and died while on trial in Cairo, Egyptian state television reported.
"The measures that have been adopted, they are our last chance to overcome this crisis democratically," Mr. Dab said.
"This was essentially a group of women working together democratically and mining their own lives for material," she says.
The results should be seen in somewhat the same democratically pedagogic spirit as his hero Leonard Bernstein's televised lectures.
Park was impeached in March 2017, making her the country's first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office.
Activists say the city government's efforts in disqualifying democratically elected lawmakers is a direct assault on the city's freedoms.
"It is disappointing that a foreign government should question the prerogative of the democratically elected president," the statement added.
The politically insulated judiciary, then, is essential to the meaningful enforcement of the Constitution on the democratically elected branches.
In 1953, the CIA helped orchestrate a military coup, which overthrew the then democratically-elected Iranian leader, Mohammad Mossadegh.
Fears of China loom Taiwan is a democratically governed island of 23 million people in the South China Sea.
To live democratically is, mainly, to deal in failure and imperfection, and to entertain few illusions about human society.
His democratically elected successor has since accused Mr. Jammeh of plundering the treasury and fleeing with millions of dollars.
Any tax proposal from the White House would face an uphill battle in Congress with the Democratically controlled House.
The largely peaceful election was the first in Mauritania's history to choose a successor to a democratically elected president.
Al Jazeera journalist detained in Berlin released without charge Ousted Morsy, Egypt's first democratically-elected ruler, was ousted in 2013.
Even in the West, where such data utilities would presumably be democratically controlled, the potential for abuse would be huge.
She could become the first democratically elected leader to be removed from office if the Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment.
The Maldives has been mired in political unrest since Mohamed Nasheed, its first democratically elected president, was ousted in 2012.
Such an AGI could replace corrupt governments and biased judicial systems, making decisions according to a democratically-determined objective function.
Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected president of Russia, then a subordinate part of the Soviet Union, called for resistance.
Earlier this week, the party denounced the arrests of the Kurdish lawmakers, calling on its own supporters to "resist democratically".
The European Council, which is essentially the EU's chief executive body, comprises the 28 member countries' leaders, all democratically elected.
Bribes were buying unconstitutional acts, such as a motion to remove a democratically elected president, a right only parliament reserves.
Over 100 activists have been killed in the country since the 2009 military coup that ousted democratically elected Manuel Zelaya.
The island nation has been mired in political unrest since its first democratically elected leader Nasheed was ousted in 2012.
The people of Nagorno-Karabakh democratically exercised their fundamental rights against the communist regime and the tyranny of Aliyev dynasty.
"Locking up democratically elected leaders is more than a bridge too far," Flanders premier Geert Bourgeois said in a statement.
I believe the West started it when they overthrew a pro-Russian democratically-elected government that was on Russia's border.
" In his view, "the thrust of the next ten years of education reform must be democratically controlled, community-based reform.
Unless elected politicians offer answers to crime, low growth, inequality and corruption, less democratically minded leaders may provide them instead.
When democratically elected politicians are competing over who's the best at mocking minorities, they're green-lighting those kinds of reactions.
He rejects what he terms "ideology" in foreign policy, including longstanding American commitments to democratically elected governments and civil liberties.
In 1953, the United States and England planned and executed a coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran.
Burma – a country ruled for 50 years by a succession of military dictators – will now have a democratically elected government.
Working to defeat the government of a democratically elected country is not without precedent, particularly in the Cold War era.
President Obama reiterated the United States's "unwavering support for the democratically elected, civilian government of Turkey," according to a statement.
Mahdi was Sudan's democratically elected prime minister when Bashir led his overthrow in 1989 in an Islamist-backed military coup.
In 1992, a faction of the Venezuelan military loyal to Hugo Chávez attempted a coup against the democratically elected government.
Still, the monolithic Chinese system can withstand challenges that may be utterly beyond the reach of any democratically elected leader.
Many of Ms. Rousseff's supporters said they were trying to fend off an effort to oust a democratically elected leader.
Even with a democratically elected government, the armed forces will effectively have the final say in the country's political future.
He'll take office on April 1, becoming the country's first democratically elected leader after half a century of military rule.
Once the bill leaves the House Communications Subcommittee it has a solid chance of passing the new Democratically-controlled House.
So even as the Egyptian military overthrew the democratically elected government, the United States continued to give it military aid.
" Established in 2006, the Ibrahim Prize goes to democratically African leaders who have left office after their "constitutionally mandated term.
The military had seized power six weeks earlier, overthrowing a democratically elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
To be clear, Trump is a democratically elected leader who is subject to democratic oversight and the rule of law.
Put another way, the question is whether China's Communist rulers can allow part of their territory to govern itself democratically.
Democratically elected lawmakers in the opposition camp have been facing costly lawsuits filed by the government to disqualify their seats.
In June 2012, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsy, became Egypt's first democratically-elected President.
But two Democratically-nominated judges (who are more likely to think climate change is a problem) just tossed the case.
Cipollone described the Ukraine investigation as an illegal attempt to remove a democratically elected president and avert his re-election.
It was also hit by the death of its founder, Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia's first democratically elected president, in July.
In June 2012, Mohammed Morsy, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, became Egypt's first democratically elected president.
His government is nominally socialist, but with Maduro's assorted power grabs and silencing of critics, Venezuela is not governed democratically.
It is in these democratically-elected officials, not the courts, that American people retain the precious freedom to govern themselves.
A key development to watch is whether the Democratically-controlled House committees will subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton.
In June 2012, political prisoner and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsy, became Egypt's first democratically elected President.
His democratically elected successor has since accused Mr. Jammeh, above, of plundering the treasury and fleeing with millions of dollars.
It will be the first-time since 1944 that presidential power will have been transferred democratically and peacefully in Liberia.
Like Mr. Trump, democratically elected dictators have often believed that they don't owe political consideration to the minorities they vilify.
Brazil's fourth democratically elected president since the end of the military dictatorship was officially removed from office on Wednesday afternoon.
Credit unions are nonprofit, democratically-operated financial cooperatives that are owned by their members, and a competitor to traditional banks.
Vaz will be the first democratically elected president to have completed a full term in the country of 1.6 million.
Is it our democratically elected government and representatives here or someone somewhere else with different kind of public policy considerations?
The EU, which froze aid to Moldova last year, said it was "ready to work with the democratically legitimate government".
In 2013, Sisi led a military coup to overthrow Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected, if controversial, leader who replaced Mubarak.
It's a perspective that sees nationalism as a check on imperialism and democratically imperfect international organizations like the European Union.
A party that is not meaningfully restrained by shared norms of conduct cannot long be legally or democratically restrained either.
But foreign aid that had been stopped under Jammeh is coming back, a mark of confidence in the democratically elected government.
America's senior law enforcement and intelligence officials were directly involved in the targeting of a democratically elected president for political assassination.
The Constitutional Court upheld the parliamentary motion, making her South Korea's first democratically elected president to be forced out of office.
He later stressed Washington's "absolute support" for the democratically elected government during a phone call with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
" "We democratically accept these (election) results," she said, adding, "We wish much luck to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his campaign allies.
He also stated that the United States opposed any attempt to overthrow a democratically elected leader, The New York Times reported.
The titular head of the government in nine of them is a sultan (democratically appointed chief ministers actually run the show).
The United States has repeatedly said it supports the democratically elected civilian Turkish government, but there is a host of ramifications.
Two years later, union activists supported the mass protests that led to the ouster of Mubarak's democratically elected successor, Mohamed Mursi.
The big picture: The ruling military junta, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, overthrew a democratically elected government in 2014.
"The Greek government has vehemently condemned ... the coup attempt and supported the democratically elected government in our neighboring country," it said.
The Legislative Council, also known as Legco, is a body left over from British rule, part of which is democratically elected.
In those years, shares in state enterprises were handed out democratically to 98% of the Soviet population, from children to grandparents.
Frederick Chiluba, Zambia's first democratically elected president, was charged with stealing nearly $20083,000 of public funds after standing down in 2002.
Some see Pashinyan as a demagogue who is trying to oust the country's democratically elected leaders by whipping up public anger.
As a result, the United State Congress looks less like America than other democratically elected legislatures resemble the citizens they represent.
And we do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically-elected government of an ally.
If the Constitutional Court upholds parliament's decision, she will be the first democratically elected South Korean leader to leave office early.
The Maldives has been plagued by unrest since Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012.
Donald Trump was democratically elected as president of the United States, and Muse has threatened to make a hip-hop album.
And who doesn't appreciate a modern executive branch that operates far beyond its proper constitutional boundaries suffering a democratically-enacted setback?
Confronted with these forces, there is little incentive for our democratically elected leaders to question the goal of the ultimate cure.
The Trump administration took a liberal approach to its antitrust case, and now, its hopes may rest on Democratically appointed judges.
President Xi Jinping courts popularity by kissing babies, cultivating a public persona more akin to that of a democratically elected politician.
After an assembly of delegates paves the way for democratic institutions in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai became the first democratically elected leader.
His party came to power in 21980 with the overthrow of the democratically elected president Mel Zelaya in a military coup.
Including the disqualified legislators charged on Wednesday, ten out of the city's 30 democratically elected opposition lawmakers are fighting court cases.
For better or worse, there is no democratically legitimate European-wide fiscal system, and the euro is still vulnerable to crises.
The U.S. State Department voiced confidence on Monday that Brazil would navigate the political crisis democratically in accordance with the constitution.
But freedom means more than the ability to speak your mind, practice your religion, or choose your own democratically elected leaders.
A lack of congressional oversight and reauthorization debates allow federal bureaucracies to write our laws instead of our democratically elected representatives.
What we're doing is simply putting our foot down, because our democratic society isn't behaving democratically—it's attacking our fundamental rights.
The two men were discussing football — and the violent overthrow of a democratically elected government 21975,22 miles away with their assistance.
But Anthony's words are a reminder that the right to vote is a bedrock of our ability to govern ourselves democratically.
And fifth, protesters are demanding universal suffrage — not Beijing's version, but a legitimate opportunity for Hongkongers to democratically choose their leaders.
With a government bent on curbing freedoms and an economy in decline, options for the country's democratically-oriented youths are limited.
