The United States has enthusiastically supported Congolese democratization efforts, contributing aid to the country's electoral process.

For the first time, the Government agreed that the Kwangju incident could be considered "a part of the democratization efforts of students and citizens."

"If they show sufficient signs on the democratization effort," the official said of the allies, "we won't have to go whole hog on Helms-Burton."

He said the Central America peace process faces "inevitable complications," and suggested that the Nicaragua's democratization efforts might turn out to be "mere show."

Obviously our democratization efforts aren't getting very far.

Although threatened by Milošević throughout the last years of his rule, Montenegro's democratization efforts have continued.

Concentrating democratization efforts on Ms. Plavsic has proved fruitless.

"What we have been doing here in the mission, on my initiative, is drawing increased attention to proactive democratization efforts."

Next, the administration deeply cut financing for democratization efforts, many of them undertaken by nongovernmental groups.

You still have not seen any serious democratization effort being directed at Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Kuwait.