1.   It is not aware of its behavior and thinks it is advancing democracy.

2.   James Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a historian of Russian culture, has come up with a simple but effective way of advancing democracy in Russia.

3.   Only in Africa, argues Carothers, has advancing democracy been a key element of American policy.

4.   So far much of the action seems more clearly aimed at rebuilding a strong central government than at advancing democracy and reform.

5.   The free flow of information across national borders may be a more potent force for advancing democracy than dispatch of U.S. aircraft carriers to a distant sea.

6.   The United States, in the name of advancing democracy, closed ranks with anti-communist tyrants in Asia and Latin America.