Beijing views the democratically self-governed island, which has never been controlled by the Communist Party, as part of its territory.
Should it uphold the impeachment, Ms. Park would become the country's first democratically elected president to be thrown out of office.
"Frankly, we believe the sooner Facebook and other companies are subject to democratically accountable rules on this the better," Leathern wrote.
"I can't think of any other director who is so instinctively and democratically interested in everybody he shows you," she wrote.
By the time he was democratically elected three decades later, in 2015, it was on promises to tackle corruption and insecurity.
"I can't think of any other director who is so instinctively and democratically interested in everybody he shows you," Kael wrote.
If the Democratically controlled House were to vote for impeachment, the Republican-controlled Senate would hold a trial on the evidence.
Mr. Najib criticized the Bersih coalition for trying to bring down his government, which he says was fairly and democratically elected.
This erosion is happening around the world, and perversely, in many cases the leaders challenging democratic norms were themselves democratically elected.
You conducted a fake investigation upon the democratically elected President of the United States, and you are doing it yet again.
That you get the kind of society you are willing to invest in democratically, and democracy is not a supermarket, right?
One would think that reaching out to American allies — especially democratically elected ones — would be a vital part of that job.
Guaidó, who was recently sworn in as president of the democratically elected National Assembly, said Maduro was a "usurper" of the office.
"I alone can fix" the nation's problems, he said in a style more typical of an autocrat than a democratically elected leader.
Buhari first came to power in December of 1983 when, as a military leader, he overthrew the democratically elected president Shehu Shagari.
But because the DUP controversially deployed what's known as a "petition of concern," they were able to veto the democratically approved proposal.
Botero, the former Special Rapporteur, says that the climate of self-censorship in Mexico should not exist under a democratically elected government.
Immediately after taking charge, el-Sisi suspended the constitution and tossed the country's first-ever democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, into jail.
Will the result be a country any more able to chart its own course, as chosen by its own democratically elected leaders?
Y., honed in on libra's governance last time, emphasizing that the members controlling the currency are corporations and are not democratically elected.
"I urge Beijing to choose the path of peace, respect, and civility by resuming dialogue with Taiwan's democratically elected administration," he said.
He disagrees with Saudi Arabia over its confrontation with Iran, its blockade of Qatar and its rejection of democratically elected Islamist governments.
The availability of a wealth of data will create a new ground for how decisions will be made by democratically accountable politicians.
Nasheed was the Maldives' first democratically elected leader but was ousted in 2012 in a coup, imprisoned then granted asylum in Britain.
Rousseff told CNN earlier this year that low approval ratings shouldn't fuel a push to remove a democratically elected leader from office.
The prince has bankrolled a regional campaign against Islamists, supporting the overthrow in 2013 of Egypt's democratically elected Islamist president, Muhammad Morsi.
Within the commission, officials are reluctant to appear to be lecturing a democratically elected government as it goes about implementing campaign promises.
In response, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on the bloc to stop defending those aiming to "remove Turkey's democratically elected government".
She would be the country's first democratically elected leader to be removed from office early if the Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment.
The Indian Ocean island nation has been mired in political unrest since Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in 2012.
"The Houses of Parliament are there democratically to represent the people and therefore ostensibly the decision should lie with them," Halford said.
He jabbed at Hosni Mubarak, and when Mubarak fell he jabbed at his democratically elected successor, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
To trim the Commons while stuffing the Lords (more than 250 new peers were ennobled under David Cameron's government) is democratically dubious.
There are simply no more excuses for delaying the will of the people, which was expressed freely and democratically this past Sunday.
Unlike mainland China, Taiwan has democratically-elected leaders and was the first place in Asia to rule in favor of gay marriage.
"We must tackle the historical disadvantages which have made women political outsiders," said Sirleaf, who was Africa's first democratically elected woman president.
Should the Constitutional Court uphold the impeachment, she would become the country's first democratically elected president to be thrown out of office.
Elections were restored, but every time Mr. Thaksin's allies have secured control of the government, and democratically, they, too, have been ousted.
Sisi came into power in a military coup that forced out democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, who died in court in June.
Sisi became president in 20183, a year after the military ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
While he condemned the attempt to oust Turkey's democratically elected government, Mr. Obama said he could not short-circuit that legal process.
Whether disdaining democratically-enacted laws, such as our voting or immigration laws, is a shrewd or foolhardy campaign strategy, we shall see.
When Abdoulaye Wade was democratically elected as president of Senegal in 28503, it was a huge step forward for democracy in Africa.
When al-Sisi became Egypt's first democratically-elected leader since Mohamed Morsi in 2013, he won almost 97 percent of the vote.
There, as in Turkey, a powerful military in a country with a history of coups rebelled against a democratically elected Islamist government.
The former military commander was democratically voted out of office in 292 but took power again in 1997 during a civil war.
The former military commander was democratically voted out of office in 1992 but took power again in 1997 during a civil war.
Again and again, people were organizing themselves in creative forms of cooperative enterprise, democratically owned and managed by those who took part.
The law had not been enforced since the democratically elected government led by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi took power in March.
But we know that we're going into the year with a GOP president and Senate and a Democratically controlled House of Representatives.
The American-led coalition had driven out the Taliban, and the country had a new constitution and its first democratically elected president.
Mr. Sisi, a former military general, rose to power in 2013 after deposing Mohamed Morsi, an unpopular but democratically elected Islamist president.
Numerous proposals to amend the primary process have been authored, all of which seek to make this broken system more democratically viable.
They are seeking to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is stepping down after two terms as Africa's first democratically elected female president.
It also helped create the conditions for the 1973 coup in which a military junta overthrew Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.
Five months later, the Spanish Civil War erupted, when fascist forces led by General Franco revolted against the democratically elected Republican government.
Earlier this month Iraq's democratically elected parliament passed a resolution demanding that its government begin discussions for the withdrawal of US troops.
It should do the best it can to enable the policy of this president, who was elected democratically by the American people.
The agency has a long history of destroying records related to the overthrow of democratically elected governments, mind control experiments and torture.
Brazil's democratic institutions are under threat: The president's son Carlos said last week that the changes Brazil needs cannot be achieved democratically.
"To that end, the $150 billion would go to creating "publicly owned and democratically controlled, co-operative, or open access broadband networks.
Kerry said he had phoned the Turkish foreign minister and underlined "absolute support for Turkey's democratically elected, civilian government and democratic institutions".
The court attempted to seize legislative power from the democratically-elected legislature, and thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in protest.
The problem is that, since a coup against the democratically elected government in 2014, Thailand has been ruled by a military junta.
Only a democratically integrated Europe can keep the peace and thus secure, with U.S. military leadership, both continental peace and American interests.
And can the forms of resistance that worked against Communist and fascist dictatorships work against the democratically elected illiberal governments of today?
While the European Union has issued strong statements in support of Venezuela's democratically elected leaders, EU member states have yet to recognize Guaidó.
Piyasvasti, who was president from 2009 to 2012, brought the airline into profitability but was removed abruptly by the then democratically-elected government.
Re-elected in 2006, he became the first democratically elected president to serve a full term in the country, known for political turmoil.
Rousseff told CNN's Christiane Amanpour last month that low approval ratings shouldn't fuel a push to remove a democratically elected leader from office.
"The international community, which recognizes Juan Guaidó and the democratically elected National Assembly as Venezuela's legitimate government, cannot ignore Putin's meddling," Rubio said.
Politicians in the Democratically controlled state, which has an immigrant population in the millions, have repeatedly clashed with the administration over the issue.
We need to make a conscious decision to go in another direction by creating a more modern and democratically competitive kind of conservatism.
It is not simple hypocrisy to talk of peace and democracy while knocking over democratically elected governments and propping up friendly authoritarian states.
Then there is, of course, Putin -- another democratically elected president who has managed to cement his position, decimate the opposition and devastate democracy.
Chile has long maintained it had fairly convicted the guerrillas under a democratically elected government that followed Pinochet's nearly two decades in power.
Her longtime confidante Htin Kyaw was sworn in as the country's first democratically-elected president in March, ending 56 years of military rule.
In keeping with his branding as a political maverick, he leads the first democratically elected Czech government to have worked with the Communists.
Even if the bill passes the Democratically controlled House, the MORE Act will likely have a tougher time in the Republican-controlled Senate.
"The United States congratulates President Tsai Ing-wen on her inauguration as Taiwan's fourth democratically elected president," the American Institute in Taiwan said.
Others suggested Ireland, for resisting a form of Brexit that would undermine Irish peace; and also for settling its vexed abortion debate democratically.
The big picture: This will be the first election since current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha overthrew the democratically elected government in 2014.
All democratically elected leaders should be held to account for their character, their honesty and their effect on the fabric of their nations.
Lochnerism is a fundamentally anti-democratic legal doctrine rooted in the idea that property rights should override laws made by democratically elected officials.
" Asked why GV wasn't run more democratically, he told me, " I have no idea, because I've never worked as a venture capitalist before.
Lula's election in 2002 showed that a member of the working class could gain power democratically in a country marked by great inequality.
Not content with a military assault on Ukraine, the Kremlin also is waging a propaganda campaign, which attempts to undermine democratically elected leaders.
The "pink tide" that brought leftist leaders democratically to the presidency at the turn of the 21st century is receding, often in shame.
Flexible, reasonably competent and democratically ratified political authorities really do play almost as large a role in the modern economy as competitive markets.
Those numbers paint a dire picture for Republicans -- particularly when you consider what a Democratically-controlled House might mean for Trump's White House.
Often seen as a potential threat to democracy, the agencies are now among its strongest defenders – in opposition to a democratically elected politician.
But, in an absurd twist, the legitimate representatives of a large, democratically governed area in the country will not be invited to attend.
On Monday morning, opposition supporters met at a statue of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, who was assassinated in 1961.
Trump went from verbally attacking the democratically elected Prime Minister of Canada, America's neighbor and loyal ally, to unnecessarily praising a brutal tyrant.
No democratically elected legislative body has ever voted to take control of their nation's "means of production," except to the most modest extent.
Three decades of authoritarian rule under Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ended in 2008, when he was replaced by a democratically elected president, Mr. Nasheed.
