How to Use nondemocratic in a Sentence

nondemocratic

adjective
  • And many of them scolded Biden over his choice to exclude the region’s nondemocratic governments.
    William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The themes, motifs and aesthetics on display when the Grand Egyptian Museum opens this year will tell us a lot about how culture will be used by nondemocratic governments around the world.
    Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • The survey also found that, for the first time, support in Israel for a nondemocratic regime — unequal rights between Israelis and Palestinians — is stronger than that for a two-state solution.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • These countries, as well as the clearly nondemocratic behemoth China, make up part of the larger and perhaps more relevant G-20.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • The move is sure to stoke anger and anxiety among our European allies and to lift the stature of nondemocratic countries such as China, which will pose as guardians of a new kind of international order.
    Jennifer Rubin, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • And as nondemocratic states, their ruling elites could not claim to even represent the abiding views of their small numbers of citizens, let alone the critical mass of regional public opinion.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • While this particular brand of soft power seems new, the West has a long history of welcoming citizens from nondemocratic regimes.
    Gerasimos Tsourapas, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • The Mossad’s efforts were easier in nondemocratic countries where intelligence agencies have more influence with the rulers, this official said.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Democratic advances in the continent have been rare in recent years, observers say, and a recent survey by Pew Research Center showed that many people in African nations were willing to consider nondemocratic forms of government.
    Krista Mahr, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2017
  • America and its democratic allies, even at their best, are not strong and united enough to handle the world’s geopolitical challenges without enlisting the help of nondemocratic and even antidemocratic partners.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The gesture sends a message of comity and national unity to all citizens, particularly in countries emerging from conflict or nondemocratic rule.
    W. Taylor Reveley, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Changes included hard-and-fast rules against serving defense, intelligence, justice, or policing institutions in nondemocratic countries.
    Robert Zafft, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Flattery is common in democratic and nondemocratic politics.
    Xavier Marquez, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Its government is largely nondemocratic yet its society is relatively egalitarian.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2017

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