1.   Critics, however, say that the students ignore the fact that South Korea is now a budding democracy and no longer has a repressive ruler.

2.   Other big offenders included Indonesia, Nigeria and Iran, none exactly a budding democracy, which itself may say something.

3.   The mass sentencing for crimes committed during the coup could have far-reaching implications for this budding democracy and its efforts to confront an ugly past.

4.   The vice president rhapsodized about budding Chinese democracy to reporters who were being trailed by the Chinese secret police in dark sedans with smoked glass.

5.   Yet, their downfall came partly because of the emergence of that same budding democracy in South Korea in recent years.

6.   Budding democracies are also being tested.

7.   In an Independence Day address from the former Soviet bloc, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Americans and citizens of budding democracies must guard their freedoms.

8.   In many ways, international leaders were so anxious to present Cambodia as a budding democracy that they looked the other way whenever events conflicted with that view.

9.   Many believe that the international establishment was so desperate to present Cambodia as a budding democracy that those with a stake in events looked the other way.