In 1953, the US backed a coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government and then supported the repressive rule of Shah Reza Pahlavi.
"This power grab is designed to supplant the democratically-elected National Assembly with an authoritarian committee operating above the law," the statement said.
The public option meant people had another choice: a nonprofit, democratically governed plan that would be modeled after a program most Americans love.
And neither were the other 12 democratically elected heads of states of ECOWAS, many of whom defeated entrenched incumbents in their own countries.
While it has a sophisticated digital strategy, the party has no members and no manifesto, and none of its candidates were democratically selected.
Of the other half determined to dismiss sexual improprieties, defend a democratically elected leader and move on with the business of the country.
It also showed that strongmen, whom Mr. Trump has so ardently cultivated, can be as frustrating to negotiate with as democratically elected leaders.
And I think we should let our — flawed as they may be — democratically elected and enforced institutions update the rules for the world.
Many tech companies also promote themselves as inherently pro-worker because they are less hierarchical, and more democratically run, than old-economy businesses.
This mischievous idyll comes crashing down when Burundi's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, is assassinated in 1993 after winning a landmark election.
Africa has seen charismatic leaders elected democratically and celebrated by the West only for those leaders to change the rules to fit them.
The resulting conservative court majority has proved strongly activist, with justices willing to substitute their own judgments for those of democratically elected legislators.
Park became the first democratically elected leader in South Korea to be removed from office, triggering a snap election to choose her successor.
In 6900, he nearly succeeded in overthrowing #Montenegro's democratically elected government & murdering its prime minister in order to prevent it from joining #NATO.
The Democratically led House Intelligence Committee wants to see the complaint, but Joseph Maguire, the acting Director of National Intelligence, has blocked that.
China's ruling Communist Party considers Taiwan, a democratically governed island, to be part of China, and the two sides have no formal ties.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1953, the overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh set a historic, chilling precedent.
I think a lot of the risk that President Trump faces with going against a Democratically controlled Congress, that chance is pretty remote.
The military junta seized power from a democratically elected government in a 2014 coup and has since imposed draconian controls over civilian life.
General Sisi came to power after the military ousted Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the country's first-ever democratically elected president.
Park, who remains in the presidential Blue House, could become the first democratically elected leader in South Korea to be forced from office.
"The Syrian people independently determine the future of its country democratically by way of the vote," the agency quoted the document as saying.
The election was the first in Mauritania's history since independence from France in 1960 to choose a successor to a democratically-elected president.
The investigation is one of several by the Democratically controlled House that U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, and his administration are fighting.
Since the Republic was founded in 0003, there have been four coups where the military succeeded in taking power from democratically elected governments.
Sturgeon says it is "democratically unacceptable" to take Scotland out of the EU and has suggested the Scottish parliament could block British Brexit legislation.
Former NSA attorney and Brookings Institution fellow Susan Hennessey wonders who determines which lawbreakers deserve to be wiretapped, if not a democratically elected government?
President Trump yesterday, as well, blaming the sharp downturn on the, quote, "Prospect of presidential harassment," by the incoming democratically controlled house of representatives.
By showing up in large numbers, they are asking our democratically elected officials to notice the will of the people before they make decisions.
The world's leading democracies, the European Union, Canada, and most Latin American countries support the man who leads the country's only democratically elected body.
The largely peaceful election was the first in the history of the West African country to choose a successor to a democratically elected president.
"Democratically non-legitimate committees and investor- friendly mediation courts would start work ... all without the agreement of the lower house of parliament," they added.
If parliament's impeachment is upheld by the Constitutional Court, Park will become South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office early.
If only we had a Congress,  questions about the price at ports  would be handled by the largest democratically elected group in our government.
This is happening despite the fact that for many years, Erdogan was hailed as an example of a moderate, successful, democratically-minded Muslim leader.
Konrad Szymanski, Poland's Europe minister, says simply that the government was democratically elected and has the support of voters for what it is doing.
The normal for Turkey is that any saber-rattling by the Turkish military would either make the democratically elected government back down or resign.
The market has been on the back foot after Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Mursi died while on trial in a Cairo court.
It's free to access, and users can submit their own tags to index entries, which invites the public to help democratically shape the archive.
I believe the United States, the European Union and Turkey's Western allies must support the democratically elected government with more than just simple words.
It was America, after all, that installed Pahlavi after helping topple the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosaddegh, a nationalist prime minister, in 1953.
"I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 percent of Labour members and supporters," Corbyn wrote.
Every few weeks Egypt's only democratically elected president, deposed in a coup in 2013, would appear in court to answer one charge or another.
Wong is due to be sentenced on Thursday alongside former student leader Alex Chow and Nathan Law, 24, the youngest ever democratically elected lawmaker.
If the decision is upheld by the Constitutional Court, she will become South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office early.
He first protested against Park Chung-hee, president from 20053 to 1979 and father of South Korea's current, democratically elected president, Park Geun-hye.
But Tusk rejected that argument, saying EU laws aimed for the Commission head to get "double legitimacy" from leaders and parliament — both democratically elected.
This legislation would remedy the design mistake the Democratically-controlled Congress made in 2010 when they sacrificed long-term vision for short-term gain.
On Wednesday, her close aide 70-year-old Htin Kyaw was sworn in as the country's first democratically elected president in half a century.
Mr Bongo's problem is that he seems to want to be judged as a real democratically-elected world statesman, not as a thuggish autocrat.
"We democratically accept the results of the electoral commission," said Ms. Fujimori, 41, surrounded by her brother, Kenji, and other lawmakers from her party.
Within the EU executive, officials are reluctant to appear to be lecturing a democratically elected Polish government as it goes about implementing campaign promises.
She was a key figure in the broad-based movement of peaceful resistance to the 2009 military coup that deposed Honduras's democratically elected president.
Earlier this week the United States warned that starting the elections from scratch could prolong the period Haiti remained without a democratically elected president.
Forcing a government shutdown is a blunt political tool for extracting concessions that are neither achieved democratically nor in the interest of American citizens.
Park, 65, became South Korea's first democratically elected president to be removed from office when a constitutional court upheld her parliamentary impeachment this month.
Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, later described in her memoirs how she maneuvered to keep the democratically elected president from returning to office.
Meanwhile, our democratically-elected Western allies, built on the same values as the United States, look on while Trump insults them at every turn.
Monday, January 22, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first women democratically elected to lead an Africa nation will turn power over to George Weah.
The Democratically controlled House will hold votes this week as well on funding measures to reopen the parts of the government that are closed.
Democratic socialists argue that the economy and society should be democratically run "to meet public needs," according to the Democratic Socialists of America website.
The last thing I want or support is censorship- is others not being able to voice their well-thought out opinions and democratically discuss.
By relying on boycotts, progressives may be influencing corporate policy, but they're not advancing their goal of restraining big business via democratically enacted regulations.
Louisiana's racist uprising failed, but President Grant had to send federal troops into New Orleans to ensure that the democratically elected Kellogg maintained power.
The leadership of the Jewish world always honors the choices made by the Israeli voter and acts in concert with Israel's democratically elected government.
The official, Essam Haddad, was the national security adviser to the Egyptian leader Mohammed Morsi, another Brotherhood leader and Egypt's first democratically elected president.
In 803, the United States supported the coup against the democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende which was led by General Augusto Pinochet.
On July 3, 2013, Sisi, who was the head of Egypt's armed forces, mounted a coup that overthrew the democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi.
The logic of running things more democratically is that people tend to have more faith in the resulting decisions — those choices are more legitimate.
Mr. López Obrador is only the fifth democratically elected president in the country's history, but he received a broad mandate for change last July.
And in recent years, politicians, including the democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, have implied that they were terrorists who threaten the nation.
After all, it will be Jeff Bezos deciding who to fund with this $10 billion, not taxpayers through the democratically elected United States government.
Of course, because Republicans aren't present for any votes, that means the measure's chances for passage, even in a Democratically controlled legislature, are slim.
Five years later, the C.I.A. engineered a coup against Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran's democratically elected leader, when the United States and Britain installed the Shah.
Morsy, a former Brotherhood leader who was the country's first democratically elected president following the fall of Mubarak, remains in prison awaiting a retrial.
No Democrat with the same position can claim this, and indeed we have seen similar democratically sponsored bills flounder and fail in years past.
Ultimately, the task must fall to Congress, which is the most democratically accountable branch of government and the one that oversees the fiscal budget.
The argument that an investigation into a democratically elected President could amount to a coup in all but name could be a powerful one.
"In no way was the statement meant to delegitimize criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments," the government's statement said.
The movie is set in the aftermath of the 2013 overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Real censure is subject to veto, making it difficult for Brussels to challenge democratically elected leaders, even when their practices in office are suspect.
The 1991 military coup d'etat deposing Haiti's democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide prompted thousands of Haitians to seek asylum in the United States.
The group has been tolerated in Indonesia despite openly rejecting the secular, democratically elected government and the pluralist, multireligious national ideology, known as Pancasila.
But in Tunisia a democratically chosen assembly passed a progressive constitution in 2014, and three rounds of free and fair elections have taken place.
Instead, demonstrators say these countries are governed by democratically-elected kleptocracies, with the political elite deeply entrenched thanks to convoluted sectarian power-sharing systems.
But Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with my book about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman democratically elected president of an African country.
Following the crisis over the past several years, we hear more and more frustration from Rohingya survivors and leaders in Myanmar's democratically elected leadership.
Mandela knew his task as the first democratically elected president of South Africa was to unite a divided country and to not show bitterness.
Why it matters: The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported on Thursday that characterizing Xi as "president" implies he was democratically elected.
The National Assembly, which is the only democratically elected institution remaining in the country, was right to designate Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's interim president.
In its pages, baroque passages on the nobility of bottoming and the scent of sex collide democratically, mischievously, with appreciations of Proust and Haydn.
"We think democratically elected governments should be in the business of regulating technology companies — not the other way around," Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said.
Twitter's decision will inevitably encourage criticism — particularly from the right — that it is silencing speech from a democratically elected president of the United States.
Maduro says he was democratically elected and the current efforts to remove him, along with the overall crisis, are being orchestrated by the United States.
"Mayor Rawlings will welcome him to the city, as is customary for the mayor to do for democratically elected presidents of major countries," he added.
