1.   But direct democracy could not survive the size and complexity of the pluralistic, sprawling nation-states that developed in modern times.

2.   Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.

3.   But democracy survived.

4.   Democracy will probably survive the crisis, but relations between king and government could change.

5.   Democracy cannot survive in a highly uncertain world in which a smuggled nuclear bomb might be detonated in Paris or Manhattan and in which such calamities might reoccur.

6.   Despite the negative trends of recent weeks, Lee said he remains optimistic that democracy can survive and grow in Hong Kong, even under Chinese rule.

7.   South African democracy can survive even if some people are wrongly acquitted.

8.   The democracy survived, the scandal all but forgotten.

9.   They argue that the election shows Russian democracy is surviving, despite broad discontent with the current government.

10.   American democracy has survived challenges before.