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  • From the outside, it may well appear that nothing has changed: a small but strategic principality which has been ruled for decades by a self-declared aristocracy, few in number, fierce in influence, fundamentalist in outlook, increasingly non-democratic in governance.

    Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun Bradley Burston 2011

  • We should be careful not to accept the definition of a nation's culture sold to us by non-democratic regimes.

    Dokhi Fassihian: Stop Using Iranian Women as a Political Football Dokhi Fassihian 2011

  • Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.

    Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010

  • And while we do not want Mrs. Tymoshenko's or her associates' political show-trials to deflect Ukraine from its European path, it is worth noting that never before has the EU entered into such a far-reaching free-trade agreement with a non-democratic state.

    Letter From a Kiev Jail Yulia Tymoshenko 2011

  • Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.

    Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010

  • Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.

    Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010

  • Both democratic and non-democratic socialists insist that the government they envision as running the economy must in principle be one that truly reflects the will of the masses of the population (or at least their "true" best interests), but of course they differ considerably in their ideas about what sorts of political institutions and practices are required to ensure this will be so.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • Both democratic and non-democratic socialists insist that the government they envision as running the economy must in principle be one that truly reflects the will of the masses of the population (or at least their "true" best interests), but of course they differ considerably in their ideas about what sorts of political institutions and practices are required to ensure this will be so.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • Rochdale College was established as an alternative to what were considered traditional paternalistic and non-democratic governing bodies within university education.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • And while we do not want Mrs. Tymoshenko's or her associates' political show trials to deflect Ukraine from its European path, it is worth noting that never before has the EU entered into such a far-reaching free-trade agreement with a non-democratic state.

    Letter From a Kiev Jail Yulia Tymoshenko 2011

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