11.   Democracy has yet to translate into prosperity.

12.   Democracy often has a tough time defending itself because it has to operate step by step, inch by inch, under the law.

13.   Democracies also generally have less tolerance for elite social groups or monopolistic organizations that maintain a stranglehold over innovation and markets.

14.   Democracy has to be the solution.

15.   In Haiti, the dictators are gone, democracy has a new day, and the flow of desperate refugees to our shores has ended.

16.   In sum, Russian democracy still has a long way to go.

17.   Maybe the Western democracies have it all backward when it comes to bracing for a national defense crisis.

18.   Ng, a soft-spoken former loan officer at the Bank of China who lost his job because of his politics, said that democracy had little future in Macau.

19.   Only in this way does democracy have a hope of taking root.

20.   Participatory democracy should have a higher threshold than being able to chew gum and walk at the same time.