21.  Second, an authoritarian system, rather than a democratic one, provides the most stable foundation for economic growth.

22.  That means we hold authoritarian governments to a higher moral standard than democratic ones.

23.  The other afternoon, Lowe knocked on nine Republican doors and a single Democratic one along Glengarriff Road.

24.  The United States must link its support for Musharraf to the transformation of his military regime into a fully democratic one.

25.  Their views on a range of controversial issues from school prayer to gun control read more like they come out of the Republican playbook than the Democratic one.

26.  Then he leaves the faintest impression that he prefers undemocratic societies that produce masterpieces to democratic ones that turn out fodder for book clubs.

27.  Two had attended the Republican National Convention, and all four had followed the Democratic one on television and in the press.

28.  Unless he can seem a generous winner and produce palatable results with a narrowly Republican Congress, he might have to deal with a Democratic one.

29.  What is happening in Yugoslavia and what happened in Bosnia and Croatia is an attempt to impose the Western understanding of values, including democratic ones.

30.  By eight Republican votes to seven Democratic ones, the commission accepted the Republican vote in each of the disputed states.