Adjective : democratic treatment. From Dictionary.com.
American ones, but also for nurturing "antidemocratic" thinking and attitudes they acquired from British writers. From Wordnik.com. ['An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review] Reference
Himmelberger said Brown supporters have resorted to an "antidemocratic" tactic by stealing signs. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
Sanderson described the pope's comments as "antidemocratic" and accused him of interfering in Britain's political process. From Wordnik.com. [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference
Some former U.S. diplomats argue that the court is antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey's Putin Deserves to Go] Reference
'You can call this antidemocratic principle dictatorship if you wish. From Wordnik.com. [Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 6] Reference
This antidemocratic tendency is not uncharacteristic of the party nationally. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The anti-globalization crowd is antidemocratic in another, more fundamental, sense. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of The Left] Reference
In some ways this is more antidemocratic than if the EU had rigged the referendums. From Wordnik.com. [The Pride of the Irish] Reference
The American primary system, now about 100 years old, is disturbingly antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Poof Goes the Purple Dream] Reference
Myth No. 1 is that lobbying is antidemocratic because it frustrates "the will of the people.". From Wordnik.com. [Lobbying Is Democracy in Action] Reference
It's a phony, antidemocratic argument that Republicans use to try and keep dissenters in line. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsten Powers: Joe Still Doesn't Get It] Reference
But in fact, a close look at Mr. Zelaya's time in office reveals a strongly antidemocratic streak. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Honduran Mutiny] Reference
Get back to me when you've got delegate math that doesn't involve antidemocratic backroomship, dear. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Wins Pennsylvania, Networks Project] Reference
Placating regimes like those in Russia and China today only entrenches hostile, antidemocratic forces. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Should Stand Up to Russia's Regime] Reference
It is time to bury the failed model of dealing with the world's antidemocratic and bloodthirsty regimes. From Wordnik.com. [Why Russia Stokes Mideast Mayhem] Reference
Surveys show that the more Americans know about the bill's antidemocratic provisions, the more they hate it. From Wordnik.com. [Business Beats Card Check—For Now] Reference
I think these polls are crooked, but even if they are only self-fulfilling proffessies, they are antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [New Hillary Ad: It Takes Both Strength And Experience] Reference
Whether or not these suits entirely succeed, they'd keep these profoundly antidemocratic actions in the public eye. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: Think Globally, Protect the Vote Locally] Reference
We do so to help teach new generations the dangers of antidemocratic despots, racist ideologies, and ethnic hatreds. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks At Holocaust Museum Opening Reception] Reference
Second and more fundamentally, the claim about taking politics out of science is in the deepest sense antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research] Reference
And that helps explain the recent ratcheting up of antidemocratic tactics and disregard for how it looks outside Russia. From Wordnik.com. [An Unapologetic Putin] Reference
The worst aspect of this antidemocratic ruling-to-come is that it will be irreversible short of a Constitutional amendment. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Branches of We.Gov] Reference
Make no mistake: thanks to the global economic crisis and antidemocratic trends, things may get worse before they get better. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save Democracy] Reference
It's very antidemocratic for the Democratic party to do this and they're alienating the American people's sense of fair play. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2004] Reference
The home-schooled, privately educated brainwashed horde are an antidemocratic, fundamentally anti-American political movement. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within] Reference
Georgia, the former Soviet republic, may be on the edge of renewed civil war - and the liberals are technically antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Limits Of Democracy] Reference
You could say it's antidemocratic, in a sense, these kinds of arrangements, because the government is no longer held accountable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2008] Reference
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel says 14 bills, now working their way through the Israeli parliament, are antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician] Reference
It would behypocritical - and perhaps even antidemocratic - of me to act differently in the case of protests I'm not sympatheticto. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Those who favor same-sex marriage but oppose antidemocratic tactics, as Thayer suggests he does, have nothing to complain about here. From Wordnik.com. [As American as Apple Pie] Reference
On communism in South Africa: Communism as we understood it and as it was practiced prior to its collapse in Eastern Europe was antidemocratic. From Wordnik.com. ['Whites Are South Africans, Too'] Reference
The big fear is a repetition of the people-power uprisings that toppled antidemocratic regimes a few years ago in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine. From Wordnik.com. [Paranoid in Tehran] Reference
Mark HosenballNICARAGUA: Going SouthAs the world focuses on planting seeds of democracy in the Middle East, antidemocratic roots are quietly growing in Latin America. From Wordnik.com. [TRADE: China's Not-So-Big Bang] Reference
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