"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hamas characterized this as an attempted Fatah coup by Abbas, using undemocratic means to overthrow the results of a democratically elected government.
- He said, "defending democracy by undemocratic means destroys democracy."
- What they share, says Rieff, is a desire to pursue utopian ends by undemocratic means.
- He was particularly critical of Mr. Gorbachev's political proposals, saying he is trying to carry out "democratic reforms through undemocratic means."
- "Sometimes in order to safeguard democracy, we have to use undemocratic means such as administrative detention," President Moshe Katsav said this week.
- Increasingly, the affair has come to look like a crude political ploy: a democratic government ousted by undemocratic means, and now threatened with judicial disqualification of candidates.
- "You can't introduce democracy by undemocratic means."
- "They should all go because they came to power in this country by basically undemocratic means," said Susanne Milanovic, a 23-year-old Belgrade University student.
- Of course, we also condemn the coup d'état and any attempt to seize power by undemocratic means.
- "Defending democracy by undemocratic means destroys democracy."
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