Even one of this democracy's most impressive trappings, a free and vibrant press, has limits.
On this resplendent evening, all the trappings to sate a sultan's appetite were present, though it's a good bet that Suleiman the Magnificent never saw such an ornate fountain of molten chocolate.
More to the point, President Bush is appointing experienced individuals to key Defense and State Department posts who have for three years urged the United States to recognize a provisional government of Free Iraq and strip Saddam's regime of the trappings of international legitimacy.
Even in peacetime, Gadhafi's Libya had the Orwellian trappings of a police state governed by a culture of fear.
The ceremony Friday at which Tesla delivered the first Model S cars had all the trappings of a typical auto company pep rally, save for an actual marching band.
Even Vladimir Putin's Russia seeks to adopt the trappings if not the substance of criminal justice.
Fans of regular TV will find comfort in Aereo's Guide, which includes all the trappings of a TV program guide with channels listed on the left and days and times running across the top of the screen.
For starters, the art is sometimes housed in what used to be the absurdly rich collector's mansion, which still retains many of the trappings of his or her wealth, occasionally peculiar taste and social-climbing prowess.
Forty years later, the trappings at the top of Dean Foods, as at most U.S. big companies, are more lavish.
While such regal trappings meant nothing to the ordinary person, this cannot be said of Herod's projects in Caesarea and Jerusalem.
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What we're likely to see, therefore, is the transformation of Russia's political system into a highly authoritarian one-man dictatorship, albeit with sundry democratic trappings retained for decorative purposes.
Batasuna's leaders were not immediately arrested under the injunction but were unable to use the party banner or trappings.
Nearly three years of a government of national unity has blunted the opposition's edge - the MDC has seamlessly become part of the ruling class, in their official vehicles and trappings of power.
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