Frustrated with the shortcomings of democratically-elected governments in the past, a growing number of Filipinos are giving into democratic fatigue and embracing autocratic nostalgia.
The stadium was used as a detention and torture center for opponents of the regime following the coup that overthrew the democratically elected Salvador Allende.
When highly committed parties strongly believe [in] things that they cannot achieve democratically, they don't give up on their beliefs — they give up on democracy.
That would whittle down the huge and democratically unaccountable Brussels bureaucracy, and it would repatriate a large amount of authority transferred to the EU Commission.
Many local authorities, who have contemplated their response to the opioid epidemic in recent years, had expected leeway from Democratically run White House by 2018.
"Democratically leaning districts will see less damages going forward than Republican ones," Mark Muro, a senior fellow and policy director of Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program.
By the 20th century, the bank, which was a private company until 1946, found its aims starting to conflict with those of democratically elected governments.
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye has become the country's first democratically elected leader to be forced out of office — and people are pretty pleased.
"The fact that there are tensions between our armed groups must be resolved peacefully," Mahdi, Sudan's last democratically elected premier, told Reuters in an interview.
This does not have to expose Britain's detailed negotiating position with Brussels, but it should allow our democratically elected representatives to scrutinize the broad terms.
In it, she set conditions for cooperation with Trump, a provocative message from a close ally to the democratically elected leader of the United States.
If Park's impeachment is upheld by the Constitutional Court, she will become the first democratically elected leader in South Korea to be removed from office.
By picking Trump as their standard-bearer, Republican primary voters have created a genuine problem for American democracy—and it can only be solved democratically.
Park faces an impeachment vote on Friday, laying the ground for her to be the first democratically elected leader to leave office early in disgrace.
The state's finance minister, Markus Soeder, told Der Spiegel that Merkel's refugee policy was not democratically legitimized and said parliament should vote on the matter.
It is the opportunity to turn the page peacefully and democratically on an unfair and cruel system that our country and continent are sinking into.
Next week will likely see Myanmar, one of Southeast Asia's investor darlings, choose its first democratically elected president since the military seized power in 1962.
The 2001 terrorist attacks on America also helped persuade the West that the democratically elected, mild-mannered and pro-business AK party was worth supporting.
Obama conferred with his national security and foreign policy advisers on Saturday morning and reiterated his support for the "democratically-elected, civilian" government of Turkey.
Aleppo City is not extremist territory; Aleppo is the place where the first democratically-elected provincial council anywhere in Syria since the 1960s took office.
Guaidó, as head of the opposition-led National Assembly, has been internationally recognized as the only democratically elected leader with a claim to Venezuela's presidency.
While I agree wholeheartedly, I also enjoy imagining this vote, conducted by scientists at the Royal Geographic Society of London, democratically including all living species.
In Maduro's place, they have elevated Juan Guaidó, who as president of the democratically-elected National Assembly is next in the constitutional line of succession.
Speaking to journalists this morning, Ms Sturgeon said that it was "democratically unacceptable" for Scotland to be yanked out of the EU against its will.
Direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians cannot be replaced by ill-conceived international proposals that hope to impose a solution on Israel's democratically elected government.
"There's something to be said for belonging to something, and I do think there's something to be said about a democratically controlled institution," she said.
Praising a brutal K.G.B. dictator, especially as preferable to a democratically elected U.S. president, whether you like Obama or hate him, is despicable and dangerous.
"You can be elected democratically but lose legitimacy over time through your actions," Eladio Loizaga Caballero, the foreign minister of Paraguay, said in an interview.
In November 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of the Republic of Liberia, becoming the first woman democratically elected to lead an African nation.
The Maldives has been beset by political instability since a police mutiny forced its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, out of office in 2012.
The system, which is currently only available for English language content, "democratically scores the integrity and trustworthiness of online news sources", as eyeo puts it.
Sensing the bill's probable failure, the farmers stopped at Texas Roadhouse and over rounds of beers took solace in having tried to remedy things democratically.
While King Bhumibol was said to hover impartially above politics, both putsch-makers and democratically elected leaders needed him to sanctify their time in office.
Lam steps down, democracy activists would demand that her successor be chosen democratically — a proposal that China is unlikely to allow in the semiautonomous city.
A political crisis and deepening social rifts had polarized the country, and in 2014 the democratically elected government had been deposed in a military coup.
The theory states that democratically elected governments of nation states face hard constraints on their power when their countries integrate deeply into the world economy.
Student Challenge: Ask students to scan The Times to find evidence of authoritarian, or even fascist-leaning, behavior by democratically elected leaders around the world.
China's leaders did fumble at the very start, yet in short order they acted far more decisively than many democratically elected leaders have to date.
The ruling could allow Mr. Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected president, to challenge President Abdulla Yameen when he seeks re-election later this year.
They are policy choices, decisions we've collectively made — perhaps not consciously or explicitly, certainly not choices that were debated transparently and democratically — but choices nonetheless.
As if all that weren't bad enough, this deal goes further than NAFTA by giving corporations even more power to challenge democratically enacted environmental safeguards.
Surely, instead of letting the Silicon Six decide the fate of the world order, our democratically elected representatives should have at least some say. Amen.
Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges last March after a rapid trial that drew international condemnation.
Mr. Junqueras has also received support from fellow European lawmakers who have protested the moves to prevent a democratically elected politician from taking his seat.
The central contradiction of the civil-rights movement was that it was a quest for democracy led by organizations that frequently failed to function democratically.
Warren starts by saying she would push a Democratically controlled Congress to pass a Medicare public option in the first 100 days of her presidency.
Three democratically elected presidents in a row were overthrown by street protests, including one colorful actor who was disposed after only six months in office.
In reality, the CFPB is a political entity with arbitrary powers, pushed quickly through by a Democratically-controlled Congress and signed by a Democratic president.
Meanwhile, government officials argue that they should take control, just as Black feared, because they are democratically elected officials who are beholden to the electorate.
Meanwhile, Juan Guaido -- the leader of the democratically elected Venezuelan National Assembly who last week declared himself the country's interim president -- finds himself under investigation.
If Ms. Park resigns or is impeached, she will be the first democratically elected South Korean president not to complete a full five-year term.
Israelis pay serious attention to the positions of our brethren across the Atlantic, and ultimately the Israeli Knesset — elected democratically by the Israeli citizens — legislates.
Mr. Fujimori was believed to be the world's first democratically elected former president to be found guilty of human rights violations in his own country.
" She added: "The European Union has a political and moral responsibility to support dialogue to identify how the situation can be resolved peacefully and democratically.
It also comes amid several recent successes by China in luring away some of the few nations that diplomatically recognize the democratically self-ruled island.
The government's supporters allege that the proceedings amount to little more than a desperate attempt to unseat a democratically elected president, tantamount to a coup.
The Islamist insurgency in the region has increased since the military overthrew the democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013.
Park, 65, became the first democratically elected leader to be removed from office when the Constitutional Court on March 10 upheld her December impeachment by parliament.
They didn't brag about that, though, and at least in public spent more time praising democratically elected leaders with liberal values like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
While it's a good thing that Nazis are being booted offline, should it be at the whim of tech companies, instead of say, democratically elected regulators?
Today, the ordinary mechanisms of a peaceful transition of power are on full display, with Barack Obama welcoming his democratically elected successor into the White House.
As a special administrative region of the mainland, Hong Kong is unable to democratically elect its own leaders so Beijing has final say on the matter.
But we also must take seriously the problem their visibility raises: How do we dissent and disagree democratically when we no longer know what's worth debating?
As a special administrative region of the mainland, Hong Kong is unable to democratically elect its own leaders, with Beijing ruling out open nominations in 2014.
I do not relish those sorts of constraints on a democratically elected body, let alone on an agency unwilling to reduce everything to a numerical calculation.
In a riposte, Cavusoglu called on the EU to stop defending "those who are engaging in activities with the aim of removing Turkey's democratically elected government".
In the worst-case scenario, it foreshadows a future in which drinkable water is up for grabs to the highest bidder rather than democratically accountable officials.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is going to court to try to block a Democratically-controlled congressional committee from obtaining his financial records through a subpoena.
The installation emphasizes an anti-formalist position, in which the works are placed democratically next to one another, and directly on the floor without a base.
If it does, Park would become South Korea's first democratically elected leader to leave office in disgrace and an election would be held in two months.
Of the four combinations of President and Senate, a Democratically-controlled White House matched up against a Republican Senate yields an 11.2 percent average annual return.
A year later, equal gender pay rights were enshrined in law, and by 1980, citizens voted in Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the world's first democratically elected female president.
A statement from the Barisan Nasional government released on Saturday also declared it was unlawful for parties to unseat a democratically-elected administration via street protests.
Democratically rendering cultural and natural transformations, Matter reveals an unaccountable world where water seeps red, cement cubes fall from the sky, and green foxes are unearthed.
Comedian Amy Schumer has thrown "mother***ers" out of her show for heckling -- after democratically asking the audience to clap if they wanted the guy tossed.
One agent of Mr Yameen's troubles is Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected president, who was ousted in what was in effect a coup in 2012.
And there are arguments from good government reformers, too, that such a reform would make the Senate more democratically responsive and help presidents enact their agenda.
Chile's autonomy has been hard fought over a period lasting 248 years; in 22014, the country welcomed Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende.
As Justice Felix Frankfurter explained more than 70 years ago, the courts should allow the democratically-elected branches to correct errors that become evident by experience.
Patricia Esse, 40: The removal of a democratically elected president represents a major setback in the development of the country and a disrespect for its citizens.
"The coming period will be a test for us, no one will be excluded," said leading opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan's last democratically elected premier.
It was democratically elected by a sizeable portion of Lebanese Shiites, a legitimate constituency who lacked any alternative credible care-giver to secure their legitimate needs.
It returned to the bad times of the 70s," Fernandez told a local radio, adding that it was "guaranteeing military interventions against popular, democratically elected governments.
The fact of the matter is that the Kabul government is a democratically elected government, and it should be the sole seat of power and authority.
The recent death of Mohamed Morsi, the only democratically elected president in Egyptian history, is merely the latest example of a failed approach to the region.
