These grapes are ripe.

These plums are ripe.

Why don't you grow up?

These bananas are not ripe.

The apples are not quite ripe.

The apples will be ripe soon.

You are much more mature than I!

When Democracies Collide

Mature turtles often return to the exact beach from which they hatched.

Finally, they will be robust democracies.

The Great Democracies New Harmony

The middle aged, preparing for retirement, are likely to be the economy s savers.

And apparently it's a very picky eater and it, you know, hones in on only the ripest coffee cherries.

I feel that Eastern Europe's progress towards a market economy is still rather uncertain and that not all the problems have been properly considered in these countries.

Parliamentary democracies should have nothing to do with them.

Nationalist groups in Western democracies are not subjugated people.

How can liberal democracies remain globally competitive?

Until recently, traditional forms of energy production have had the advantage of being based on established and mature industries.

The dire legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan weighs heavily on the Western democracies.

Many neo cons emerged from a leftist past, in which a belief in revolution from above was commonplace people s democracies yesterday, liberal democracies today.

Moroever, they are our kind of democracy constitutional democracies that contain all the features we take for granted in modern Western systems, not Islamic democracies like Iran.

And, in democracies, you can always take the matter to court.

To give full support to the political and institutional structures of emerging democracies in Africa.

One of the EU s strengths is the vitality of its democracies.

The mature infectious viral corpuscles would not occur if the HIV virus was not split by the HIV protease.

Mature C. mydas front appendages have only a single claw (as opposed to the hawksbill's two), although a second claw is sometimes prominent in young specimens.

One such trend is the political fragmentation and polarization evident in Western democracies.

Nonetheless, the campaign contains three important pointers for other Western democracies.

On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels.

Together with the US and other like minded democracies, we won the Cold War.

The world s liberal democracies must start believing in themselves again.

He delivered a speech in favor of what he called the illiberal state, offering five examples of successful systems that are not Western, not liberal, not liberal democracies, and perhaps not even democracies.

In the meantime, Western democracies must do their part and sustain engagement with Tunisia.

Brazil and India are democracies, while China and Russia are decidedly not.

So the next step for our democracies are transparent and verifiable elections.

That is just as important for the survival of our democracies and of world peace.

Only those who govern our democracies can do that, by shrinking our freedoms in freedom's name.

A continent once afflicted by military takeovers has slowly but surely implanted stable democracies.

The key to social and political stability in the new democracies is economic stability.

Recognizing that, while all democracies share common features, there is no one universal model of democracy,

The contemporary democracies from which Western jihadis defect offer an unprecedented degree of freedom.

The problem is that democracies have yet to learn how to manage debt effectively.

And yet, even as Western democracies seem least able to act, more will be required of them.

LONDON On both sides of the Atlantic, anti immigrant politics are undermining democracies and damaging lives.

We saw scientific revolutions, the Protestant Reformation, constitutional democracies possible where they had not been possible before.