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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.

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Examples

  • She argues that the brand "democratised" fashion at low prices, women in hijab often shop there, and inking out H&M models is the perfect act of confrontation: "It's visually very striking because the brand's images are ideologically very present in the urban landscape."

    Cornered – Princess Hijab, Paris's elusive graffiti artist Angelique Chrisafis 2010

  • How have navigation systems and web mapping "democratised" geography?

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • How have navigation systems and web mapping "democratised" geography?

    Satnav, democracy and dumbing down 2008

  • He said he wanted to see the IMF "democratised" to give an "equal voice" to African nations because currently the IMF is "dominated by western countries, principally the United States".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Dr Davies said the Customs Union agreement should be "democratised" and linked to industrial policies.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The university has refused to heed student demands that his appointment be set aside and the appointment process be "democratised".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • There could be no free and fair election in South Africa until the SABC had been "democratised", Mr Dave Dalling, ANC-aligned

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Addressing the Association of German-speaking Business Persons in Cape Town, he said by "democratised" he meant the urgent replacement of the entire existing Board of Governors by a new

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • For instance if the Army is supposed to be "democratised" why have no reports on the whereabouts of the disapered been funished?

    United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal 2009

  • The BNDES, which unfortunately is helping to drain the resources of Brazil and South America, must be "democratised," said Cândido Grzybowski, head of the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE).

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: 2009

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