In a 33-page rebuttal, Nicaragua said the U.N. Human Rights Office report issued in Geneva had ignored violence aimed at overthrowing a democratically elected government.
Park, 65, became the country's first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office when the Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary impeachment vote on March 10.
His rival Mohamed Nasheed, became the Maldives' first democratically elected president in 2009, but he was forced to resign amid a mutiny by police in 2012.
If the Constitutional Court affirms the parliamentary vote, Park would become the first democratically elected leader of Asia's fourth-biggest economy to be forced from office.
So when the democratically-elected representatives of the most powerful nation in the world dispense with civility and the aspiration of building consensus, we all lose.
They fought on the Republican side, in defense of the democratically elected leftist government of Spain, and against the Nationalists, the military rebels led by Gen.
There are a lot of wealthy people putting money into an outfit that will succeed based on whether or not it can change democratically made rules.
In 1954, the CIA helped organize a military coup to overthrow Guatemala's democratically elected government, and continued to train the Guatemalan military well into the 70s.
When pressed by Baier about whether he would step down to "end the violence and to help your country," Ortega refused, saying he was democratically elected.
For instance, it claimed to back the democratic aspirations of the Arab Spring protesters in Egypt, and did indeed support the country's first democratically elected government.
The embarrassing defeat in the war was the beginning of the end for the junta, which gave way to a democratically elected government in December 1983.
Turkey proceeded to jail its democratically elected Kurdish lawmakers, who might have helped sideline P.K.K. hard-liners, and Mr. Ocalan has been held incommunicado ever since.
The group has been forced underground since the Egyptian military overthrew Mohamed Morsi, the country's democratically elected and Brotherhood-backed president, in the summer of 2013.
I was happy to be there with the brave citizens of Brazil who were democratically protesting and lamenting against the election of the stupid, brutal man.
The continuing persecution of the Rohingya represents a colossal moral failure on the part of Myanmar's democratically elected government, led by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
This includes the release of all political prisoners, respect for the democratically elected National Assembly, and general elections managed by a newly appointed, independent electoral commission.
The Trump administration would also need the support of Congress to make such a change, which analysts suggest might be difficult in the Democratically controlled House.
And, why is it dangerous when a democratically elected leader claims popular support for changes that undermine democratic institutions, such as stripping away checks and balances?
Nowhere will they be told that a small, demographically homogeneous minority is using once-extraordinary measures to routinely thwart the will of the democratically elected majority.
"I commend [President-elect] Trump for reaching out to the democratically-elected President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen," Salmon said in a statement to The Hill.
"THE FINAL WORD FROM THE PRES OF THE U.S." sounds more like a dictum from the great and powerful Oz than from a democratically elected leader.
Operation Contain the President is preferable to the deep destabilization that would result from removing a democratically elected president absent significant new evidence to warrant it.
Proponents of the pipeline counter that band councils are democratically elected and have signed agreements with Coastal GasLink to provide much-needed jobs for their people.
The so-called pink tide of democratically elected left-wing governments, which washed over the region in the first decade of the 2000s, has now receded.
Without review by the courts to ensure compliance with the Constitution, the democratically elected branches rule unconstrained by either constitutional directive or the rule of law.
Sisi came to power after leading the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, following mass protests against him in 2013.
In June, authorities arrested the democratically elected Lin, just days after he made a public appeal for a mass march against fresh illegal seizures of land.
"Republicans politicize the judiciary so they can accomplish policy goals that they wouldn't be able to do through the democratically elected branches of government," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he phoned the Turkish foreign minister and underlined "absolute support for Turkey's democratically elected, civilian government and democratic institutions".
A fierce Kurdish nationalist, he was the first democratically elected head of state in a land with a history going back to the dawn of civilization.
It's important to note that Pakistan's government, although democratically elected, does not have the power to control or influence the far-reaching and powerful military establishment.
Earlier this month Mugabe said his successor must be chosen democratically by the ruling party, but that it would not be his wife as some have speculated.
As it penetrates more deeply into national fiscal and other domestic policies, the case for a democratically elected chamber to keep it in check is becoming stronger.
A report last year found that 72% of Americans born before the second world war thought it "essential" to live in a country that was governed democratically.
She has repeatedly denied committing any crime and calls the impending impeachment trial a "coup d'etat" aimed at removing a democratically elected leader by any means possible.
However, Creighton says that every social network, no matter what its size, should be held to the same standards and that these standards should be democratically decided.
"Let's talk on how we solve the roots of the conflict ... that means to let the Catalan people decide their own future democratically and peacefully," he said.
Ksenia's father, Anatoly Sobchak, was the first democratically-elected mayor of Putin's home town of St. Petersburg in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"Democratically elected European parliaments will take pragmatic decisions about what's in their interest and they will choose to give tariff-free access to the UK," she added.
They say the billions of dollars showered on Egypt by Gulf Arab allies since Sisi overthrew his democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood predecessor in mid-2013, were wasted.
Obama did indeed see Turkey as playing a pivotal role in the Middle East — a moderate and democratically elected Muslim leader, the future of the Islamic world.
Pope Tawadros sat by Sisi's side as it was announced that Egypt's first democratically elected president had been removed from office, while Christians celebrated in the streets.
Despite activists' high hopes for the nation's first democratically elected government, State Chancellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has demonstrated hesitancy to speak openly on the issue.
The election was the first in the sparsely populated Saharan nation's history, since independence from France in 1960, to choose a successor to a democratically elected president.
"The situation unfolded in Turkey was a coup attempt to overthrow the democratically-elected government," the Turkish embassy in the U.S. said late Friday in a statement.
Monday is the anniversary of a May 22, 2014, military coup that toppled a democratically elected government and ended months of unrest, including sometimes deadly street demonstrations.
Opposition members in the Legislative Council face a series of legal battles that have already led to the expulsion of six democratically elected lawmakers from the legislature.
The background: This development is the latest in a rapidly unfurling political crisis rooted in the 2015 arrest of the Maldives' first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Nasheed.
After a show trial, Mr Beltagy was sentenced to death last year, along with dozens of other Brotherhood leaders, including the first democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi.
The Indian Ocean tourist island has been beset by political instability since a police mutiny forced its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, to quit in 2012.
The budget will now go to lawmakers in the Democratically-controlled state Assembly and Senate before a revised version of the budget is released again in May.
Wilayat Sinai has repeatedly launched attacks on Egyptian security personnel in the wake of the 2013 military coup that toppled Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically-elected president.
Obasanjo served twice as Nigeria's head of state: once as a military ruler in the 1970s and then again as a democratically-elected president from 1999-2007.
Nationally, some 44% of millennial voters are registering as independents rather than with a party, yet polls show this age group overwhelmingly self-identifies as Democratically-leaning.
If a Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment, Park would become South Korea's first democratically elected leader to leave office in disgrace, triggering an election two months later.
Park, 65, became South Korea's first democratically elected president to be removed from office when the Constitutional Court this month upheld her impeachment by parliament in December.
No one performance dominates the new "Ghostbusters," which is for the most part democratically comic (a Paul Feig signature), although Kate McKinnon's magnificent, eccentric turn comes close.
Throughout the 2000s, popular uprisings in Eastern Europe and Central Asia overturned their pro-Kremlin leaders, replacing them with democratically elected governments more inclined to the West.
" Since Mr. Sisi ousted the democratically elected Mr. Morsi and the next year became president himself, Egypt's relationship with Turkey has been, in Ms. Youssef's description, "terrible.
Let's remember that DNC members are democratically elected by Democratic Party officials from virtually all of the states and jurisdictions that participate in caucuses and primary elections.
Trump's efforts to bully Paul Ryan weren't so plainly illegitimate—unlike federal judges, Ryan and Trump both inhabit decidedly political realms—but they were democratically troubling nonetheless.
In becoming Egypt's first democratically-elected president in 2013, al-Sisi won 97 percent of the vote — but with a modest turnout of less than 50 percent.
It was the day after a coup by the Honduran military, business elites and right-wing political opposition removed the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, from office.
He first rose to power in 1979, ruling until he was democratically voted out in 1992, and then reclaiming power in 1997 during the country's civil war.
A presidential election in Liberia today will almost certainly bring a man to power, after 12 years under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first democratically elected female president.
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the president from 1980 to 1996 and the world's first democratically elected female head of state, said the "women's day off" had paved her way.
In both Shelby and Citizens United, five Republican appointees struck down democratically enacted laws, and in doing so wound up substantially increasing Republicans' odds of electoral success.
Yet in Paris, a historically prestigious and democratically minded group of Orthodox Christians took a big step towards realigning themselves from the Istanbul-based Patriarchate to Moscow.
Former President Mohamed Nasheed, who has become an international celebrity because of his work to combat climate change, was the country's first and only democratically elected leader.
What this is really about is the first battle in the war between Mr. Trump and the now Democratically controlled House for the soul of this country.
In New York City, Bloomberg was running for a third term because term limits had just been extended (by a majority of the Democratically controlled City Council).
Trump is a democratically elected strongman and Kim is a fratricidal despot, but they both live in bizarro fantasy worlds where lying and cheating is the norm.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's foreign ministry on Sunday urged Venezuela to allow the leadership of the National Assembly to be democratically elected in accordance with the constitution.
Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected head of state, died in July of a heart attack after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on espionage charges.
Park, the country's first democratically elected leader to be removed from office, is charged with taking bribes worth about 29.8 billion won ($26.65 million) from Lee alone.
In both cases, the court overturned democratically achieved legislation passed in response to women demanding equal protection of the law-- meaning protection from sexual and domestic violence.
The report notes that attacks on the media are "no longer limited to authoritarian countries" and that "democratically-elected leaders" no longer see the media as essential.
Mr. Guaidó is the polar opposite of President Nicolás Maduro: A young leader — he heads the democratically elected National Assembly — whose reputation is not marred by corruption.
If the impeachment vote is upheld by the Constitutional Court, Park will become South Korea's first democratically elected leader of South Korea to be forced from office.
However, unelected judges would be wise to tread carefully since their involvement could set the nation on a path that ends with removing a democratically elected president.
Thailand's election last Sunday — the first in eight years and since the military deposed a democratically elected government in 2014 — was expected to be a tough fight.
