1.   It was university women like these who surged into the streets in front of the presidential palace in Algiers to demand democracy.

2.   In the days when pamphleteers demanded democracy, they were fighting a ruling class whose power and position was obvious to all.

3.   And then these military-business alliances gradually produced prosperity that grew a large middle class, which eventually demanded multi-party democracy.

4.   Across Africa, people are demanding greater democracy and condemning corrupt governments that cheat them out of economic growth.

5.   If we demand full democracy for these nations, we are told, the Islamists will try to take over.

6.   In Mali, Benin, the Republic of the Congo and elsewhere, citizens who organized to demand democracy were overthrowing corrupt dictators.

7.   Some had been protesting and demanding democracy.

8.   They are voting amid an uprising in southern Mexico, where Maya Indian rebels are demanding national democracy.

9.   A nine-week strike by oil workers demanding democracy crippled the industry between July and September.

10.   A year ago, Nigerians were rioting and striking to demand democracy.