Preposition: in

• order: For its existence, the government had to appear democratic in order to enjoy external sympathy and support, on which it survives.

• spirit: Although rather autocratic by nature, Jones was a convinced egalitarian in his principles so that the Society soon became thoroughly democratic in spirit.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: They both facilitate healthy debate, making society more democratic.

• keep: Now we face a new struggle to keep the party democratic.

Modifies a noun

• accountability: The left remedy was, however, more democratic accountability.

• deficit: There will be nothing about the democratic deficit, or about the many problems being created by the euro.

• centralism: Ninth: A permanent regime of democratic centralism in the unified party.

• legitimacy: This school of thought puts the idea of identity into the focus of the search for democratic legitimacy.

• republic: I desire anarchy, and I am happy to be the leader of such movement, while a peoples democratic republic is constructed.

• society: The modern, open, democratic society with a market economy was born.

Modifying Another Word

• genuinely: Can a society based on these two principles also be genuinely democratic?

• supposedly: Was its location in the New World or its supposedly democratic political tradition of any consequence?

• truly: No truly democratic government in Iraq would long be able to defer to such U.S. interests.

• profoundly: The program of the communists in Germany is informed by this profoundly democratic approach.

• formally: How long will the Iranian regime formally democratic but in practice, largely theocratic endure?

Used with adjective complement

• become: Contrary to those who tell us that Respect will become more democratic once it has had some success, the reverse is true.

• seem: On paper, linking debt relief to completion of national Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers ( PRSPs ) seemed democratic.

• make: How can the House of Lord be made more democratic?

• appear: It all appears so shockingly democratic, but still arty enough to merit coverage.