The House Ways and Means Committee lawsuit is the latest action as the Democratically controlled chamber pursues multiple investigations into the Republican president, his family and businesses.
Try not to think about it too hard.) And there's a democratically elected Senate, which Jar Jar Binks ends up on in the later films, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The ex-general overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after huge protests against Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood rule, before standing for election the following year.
"It is crucial, given the instability caused by the Brexit vote, that the country has a democratically elected prime minister," Labour party election co-ordinator Jon Trickett said.
The signing of PCA and talks on EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could resume with a democratically elected civilian government under the new Constitution, the statement said.
Many protesters said Park, whose public support has dropped to the lowest point ever for a democratically elected South Korean leader at 5 percent, was unfit to rule.
Meanwhile Taipei faces a backlash from China in many areas, as Beijing tries to pressure the democratically-elected Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to bend to its will.
A Constitutional Court ruling on whether to uphold the impeachment, which would result in South Korea's first democratically elected leader being thrown from office, is expected next month.
Because we saw what happened when we did that in Iran—a lot of Iranians still blame the US for toppling a democratically elected leader in the 1950s.
In the 26 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his election marked Central Asia's first peaceful handover of power from one democratically elected leader to another.
The daughter of the late Anatoly Sobchak, St Petersburg's first democratically elected mayor, who was once Mr Putin's mentor and boss, Ms Sobchak personifies the post-Soviet elite.
The Trump administration also should break diplomatic relations with Maduro and, instead, recognize members of the democratically elected National Assembly as the legitimate representatives of the Venezuelan people.
In 1994, "you had a president from one party democratically hand over power to an opposition party president for only the second time in 80 years," Winter explains.
Karzai replaced the Taliban's hardline Islamist rule as Afghanistan's first democratically elected leader after the Islamists were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, supported by U.S. air power.
The European Commission, despite its role as guardian of the EU treaties, often struggles to balance defence of the rule of law with respect for democratically elected governments.
If Park is impeached or resigns, a scenario which looks increasingly likely, she will be the first democratically elected South Korea president not to serve her full term.
Some people have attacked our democratically-elected-with-a-minority-of-the-public-vote President by saying that what he did was unconstitutional and an abuse of office.
Several stabilization plans aimed at reining in inflation dramatically failed, and Brazil's first democratically elected president since military rule, Fernando Collor, resigned during an impeachment trial in 1992.
His commitment to democratically elected leaders and fair play, outlined in his 1986 Inaugural Speech, sounds very different today, amid critiques of term length and abuses of power.
"I'm a democratically elected mayor who works for the good of the community," he told Reuters in an interview, when asked what being an FN mayor is about.
On Thursday, he will accept the results of the democratically decided contests that awarded him the Republican selection to serve as the 22019th president of the United States.
But by the summer of 2013, when Egypt's military forcibly removed the country's democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, Ms. Dunne soon realized there were limits to her independence.
"Europe would benefit democratically from a political recomposition," Macron said two months ago, saying he hoped that would come about after the European elections in late May 2019.
However, some 17 CDU members called on the party there to "actively take part in a process of talks with all democratically elected parties in the Thuringia assembly".
Candidates have to be democratically elected African heads of state or government who have left office in the previous three years at the end of their constitutional terms.
Since 2008, there have been democratically elected governments, but the army retains sweeping influence and any hint of discord stirs worries among advocates of a strong civilian government.
More and more democratically elected world leaders have openly sought to fuel a climate of hatred toward the media over the last 12 months, according to a study.
Mr. Corbyn has refused to resign, saying that he was democratically elected by the party's members, and vowed to run again if a new leadership contest were called.
That political intervention in 2013 led by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ousted the democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, and all but wiped out his Muslim Brotherhood.
Many of the village's democratically elected governing committee from 2012 has now been forced from office, with some of the corrupt old guard reinstated to their former positions.
The man behind that coup was Fiji's current Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, who was democratically elected in 2014 in the country's first free election in almost a decade.
Even as State Department officials announced their decision to call the violence "ethnic cleansing," they were careful not to attribute the violence directly to Myanmar's democratically elected leadership.
Alan McPherson: Letelier was the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, who had served under the Marxist but democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, from 1970 to 1973.
Guinea's first democratically elected president, Alpha Condé, won his reelection campaign in an internationally monitored, peaceful election in which the Guinean electorate reaffirmed its commitment to a democracy.
Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013 after the late Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was toppled by the military following widespread unrest.
It is individual Members of Parliament who are democratically accountable to the electorate at the ballot box and the government must not try to steamroll legislation through Parliament.
As US ambassador in Egypt, Patterson had performed typical functions with the democratically elected Islamist government of Mohammed Morsi, which made her suspect to Trump officials and supporters.
Mr. Prayuth is a military general who seized power from a democratically elected government in a bloodless coup in 2014, and has repeatedly postponed plans for free elections.
We had lawmakers who were democratically elected be disqualified because they did their oaths [of office] in a way to express their discontent of swearing allegiance to China.
But Iranian resentment had been simmering since 1953, when the United States and Britain overthrew a democratically elected Iranian prime minister, allowing the shah to return to power.
"It is a huge anomaly in the democratic world that people elected democratically are suffering prison," Joan Tardá, a lawmaker from the separatist party Esquerra Republicana, told reporters.
Abdel Aziz, who was elected in 2009 after seizing power in a coup that ended the tenure of the country's first democratically elected president, was hospitalized in 2012.
Overall, though, the supreme leader and other unelected institutions will continue to remain firmly in control of balance of power, at the expense of Iran's democratically elected institutions.
And democratically elected governments were routinely tossed out because they had either failed to prevent the crisis, or were unable to manage the resulting public debt — or both.
In other accounts, Saigon and its partner in Washington valiantly defend a flawed but democratically minded South Vietnam from Communist forces determined to subject it to Stalinist tyranny.
The United States should break off diplomatic relations with Caracas and recognize members of the democratically elected National Assembly as the only legitimate representatives of the Venezuelan people.
"An EU official, who came to office via political connections, writes to a democratically-elected government ... Mr Timmermans is not a legitimate partner for me," he told Bild.
This shrinking is part of a broader incremental process, taking place through legal and democratically authorized means, that has undermined the very idea of self-government in Israel.
Although democratically elected in 2012, Mr. Morsi was ousted a year later, cast into a maximum-security prison where he was denied essential medicines and regular family visits.
The Democratically-controlled Legislature last week passed the fracking ban, which the drilling industry said was a "politically-motivated" measure that would prevent economic growth in the state.
The judiciary was insulated from democratic accountability so that it could serve as an effective enforcer of the directives of the countermajoritarian Constitution against the democratically accountable branches.
Egypt: Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was buried at dawn on Tuesday in a furtive and closely guarded ceremony attended by his wife and two sons.
Since the ouster of Ben Ali, the country has adopted a progressive, civil constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country's first-ever democratically elected president.
The US-educated minister gave the interview in fluent English on the 65th anniversary of a US-backed coup that overthrew democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
In the cuts at Gannett, we see the nearly final evisceration of local news, an institution recognized as democratically vital even by the mainstream media's most frothing detractors.
The president's allies in Congress and the conservative news media warn of an insidious plot inside the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to subvert a democratically elected president.
Mursi, democratically elected after Egypt's 2011 revolution, was overthrown in mid-2013 by then-general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, now the president, following mass protests against his rule.
One of the reason most democratically elected governments in the world fail is that voters want the fiscal equivalent of calorie-free French fries: high spending and low taxes.
Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt's modern history, died aged 67 after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on espionage charges, authorities said.
But Germany, with France in tow, seems hellbent on using its own reading of that budget as a pretext for destroying the Italian economy and its democratically elected government.
Park, South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office, argues that she does not pose a flight risk and will not try to tamper with evidence.
The administration is not democratically elected and so will have to find other ways to tune in to a population, especially younger generations, squeezed in an increasingly unaffordable city.
Though Hythloday's island has a prince that serves a life term, he is chosen by a body of 200 representatives, each of whom is democratically elected in a constituency.
It includes Muhammad Morsi, who became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012, and many of his fellow Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood, who dominated the post-revolution parliament.
Ksenia -- a former Playboy model and socialite whose father was St. Petersburg's first democratically elected mayor and once mentored a young Vladimir -- schools our guy with her impressive credentials.
The democratically elected and opposition-led National Assembly is seeking to unseat Maduro after he effectively replaced them with a "Constituent Assembly" made up of family members and loyalists.
People like Sanam Sindhi, a plus-size South Asian influencer, and Mariah Idrissi, a multiracial hijab-wearing model, were democratically uplifted as icons and later tapped by the industry.
A special prosecutor's investigation started on Wednesday into the influence-peddling scandal that threatens to make Park, 64, the first democratically-elected leader to leave office early in disgrace.
The actions initiated by Friends of Parks and their recent attempts to extract concessions from the city have effectively overridden approvals received from numerous democratically elected bodies of government.
Details: The every-five-years elections select lawmakers for the body, which shares power over the EU budget and legislation, and makes sure other EU institutions are working democratically.
Leaning on the country's collective memory of the dictatorship that followed, organizers rallied protesters against what they believe to be a desperate attempt to unseat a democratically elected president.
In other words, the democratically elected Justice and Development Party (AKP) used the ministry to deploy the ezan as a call for citizens to confront soldiers attempting the coup.
"The President and Secretary agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected Government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed," the statement said.
The Kim regime likely calculates that the decades-old cycle of provocations-negotiations-extorting concessions will work yet again against democratically elected leaders nearing the end of their terms.
But if a change is to happen, it should come from a democratically elected body -- Congress -- and not the courts and federal agencies, which are unaccountable to the people.
It's easy enough to prefer insult comedy to milquetoast liberalism, the latter being too timid to go to blows with the right, but Chapo directs its barbs rather democratically.
But having the stability of the world depend on one nation—and thus, on one democratically elected leader—is itself an inherently risky system, as we're seeing with Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez made the point that the currency will be controlled by a group largely composed of corporations and not democratically elected representatives, a problem for a public asset.
While Riffle believes big philanthropy can be a good thing, he told Vox that high-income taxes on the 1% would allow those resources to be distributed more democratically.
