How, in the name of Localism, can a distant district council be allowed to "ride roughshod" over the democratically expressed opinion of a parish council?

Under the Good Friday Agreement the people of Northern Ireland's "democratically expressed" consent must be secured in a referendum.

Western leaders are calling for respect for the democratically expressed will of the Ukrainian people.

But tensions have also risen because Beijing has shown little flexibility or creativity in accommodating Taiwan's democratically expressed wariness of the mainland.

"Her Majesty's Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes."

Mrs. Kopp, the first woman member of the governing Federal Council, has become a strong advocate of the restrictions, which, she says, are the democratically expressed will of the electorate.

Certainly he was convinced from the beginning that a solution could only come through Algerian self-determination and the democratically expressed will of the French people.

Such a call ignores the democratically expressed wishes of the people and does this House no credit.

This political agreement can be concluded only on the basis of the results of the first round of voting, which reflected the opinion of the Zimbabwean people, freely and democratically expressed.

However, the Council has decided to ignore the democratically expressed will of the Irish people, and they have made a decision to force the Treaty of Lisbon through.