The proposal, Sheets said, represents part of his program for election reforms necessary to make democracy in New Jersey more than a `` lip service word ''.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

Lucca managed, at first as a democracy, and after 1628 as an oligarchy, to maintain its independence alongside of Venice and Genoa, and painted the word Libertas on its banner until the French Revolution in 1789.

He sees the proponents of liberal democracy ( or " Western " democracy ) as holding a negative attitude to the word and believing that force is not an appropriate way to achieve a goal no matter the value of that goal.

Foreign internet search engines including Microsoft Bing !, Yahoo !, Google Search China have come under criticism for aiding in these practices, including banning the word " democracy " from its chat rooms in China.

In his statements, " imperialism, liberalism, democracy " were " negative words ", while " revolution ... became a sacred word, sometimes more important than Islam.

In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

* The Greek word κράτος krátos, ' power ', which is the second root in words like aristocrat and democracy.

The word demagogue, meaning a leader of the common people, first arose in ancient Greece, originally with no negative connotation, but eventually came to mean a troublesome kind of leader who occasionally arose in Athenian democracy.

Ryerson referred to the cause of 1837 as the cause of democracy ; his decision to place the word in the title of his book, was done with the hope of suggesting that this referred “ to both bourgeois liberalism that will supplant the remnants of feudal oligarchy and the ultimate vision of equality in the classless society brought about by the proletarian revolution .” Doyle contended it was Ryerson ’ s aim to redefine “ democracy ,” and the way in which we refer to the events of 1837 and the idea of revolution in general.

This liberalism is what is properly called in a global context social liberalism, or what contemporary North American use of the word signifies as liberalism: liberal democracy, social justice, social progressivism, Third Way, multiculturalism, diplomacy in foreign policy, and a regulated free market economy ( during the Trudeau era the Liberals arguably supported a mixed economy ).

Some think liberty is almost synonymous with democracy, at least in one sense of that word, while others see conflicts or even opposition between the two concepts, with democracy being nothing more than the tyranny of the majority.

In the volumes of the newspaper he published in Paris, " there is no word in the paper's theoretical articles favoring political democracy or parliamentarianism ," according to his biographer.

" In a word ," she wrote, " democracy is indispensable not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat but because it renders this conquest of power both necessary and possible.

Although the word democracy is in the name of the party system, it is by far not democratic.

At the other extreme, a word may claim to refer to a natural kind in a dogmatic and infallible manner, leaving those who understand the word as such unable to recognize or understand evidence that defies their linguistic categories ; for example, members of a culture that defines democracy as inherently good may be unable or unwilling to understand the fact that Athens voted to commit genocide on several occasions.

This is how the word " democracy " was formed and its form of government.

" The resolutive negotiation will not involve specific enforcements, will respect the plurality of the Basque society, will place every project in equal terms, will deepen democracy in the sense of placing in the citizens of the Basque Country the last word on the shaping their future and their decision will be respected by the implicated Estates.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

Plato describes the priestesses of Delphi and Dodona as frenzied women, obsessed by " mania " ( μανία: frenzy ), a Greek word connected with " mantis " ( μάντις: prophet ).

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The word was coined from the Greek root ἀνδρ-' man ' and the suffix-oid ' having the form or likeness of '.

During this period, the word " democracy " ( Greek: δημοκρατία – " rule by the people ") was first used by the Athenians to define their new system of government.

* Pictographic-phonetic compound ideograms ( 形声字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts with the intended phonetic properties to create a new character that phonetically mimicks the intended sound of the new word, e. g. the character for " bark ", which combines the pictogram " mouth " as the radical with the pictogram for " dog ";

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

For example, rather than asserting that sentences are constructed by a rule that combines a noun phrase ( NP ) and a verb phrase ( VP ) ( e. g. the phrase structure rule S → NP VP ), in categorial grammar, such principles are embedded in the category of the head word itself.

In this compound word the preposition combines the two meanings of time and change, which may be denoted by ' after ' and ' different '; so that the whole compound means: ' to think differently after '.

Hence in its current form the name combines three forms of the word hill.

The word " Cinerama " combines cinema with panorama, the origin of all the "- orama " neologisms ( the word " panorama " comes from the Greek words " pan ", meaning all, and " orama ", which translates into that which is seen, a sight, or a spectacle ).

For example, the word for computer ( an introduced object ) is tölva which combines the ancient terms for number and seer.

It combines the Latin word nihil, " nothing " with German Artikel, " article ".

For example, to create the sentence, The dogs ate the meat, the word dogs is inserted after a noun root with the meaning combines with a feature.

Plutography combines the prefix pluto-( from the Greek word ploutos, " wealth ") with the suffix-graphy ( from the Greek verb graphein, " to write ").

* In Hebrew, the word כדורגל (' kaduregel ) is used, which combines the words " כדור " ( kadur: ball ) and " רגל " ( regel: foot, leg ).

The name is a portmanteau word that combines gothic and rockabilly.

In this way the meaning of the word, " ratiocinator " is clarified and can be understood as a mechanical instrument that combines and compares ratios.

The name combines the English word " fox " with the suffix " suke " ( すけ ; 助, 輔, 介 ) found in some Japanese male names.

The Japanese word sakaki is written 榊 with a kanji character that combines ki 木 " tree ; wood " and kami 神 " spirit ; god ", depicting " sacred tree ; divine tree ".

The term combines the Greek prefix neo, meaning new, and the contraction of the word traditionnelle, as in traditional music.

" The idea of pulling things inherent in the verb lug combines with the suffix-age to create the word we know today.

In the Chinese language, the first character of the word " ginkgo tree " is bai ( 白 ), while the first character of the word " emperor " is huang ( 皇 ), which combines the character bai with the character wang ( 王-meaning " prince ", 親王 ).

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