Its economy was on the verge of collapse in 1990, recalls Lothar de Maizière, who was East Germany's last leader in 1990 (and its only democratically elected one ever).
Instead, a common, reasonable supermajority should be required for all emergencies, and then it's up to the collective wisdom of our democratically elected officials to decide when to use.
Since very few of us are endowed with great genius, it is important to understand that the quality of which I am speaking is to some degree democratically shared.
These agencies should be led by career intelligence professionals who will follow the direction and guidance of our democratically elected leaders and not substitute their views and preferred policies.
Her approval rating fell to just 4 percent in a weekly survey released on Friday by Gallup Korea, an all time-low for a democratically elected South Korean president.
When the counterrevolution violently overthrew Egypt's first democratically-elected government, Doha made the cardinal sin of agreeing with the United States publicly by expressing concern about this backward step.
It is likely that the inverse is true as well; the more a country substitutes administrative edicts for democratically promulgated laws, the greater the drag on the economic growth.
Since the U.S.-assisted deposing of the dictator and drug-trafficker Manuel Noriega in 1989, there has been a succession of democratically elected leaders from left, right and center.
But a pro-Russian president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, was democratically elected in 2010 and remained in power until he was ousted in 2014, ultimately taking up exile in Russia.
Over the weekend, the United States emphasized its "absolute support for Turkey's democratically elected, civilian government and democratic institutions" but also urged restraint and a commitment to due process.
Park's approval rating fell to just 4 percent in a weekly survey released on Friday by Gallup Korea, an all time-low for a democratically elected South Korean president.
The harshest questioning came from Democratically-appointed judges, though Republican-appointed Judge Thomas Griffith also at times raised concerns on whether Olson's arguments run counter to Supreme Court precedent.
More importantly, PROMESA cannot be another exercise of colonial ruling, leaving the island and its democratically elected government without the power to determine what is best for Puerto Rico.
So our complaint is not so much about democracy as it is about our misleading understanding of democracy and the bad implications it has for how we proceed democratically.
In 2014, a military junta commanded by Prayuth Chan-ocha, now Thailand's prime minister, toppled a democratically elected government led by forces loyal to a populist politician, Thaksin Shinawatra.
"The president and secretary agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed," the statement read.
Iran is no doubt a nuisance, but we instigated the problem over 60 years ago by helping to overthrow a democratically elected government and putting the shah in power.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was buried at dawn on Tuesday in a furtive and closely guarded ceremony attended by his wife and two sons.
Brad Smith President, Microsoft One thing we have said is that we will provide our technology to democratically elected governments that broadly focus on the protection of human rights.
What is notable about the Texas initiative, which would apply only to unemployment insurance, is that it emerged not from a democratically elected body but from an opaque bureaucracy.
In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency organized a coup against the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and Washington strongly backed the authoritarian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for years.
Mr. Chávez was a democratically elected head of state, who had engaged in a few damning episodes of repression, but was not yet anywhere close to being a dictator.
The big picture: Despite Washington's anointment of Juan Guaidó as the country's democratically elected leader and its tightening asset freeze on government property, regime change remains a high hurdle.
Thailand's military junta, which seized power from a democratically elected government, has frequently used the 2007 Computer Crime Act to prosecute those who criticize it on social media platforms.
To Ersek, business should set examples for leadership in sustainability in all its forms, from fighting man-made climate change to achieving equal pay — but change must come democratically.
"In no way was the statement (by the ambassador) meant to delegitimize criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments," said foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon.
Years before the fateful events of 1979, the CIA rallied Iran's long-repressed religious conservatives, providing them with funding and ideological encouragement to overthrow a democratically-elected Iranian government.
Second, order preparations for the kind of coup d'état the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence service carried out in 1953, which overthrew a democratically-elected government in Iran.
It will be the first time since 22019 that one elected leader will hand over power, peacefully and democratically, to another in the country founded by freed American slaves.
Bizarrely, the US government's position is that the peace talks with the unelected theocrats of the Taliban are more important than the elections contested by Afghanistan's democratically elected leaders.
He also served as the president's intimate adviser and pushed for ways to get their geographically removed, commercially obsessed and democratically accountable country truly engaged in great-power politics.
He laid out eight health care "consumer protections" he wanted in a speech to a joint session of Congress, providing both principles and direction for the Democratically controlled Congress.
Booksellers have been abducted, democratically elected lawmakers barred from taking their seats, candidates politically screened, a political party was banned, and many peaceful pro-democracy protesters have been imprisoned.
The United States has been regularly interfering in other countries' politics since World War II. In fact, it overthrew democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Chile.
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Roberts then crossed the ideological divide and sided with the Democratically-appointed justices to throw in doubt whether the Trump administration may add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"Over and over again, you see this pattern of populist leaders, often democratically elected, who use the power of office to enrich themselves, their families and their cronies," Stephenson said.
Making his final public comments after six years in the independent post, Emmerson later told reporters that Trump was the first democratically-elected head of state to positively advocate torture.
And we called on the UN to revoke the credentials of Venezuela's representative to the United Nations and recognize the duly appointed representative of the Democratically-elected government of Venezuela.
"Rabin" shows a democratically elected leader not merely criticized and disrespected but demonized, depicted as a dictator and a monster, a traitor, an alien and an enemy of his people.
Futile though Mr Scheidel thinks it may prove, attempts to ease inequality democratically through redistributive policies and the empowerment of labour at least show no signs of doing actual harm.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- Turkey's president was once the hope of the Middle East, the democratically elected leader of a secular Muslim country that straddles the border of Europe and Asia.
From what I heard on the news, [Haiti's first democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand] Aristide had gotten pushed out of the country and he wasn't being allowed to come back.
But when the smoke cleared, and the ousters had been accomplished, old dictatorships were replaced with new ones, and the few democratically elected governments were fast dominated by hardline Islamists.
Azalina Othman Said, a minister in the Prime Minister's Department, on Saturday said it was unlawful for any party to try to unseat a democratically-elected government via street protests.
Sisi has launched a fierce crackdown on Islamists since as Egypt's then-military chief he overthrew the country's democratically elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in July 2013.
The junta imposed the strict ban on political activity citing the need for order after months of street protests against the democratically elected government of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Nasheed was the island nation's first democratically elected president, and he has accused other forces of overthrowing him in a 2012 coup, though the government called it a voluntary resignation.
"A (democratically-elected) chief executive who does not get along with the central (government) will be a disaster for Hong Kong," said the source with ties to the Chinese leadership.
Unsurprisingly, the percentage who felt that way was higher (64%) among Republican-leaning voters than among the Democratically-minded (41%), but party affiliation made less difference than you might expect.
After toppling Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsy, in 2013 in what some called a coup, Sisi went from a top military officer to becoming the country's next president.
But Nkurunziza and his supporters maintained that he was eligible to run again because he was technically appointed to his first term in 0003 by parliament rather than democratically elected.
But Nkurunziza and his supporters maintained that he was eligible to run again because he was technically appointed to his first term in 2005 by parliament rather than democratically elected.
For the past year the country has incurred bombings, the rise of extremists, growing authoritarianism and censorship and, this past July 15, an attempted coup on its democratically elected government.
But the FCO said it did not plan to impose same-sex marriage laws on other British Overseas Territories, which are self-governing jurisdictions with their own democratically elected representatives.
That so many should find this appealing speaks volumes about how far Filipino institutions have rotted, under both the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos and successive democratically elected presidents.
Most of all, Congress must pass legislation which paves the way for statehood, as requested, free and democratically, by the voters in the island during the past two status referendums.
For a former CIA employee, not to mention a former Director, to be leading the opposition to a democratically elected leader in this country is unprecedented and a game changer.
Sanders and Secretary Clinton are absolutely right in criticizing the CIA coup against the democratically elected liberal democratic Mossadegh and the imposition of the right-wing dictatorship of the Shah.
Nigeria's new democratically elected leader, the former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo, was known for his sense of humor, and he regularly invited Ali Baba to perform at the Presidential palace.
"We are eager to see our cooperation fully resume with the restoration of a democratically elected civilian government," Melissa Sweeney, a spokeswoman at the U.S. embassy in Bangkok, told Reuters.
"The United States stands with interim President Juan Guaidó, the democratically elected National Assembly, and the people of Venezuela as they peacefully restore constitutional order to their country," Pompeo said.
Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, was allowed to go to Britain in January for medical treatment after President Abdulla Yameen came under international pressure to let him leave.
The Egyptian army and corrupt "deep state" for never giving the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi ("the country's first democratically elected president in six thousand years of history") the means to govern?
Kimbrell called the agreement "poorly written, discriminatory and ineffective legislation" and said it would be a travesty if democratically decided upon labeling laws in fives states are blocked by it.
In the aftermath of the 2009 military coup that ousted its democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras has degenerated into a quagmire of government corruption, rampant criminality and gang violence.
Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader of the Maldives, was ousted in 2012 and was later sentenced to 13 years in jail on terrorism charges after a widely denounced trial.
Our vision is to build a mass, multi-racial, working-class movement that brings people together across our differences and demands that our society and our economy be run democratically.
The MDBs often act as carrots, providing financing and technical assistance in support of a particular objective, such as working with a newly democratically elected government to promote economic growth.
CAIRO — One of Egypt's highest courts overturned a death sentence imposed on Mohamed Morsi, who was the country's first democratically elected president and was ousted in 2013 by the military.
When General el-Sisi overthrew the democratically-elected Morsi government in July of 2013, I was a lonely voice in Congress willing to condemn an unlawful and undemocratic coup d'etat.
Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted then, testified Wednesday in the trial of his successor, Mohamed Morsy, the country's first democratically elected President, himself overthrown in a military coup in 20113.
Not surprisingly, the more unequal the society, the less likely its citizens are think that the country is governed democratically, as recent research by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk shows.
The awkward truth about capitalism is that without proper equality of opportunity, the market cannot distribute wealth fairly or democratically, nor can it provide a safety net for the vulnerable.
Thanks to the party's crushing parliamentary majority, that makes him near-certain to become titular head of the country's first democratically elected government since the army seized power in 1962.
But he underscored that it would take time to foster a democratically elected government in Syria that he — like the Obama administration — said would require Mr. Assad's departure from power.
