1.   In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib.

2.   Though he sometimes raised the possibility of having to step outside normal channels if certain people were to stifle democracy, this was just provocative rhetoric.

3.   Buthelezi and his supporters have accused the president of wanting to create an all-powerful central government that they say will stifle democracy at local and regional levels.

4.   In the process, critics charge, it has flaunted the law and stifled democracy.

5.   Patten struck a nerve when he chided executives for standing by as Beijing tries to stifle democracy in the colony.

6.   The notion that commercial radio stifled democracy rather than nourishing it was not entirely dead.

7.   However, the opposition and human rights organizations have accused the government of trying to stifle democracy.

8.   President Abdurrahman Wahid termed the blasts on Christmas Eve as un-Islamic and said they were aimed at dividing the country along religious lines and stifling democracy.

9.   The book accused Suharto of allowing corruption and nepotism, and of using the military to stifle democracy.

10.   The last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev believes the regime in Russia is stifling democracy and sliding towards totalitarianism, Russian television reported Saturday.