How to Use nondemocratic in a Sentence

nondemocratic

adjective
  • But that same aid can also enable repression and entrench nondemocratic rule.
    — Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2024
  • And many of them scolded Biden over his choice to exclude the region’s nondemocratic governments.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • What happens in nondemocratic countries One way to see how important a robust civil society can be is to look at what happens in countries that do not have one.
    — Christopher Justin Einolf, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
  • While this particular brand of soft power seems new, the West has a long history of welcoming citizens from nondemocratic regimes.
    — Gerasimos Tsourapas, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • Elements of any number of these nondemocratic governing philosophies have arrived in the United States.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And as nondemocratic states, their ruling elites could not claim to even represent the abiding views of their small numbers of citizens, let alone the critical mass of regional public opinion.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • In nondemocratic regimes, senior officials wall themselves off from reality because their underlings are afraid to deliver bad news.
    — Donald Moynihan, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Of the 11 countries that purchased armed drones from China, such as Egypt and Uzbekistan, nine were nondemocratic in the first year of acquisition.
    — Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The ultimate result is to drive away nondemocratic allies, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.
    — Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
  • These countries, as well as the clearly nondemocratic behemoth China, make up part of the larger and perhaps more relevant G-20.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • The Mossad’s efforts were easier in nondemocratic countries where intelligence agencies have more influence with the rulers, this official said.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The gesture sends a message of comity and national unity to all citizens, particularly in countries emerging from conflict or nondemocratic rule.
    — W. Taylor Reveley, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The themes, motifs and aesthetics on display when the Grand Egyptian Museum opens this year will tell us a lot about how culture will be used by nondemocratic governments around the world.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • The move is sure to stoke anger and anxiety among our European allies and to lift the stature of nondemocratic countries such as China, which will pose as guardians of a new kind of international order.
    — Jennifer Rubin, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • Changes included hard-and-fast rules against serving defense, intelligence, justice, or policing institutions in nondemocratic countries.
    — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Among the consequences will be a shrinking of the civic arena, which could create an opening for nondemocratic actors such as China and Russia to expand their regional influence.
    — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The survey also found that, for the first time, support in Israel for a nondemocratic regime — unequal rights between Israelis and Palestinians — is stronger than that for a two-state solution.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • America and its democratic allies, even at their best, are not strong and united enough to handle the world’s geopolitical challenges without enlisting the help of nondemocratic and even antidemocratic partners.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Unless Americans, our courts, and patriotic legislators are willing to stand up for the law and the Constitution, we are launched on a slippery slope that can only end in a nondemocratic state.
    — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Particularly in authoritarian or nondemocratic nation-states, journalists can be jailed or harassed for doing their job of reporting on abuses of power.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
  • To that end, the party has invested heavily in public diplomacy and influence operations intended to make the global public more accepting of its nondemocratic political system.
    — Daniel Mattingly, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Its government is largely nondemocratic yet its society is relatively egalitarian.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2017
  • Despite the provocative title, the work is a strong defense of liberalism, arguing that some forms of nondemocratic rule, such as a meritocracy based on Confucian values, could better preserve liberal values than democracy can.
    — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • This thinking—embodied in the Washington consensus—held that foreign investment would spur economic modernization and loosen a nondemocratic government’s grip on the national economy.
    — Abel Escribà-Folch, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2021
  • Democratic advances in the continent have been rare in recent years, observers say, and a recent survey by Pew Research Center showed that many people in African nations were willing to consider nondemocratic forms of government.
    — Krista Mahr, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2017
  • One involves direct cooperation among nondemocratic powers, most notably China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
    — Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Most concerning for citizens in nondemocratic countries is that many of these centralized systems rely on an input identity, which can penalize individuals whose gender or ethnicity reduces their autonomy within society.
    — Nikita Sachdev, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • To avoid international isolation, Israel will increasingly rely on authoritarian and nondemocratic states, and on nondemocratic forces within the United States.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024

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