Kosovo would thus gain some essential trappings of statehood.

Yet, public infatuation with the external trappings of democracy is usually the norm.

Nowadays, they dress up their dictatorships in the trappings of the rule of law.

Moscow nowadays has all the trappings of high end capitalism Prada, Fouchon, Rolls Royce.

The pillars of apartheid and other trappings of the iniquitous system are all being removed.

And there was wine and cheese and a red checked tablecloth all the romantic trappings.

But Agnes cared more about the trappings of power than she did principle at the end.

So here, if you look at this poster, it has all the trappings of Western culture.

We've already been made to look a fool. Let's not add the trappings of a clown.

Rather than establish a dictatorship, they helped Putin use the trappings of liberal democracy to consolidate power.

Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas might be attracted by the money if it is accompanied by the trappings and symbols of statehood.

Not because I believe all politicians are corrupt but because no person is immune to being seduced by the trappings of power.

As scientific progress broadens the range of options regarding health, the trappings of social, political, and moral choice will increasingly infiltrate medical diagnoses.

Clearly, the false trappings of a state provided as part of the Oslo peace process have resulted in little tangible change for Palestinians.

MADRID Once upon a time, despots simply acted like despots. Nowadays, they dress up their dictatorships in the trappings of the rule of law.

As people around the world encourage the prospect of democracy coming to Egypt and Tunisia, let us not be beguiled by its formal trappings.

He was intelligent, impressed by technological progress, perhaps even gifted, but untutored and impulsive he reveled in the trappings of power and delighted in uniforms.

let go of some loose trappings of my old life, and through a bit of a leap of logic, decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

Upwardly mobile MPs from the ruling Labour Party claimed the trappings of their newly acquired middle class status second homes, mock tudor beams, and plasma screen televisions.

Critics of economic sciences sometimes refer to the development of a pseudoscience of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense mathematics, but only for show.

By banishing all trappings of justice, this mindset is oblivious to the suffering of the peace loving civilians who comprise the vast majority of those living in Pakistan s tribal areas.

But such trappings will not make the transition process any easier for a young man of less than 30 in a society where veteran military chiefs retain so much power.

If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.

I made a few changes, let go of some loose trappings of my old life, and through a bit of a leap of logic, decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

Most offenses were trivial, and only a few were illegal. Upwardly mobile MPs from the ruling Labour Party claimed the trappings of their newly acquired middle class status second homes, mock tudor beams, and plasma screen televisions.

Without a critical press, Latin America s undeniable advances toward real democracy development of an informed, empowered citizenry and governments respectful of the legitimate boundaries of power will be endangered, even as formal electoral trappings become more routine.

When I was a little girl I grew up in a wealthy community it was an upper middle class white community, and it had all the trappings and the looks of a perfectly nice, wonderful, great life.

When I was a little girl and I grew up in a wealthy community it was an upper middle class white community, and it had all the trappings and the looks of a perfectly nice, wonderful, great life.

Democratic transitions throughout the hemisphere had made guerrilla warfare unjustifiable as Che foretold in his La Guerra de Guerrillas in 1962, wherever the trappings (or, one might add, the realities) of democratic rule prevailed, taking up arms was pointless.

Who can be proud that Romania s last Communist boss, Nicolai Ceaucescu, and his wife were shot without even the semblance of a fair trial? The formal trappings of a real court always seem better than instant justice, even if the end result is also death.

Pakistan has been run by a military dictator for the last 8 years, but the dictator kept some of the trappings of democracy around, like a free press, an opposition, of not just politicians but private armies belonging to anyone who cared, like the Taliban, roaming around the country, and so on.

Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.