The problem: If a democratically elected government wants to assert more national influence over its economic relationships, it may have to pull out of arrangements designed to deepen global integration.
Sisi took office in 2014 after leading the military overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
" In an interview earlier, Mr. Burke noted Mr. Trump was a "democratically elected president," and if that president wanted to come christen a new workshop, well — "how should we react?
He left for exile in Ivory Coast and spent many years in the West African country before he was pardoned by Shehu Shagari, Nigeria's first democratically elected president in 1982.
Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Mr. Weiler said, were democratically elected, then systematically undermined democratic checks and balances to consolidate their own power.
"Your transparent rush to judgment, lack of democratically accountable authorization, and violation of basic rights in the current proceedings make clear the illegitimate, partisan purpose" of the inquiry, he said.
"There remain many kinds of speech that are objectionable to some in society, but not to the point where huge, democratically unaccountable corporations should completely prohibit such speech," he added.
Venezuela's attorney general announced earlier Tuesday that Guaido -- leader of the democratically elected National Assembly -- was under investigation despite the fact that members of parliament are typically immune from prosecution.
These thoughts recently came back to me when I read "Submission," the latest novel by Michel Houellebecq, a satire set in a 2022 France ruled by democratically elected Islamic moderates.
But any measure revamping the nation's immigration system would need to pass through Congress -- a heavy lift, particularly with a Democratically-controlled House and Republican majority in the Senate. Sen.
A few years before the Cuban revolution, Washington overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala under the false pretext that it was a beachhead of Soviet communism in the hemisphere.
But after the 2008 election of Mohamed Nasheed as president — the first democratically elected leader after 30 years under autocracy — a law was passed that allowed residents to open guesthouses.
Nasheed, the country's first democratically-elected president who was much celebrated for his progress on climate change, was released from prison last month to visit the UK on medical grounds.
Nkurunziza and his supporters, however, maintained that he was eligible to run again because he was technically appointed to his first term in 2005 by parliament rather than democratically elected.
That fact helps explain why Saudi Arabia is spending billions of dollars propping up the Sisi regime in Egypt that overthrew that country's democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013.
Taiwan is self-governed and has a democratically elected leadership, but China claims the island as a breakaway province and has not ruled out the use of force to ensure unification.
Park remains in office but has been stripped of her powers while the Constitutional Court decides whether to make her the country's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
Ogata felt the entire incident in 2017 was not only shocking, but a violation of her position as an elected official, a democratically chosen representative of, among other people, working moms.
As military chief, Sisi ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Mursi, in 2013 after mass protests and launched a campaign to crush Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the country's oldest Islamist movement.
Egypt's current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, led the overthrow of his country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
Thailand's last democratically-elected government was ousted two years ago and a series of recent attacks in popular tourist spots revived concerns over the presence of extremist elements in the country.
Will it be big tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google, who will use AI to increase their power and wealth; or will the benefits be more evenly and democratically available?
Best known as an exotic tourist destination, the Indian Ocean island nation has been mired in political unrest since its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, was ousted in February 2012.
He was later tried and convicted on several fronts, as Mohamed Morsy -- a top figure in the once banned (and now banned, again) Muslim Brotherhood -- became Egypt's first democratically elected leader.
Park became the first democratically elected leader to be removed from office over the charges that she colluded with her friend, Choi Soon-sil, to take bribes from conglomerates including Samsung.
Any cash earned in transactions with the United States will be held in an inaccessible account until Maduro transfers control of the company over to a democratically elected leader or Guaidó.
By appointing "emergency managers" who pressed to switch the water supply in order to cut corners and save money, Snyder circumvented the electorate and seized legal authority from democratically elected officials.
Zeid told Reuters he had no sympathy with coup plotters who sought to topple the democratically elected Turkish government on July 15, but voiced alarm at the scale of the crackdown.
Democrats have also launched a resolution to stop Trump's border emergency and, on Tuesday, the Democratically controlled House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the measure aimed at stopping it.
But the army, which ruled from 1962 until March of this year, when the democratically elected National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi took office, retains vast business interests.
"You think that your democratically elected public bodies don't do that kind of thing in the UK, in the 21st century, but it's happening, and that's been really shocking," said Lees.
With these words he sided with the "winners" of a military coup that overthrew a democratically elected government in 1964 and set the stage for 513 years of brutal military dictatorship.
"It will simply not be acceptable for the UK government to stand as a roadblock to the democratically expressed will of this parliament," said Sturgeon on the first day of debate.
Obama's foreign policy pillar of engagement with Iran resulted in the toughest period for the Iranian people ever since Eisenhower and the 85033 coup d'état against Iran's sole democratically elected government.
It would undermine the legitimacy of the country's democratically elected leader, and therefore harm the interests of the United States, if his predecessor has described him as "unfit" for the office.
In Pakistan, power is divided between the democratically elected government and the military, whose powerful intelligence wing, experts say, is tied to some militant groups that carry out attacks in India.
To the end he challenged the charges of human rights violations and defended his regime as an economically vital alternative to the communist threat represented by Allende, a democratically elected Marxist.
Finally, the elimination of the right to represent all workers could also harm public employers since a single democratically chosen voice for workers provides stability and a mechanism to resolve conflict.
Look, I am increasingly skeptical about our capacity for constructive, nuanced, deep, democratic dialogue, what I would consider to be democratically nutritional engagement in the media today, in social media today.
While existing social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have faced harsh criticism for their policies on regulating speech, Gelernter believes a democratically run social media wouldn't face the same problems.
The arrests of democratically elected lawmakers widened the scope of political targets in a crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the four months since a failed coup attempt against him.
He has spoken of being "the greatest jobs president that God has ever created," revealing his preference to view himself as a divinely ordained ruler rather than a democratically elected leader.
In January, security forces blocked opposition lawmakers from entering the National Assembly, where they hold the majority of seats, depriving Mr. Guaidó of symbolic control of Venezuela's last democratically elected institution.
The United States should make clear that the Maduro government could issue new debt if it fully recognizes Venezuela's democratically elected National Assembly and allows it to exercise its constitutional duties.
We know how the United States has helped sustain brutal regimes in the Middle East and around the world, how it has overthrown democratically elected governments in Latin America and elsewhere.
The August 2013 sit-in was staged by supporters of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, who had been ousted weeks earlier by the military under the command of Gen.
Vajiralongkorn, who acceded to the throne just this past December, may be trying to wrest some power from the junta, which ousted a democratically elected government in a coup in 2014.
"We are not here today to remove the democratically elected government of the A.N.C., which was voted for by our people in 2014," he said, referring to the last national election.
According to scholars and former officials, it was a network of police, soldiers, and informants, begun during the Cold War, to control domestic dissent and keep democratically elected governments off balance.
Launched in 2007, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership is awarded to democratically elected African presidents and prime ministers who have left office within the last three years.
The delivery of those systems by Mr. Obama was suspended in 2013 after the Egyptian military ousted Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I was a friend of Rómulo Betancourt, the founding father of Venezuelan democracy; of Carlos Andrés Pérez, who governed Venezuela during two terms; and of all the country's democratically elected presidents.
Though Democrats are facing at least two defections within their caucus on the politically fraught vote, it is now almost a foregone conclusion that the Democratically-controlled House will impeach Trump.
But many conservative writers have pointed out that the Senate is also made up of democratically elected officials and that the divided branches of government were intended to fight among themselves.
Park became South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office when the Constitutional Court removed her over a scandal that landed the heads of two conglomerates in jail.
The country of 400,000 people is popular with tourists but has suffered political unrest since its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced to quit amid a police mutiny in 2012.
By operational wing, Truman meant all the "sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue" that Sanders criticized: overthrowing democratically elected governments in Guatemala, Iran, and Chile, as well as assassinating figures like Patrice Lumumba.
A vote is underway on a motion in the South Korean parliament to impeach president Park Geun-hye, who may become the country's first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office.
Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Morsy, 20133, had just been led back to a soundproof glass cage inside the courtroom when he fell unconscious, Egypt's public prosecution office said in a statement.
"I hope nobody is thinking of taking Italians for a ride, of playing for time and inventing a government that would be democratically unacceptable," he said in Termoli on the Adriatic coast.
Mariam is deputy head of the opposition Umma Party led by her father, Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, who was overthrown by President Omar al-Bashir in a coup in 1989.
Park, 64, remains in office but has been stripped of her powers while the Constitutional Court decides whether to make her the country's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
After a coup ousted the democratically-elected president José Manuel Zelaya, Congress issued laws that awarded concessions to hundreds of mining and energy ventures across the country, including projects in Lenca territories.
The 72-year-old leader has ruled the Republic of Congo since 1979; he was democratically voted out of office in 1992 but took power again in 1997 during a civil war.
PDVSA will obtain access to those accounts only after the company comes under the control of Juan Guaidó, who declared himself acting president on January 23rd, or of a democratically elected leader.
The most recent, in 2014, saw the military topple the government of the democratically elected Pheu Thai party, linked to Thaksin Shinawatra, a prime minister ousted in a coup back in 2006.
Despite being the first democratically elected Egyptian president, news outlets have scrubbed that information from stories of his demise in what appears to be a government-mandated description sent out to press.
In remarks published on Wednesday, the deputy head of the transitional council told an Egyptian newspaper that the military wanted to hand power to a democratically elected government as soon as possible.
Platform A Democratic socialist is someone thinks the "economy and society should be run democratically" with the end goal of meeting public needs instead of turning a profit, according to DSA's website .
But the Turkish government has activated emergency rule for the next three months, a tactic repeatedly used by the Turkish military when it overthrew four democratically elected governments between 1960 and 1997.
Trump is so powerful a figure in American culture right now that the only way for both Republicans and our politics in general to move beyond him is to defeat him democratically.
History is of course littered with examples of democracy coming undone, as charismatic, democratically elected strongmen have attacked the media and the opposition, gradually taking control of practically all facets of power.
Scalia brought to the court a concept of jurisprudence based on the belief that judges should keep out of issues better handled by democratically accountable institutions such as Congress and state legislatures.
The country of 400,000 people is popular with tourists but has seen political unrest since its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced to quit amid a police mutiny in 2012.

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