Pro-democracy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pro-democracy is an adjective meaning In favor of democracy.
Meaning
In favor of democracy.
Example Sentences
Families and supporters of the Redshirt protesters in Thailand handed in a letter to the London embassy yesterday calling for an end to the killings and suppression of pro-democracy campaigners.
Li also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland.
While there were no official commemorative events for the icon of political reform, whose death sparked the 1989 pro-democracy movement and subsequent military crackdown, the anniversary was marked in a memorial in Gongqingcheng, Jiangxi province.
The repression at Tiananmen Square dealt a serious but not fatal blow to the pro-democracy movement. It has been forced to lie dormant until a future moment of opportunity. As the revolutions in Eastern Europe proved, however, that moment will eventually come.
Word Forms
- prodemocracy
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prodemocratic, prodemocracy, counterdemocratic, antidemocracy, progovernment, anti-democratic.
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