democracies

As one of his followers pointedly remarked today, in European democracies party leaders and prime ministers tend to be elected.

他的一位追随者尖锐地指出，欧洲民主国家的政党领导人和国家总理应当是由选举产生的。

Almost until the moment Mr Ben Ali was forced to flee Tunis, the rich democracies took the side of "stability" against the street.

几乎直到本•阿里被迫逃离突尼斯的那一刻，富裕的民主国家还一直站在与普通民众对立的“稳定”一方。

America, along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan, is one of just a handful of democracies that retain capital punishment.

美国与日本、印度、南朝鲜以及台湾一样，是众多保留死刑制度的民主国家和地区之一。

Somehow half of the tin and a third of the rubber that the democracies used came out of this mess.

不管怎么样，民主国家用的半数的锡和三分之一的橡胶都来自这一片混乱的土地。

If something similar were to happen to its fellow democracies in Europe and America, the consequences would be far larger.

如果欧洲各民主国家和美国发生类似的情况，影响将大得多。

If democracies decide to ban certain types of speech or to protect their citizens' data, they must be able to enforce their rules.

如果民主政府决定禁止某些类型的言论，或是保护其公民的数据，那么他们必须有能力执行这些规则。

Dictatorships and democracies alike seem to be dismissive of American leadership.

无论是独裁国家还是民主国家现在似乎都对美国的领导权不屑一顾。

Yet the Middle East is an outlier: in spite of a fall in their number, it is now the only region in which autocracies outnumber democracies.

然而中东是个例外：尽管独裁政体数量有所下降，但它目前仍是世界上唯一独裁政体数量超过民主政体数量的地区。

Only a decade ago, Thailand was one of Asia's strongest democracies.

仅仅十年前，泰国还是亚洲最强盛的民主国家之一。

What you may fail to understand is the speed with which democracies can shift their attitude from the open hand to the clenched fist.

但你也许未能理解的是，民主国家的态度能快速地从张开的手转变为攥紧的拳头。

The question of whether modern democracies can successfully resist populist tyranny is raised and then abandoned within two paragraphs.

关于现代民主制能否有效抗衡民粹主义暴政的问题被提及，而后在两段的篇幅里又被放弃了。

Democracies, by contrast, seem to prefer more youthful leaders these days, though India and Italy are exceptions to this trend.

与之相比，如今的民主政治似乎更偏爱年轻领袖，但是印度和意大利是这个趋势的例外。

In the years of the American and French revolutions the fundamental principle guiding our democracies was established .

在美国和法国革命的岁月里，指引我们民主的根本原则已经确立。

His audience was chosen by members of a private organization friendly to the White House: the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies .

取之的是从保卫民主基金这个与白宫友好的私密组织的成员挑出来的听众。

Education systems in democracies do not preclude study of other political doctrines or systems of government.

民主国家的教育制度并不排斥对其他政治学说或政治体制的研究。

If the worst is avoided, the healthy popular hostility to a strong state that normally pervades democracies should reassert itself.

如果最坏的情况不会出现，对强力政府的敌意将重新得到发展。

The second was that new democracies would inevitably be more friendly and helpful toward the United States.

第二点，新的民主将不可避免实现与美国的友好关系。

Perhaps more than most democracies, America is suffering a crisis of governance at a time of acute economic need.

在严峻的经济需求时期，美国正在经历一场治理危机，其严重程度或许甚于大多数民主制国家。

Mr Assange enjoys the protection of several liberal democracies, but is not really accountable to any of them.

阿桑奇享有几个国家自由与民主的保护，却并未对其中任何一个负责。

And even in established democracies like the United States, we've seen the power of these tools to change history.

甚至在美国等已建立民主制度的国家，我们也看到这些工具具有改变历史的力量。