• It seems unfair, it seems undemocratic, but as University of Texas professor Bruce Buchanan explains, it's true.

    NPR: In Texas, Not All Voters Are Equal

  • "The Lib Dems' centralised, undemocratic vision of Europe belongs to the past, " said shadow foreign secretary William Hague.

    BBC: Stand tall in Europe, Clegg urges

  • In Chile itself, right-wing parties have blocked all efforts to purge the constitution of its remaining undemocratic elements.

    ECONOMIST: Latin American politics

  • Borough councillors condemned the county' council's "undemocratic" move and recommended that the government should look at the case.

    BBC: King's Lynn incinerator plan to be examined

  • The church, an undemocratic institution with uncompromising views, has not helped their peaceful resolution, especially in the United States.

    ECONOMIST: After Pope John Paul II

  • Other Latin American presidents have imitated Chavez populist undemocratic style, intimidating opponents, restricting the media and subverting the judiciary.

    CNN: Chavez empowered the poor, divided a nation

  • Mr Morsi's supporters meanwhile accuse the opposition protesters of trying to oust a democratically elected president by undemocratic means.

    BBC: Egypt Army soldiers in Suez on

  • And Mr Obama's administration will probably hesitate to ram through dramatic emissions cuts by decree, for fear of appearing undemocratic.

    ECONOMIST: Climate-change policy

  • "The British government did not even consult the Welsh government or the Welsh people and it was undemocratic, " she added.

    BBC: MEP Jill Evans fined for TV licence protest over S4C

  • While Mr Souter hailed the result as a "clear message to the executive", ministers attacked the poll as "flawed and undemocratic".

    BBC: Ballot platform

  • He rebutted Mr Pickles comment that GMWDA was undemocratic saying that this authority was made of elected councillors from 10 local authorities.

    BBC: Eric Pickles: Greater Manchester's 'shoddy' waste deal

  • Despite all the talk of Indonesia's model democracy, the big parties managed to slip some patently undemocratic rules into the fine print.

    ECONOMIST: Suck it and see

  • Many of these new developments have been opposed by local groups, which accuse the Corporation of being still secretive, undemocratic and unaccountable.

    ECONOMIST: Local government

  • The Clinton administration had a most unDemocratic liking for a strong dollar.

    ECONOMIST: A currency fix?

  • For those, in particular, who see the European Commission as an undemocratic, bureaucratic, even corrupt institution, this will do more than raise eyebrows.

    BBC: Nobel Peace Prize: Surprise in Brussels at award for EU

  • America had earlier proposed a system of regional caucuses to choose a new government, but this was roundly criticised as undemocratic and complicated.

    ECONOMIST: Political snags, security woes | The

  • No-one wants to go back to trade unions that are undemocratic or one-sided nuclear disarmament or having great private sector businesses in the public sector.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • And the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Don McKinnon, has warned that the referendum should not be used to entrench any undemocratic form of government in Pakistan.

    BBC: Q&A: Pakistan referendum

  • Declan Roche, a criminologist at the London School of Economics, points out that, with the exception of jury service, the judicial system is almost entirely undemocratic.

    ECONOMIST: Restorative justice

  • Moreover, General Musharraf has clung on to his job by the same undemocratic measures as his predecessors: by manipulating the institutions he had vowed to clean up.

    ECONOMIST: Too much for one man to do

  • Ms Leadsom was unmoved by the point that we do not call the USA undemocratic when votes there fall below 50% and sallied forth with the heart of her argument.

    BBC: Warnings over a country called Europe

  • Nor will elections alone: indeed, Pakistan would perhaps be more Islamist but for the pervasive influence of its most undemocratic force, the feudal landlords, who keep rural mullahs in check.

    ECONOMIST: Islamist militancy is alive and well

  • Back to Egypt, has there been a certain amount of soul-searching and reevaluation in the administration about how to deal with undemocratic governments that are nonetheless helpful to the United States?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • However, the two nationalist parties, Sinn Fein and the SDLP, as well as Alliance, claimed the unionist move was undemocratic and not what the people of the city had voted for.

    BBC: Belfast City Council votes for rule change

  • Musharraf's critics say those plans are unconstitutional and undemocratic.

    NPR: Former Pakistan Leader Sharif Desires Return

  • Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center observed the elections, which issued preliminary findings about the runoff -- said Tuesday that he was "deeply troubled by the undemocratic turn" in Egypt's transition.

    CNN: Egypt election results delayed

  • Witness Slovakia and Croatia, both edging west again after the ousting last year of Vladimir Meciar and the death of Franjo Tudjman, leaders whose undemocratic habits kept their people out of the western sphere.

    ECONOMIST: Where is Central Europe? | The

  • Rolando Panchana, an assembly member for Alianza Pais and one of the bill's main backers, says the current law, passed in 1975 under the military rule of General Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, is restrictive and undemocratic.

    BBC: Moves to regulate media cause stir in Ecuador

  • The plaintiffs argued that the ESM, even though it cleared both houses of parliament with the two-thirds majorities necessary to amend the constitution, cannot stand because it is fundamentally undemocratic and therefore violates the eternity clause.

    ECONOMIST: Germany and the euro

  • These feudal rulers, like the princely states of India, were given identity, power, recognition and land by Britain to run the subcontinent and were bestowed with the same privileges and undemocratic methods that, as you mention, they still retain.

    ECONOMIST: Mulling Musharraf

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