Sentences with phrase «political dictatorship»

Unless the effects of imbecilic and reactionary political dictatorship are even worse than many fear, a functioning and progressive legal machine will continue to operate in one way or another.

A chilling account of the history is told in Valery N. Soyfer, «The Consequences of Political Dictatorship for Russian Science,» Nature Reviews Genetics, Vol.

While years of political dictatorship and repression are no doubt the top line cause of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt, the background impact of food price rises and high level of food insecurity in

All three had solo exhibitions at the Lyceum women's club gallery, a key venue of the Cuban vanguard since its founding in 1928, and a site of prior vanguard resistance to political dictatorship.

Fifth, what of China, which attempts to combine elements of economic freedom with political dictatorship?

How can one identify with a set - up which, in most parts of its program, flatly promotes the consumer society and often obeys political dictatorship!

As an African who sees the reality of everyday life, poverty and political dictatorship, it is not much different from our brother in Iran who pays the price of Islam dictatorship.

Not exact matches

South Korea's government is to offer economic and political concessions to North Korea if the dictatorship freezes its missile program and allows nuclear inspections, according to reports.

Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

There are also countries run by Kings (a form of dictatorship, depending on what political science book you read) that are our allies and doing as well for their people as congress does for ours.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

The primary political and educational objective for confronting young Germans with their country's darkest past and their ancestors» guilt is, above all, to make them understand the consequences of Hitler's dictatorship, the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and to make them appreciate the values and inst.itutions that protect freedom and democracy.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

The political regime that applied itself to the plan of Jeffrey Sachs did not take the form of dictatorship.

If we map socio - political structures to types of theism we have democracy is agnostic (belief or not what you want), capitalism is pantheism (money is God and everything has a price) and dictatorships and other non-democracies are akin to prophet - led religions or mono - theisms.

U.S. policy toward Latin America has fluctuated between open support of dictatorships and hostility toward movements of liberation, and advocacy of a «restricted democracy,» in which a limited amount of political space is allowed so long as it does not rock the boat too much internally and in the hemisphere.

The Catholic church is a political party and a dictatorship.

Large capital investments in the Third World on the part of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.

Globalization paradigm has invariably brought a political system - borrowing a term from Prof. Rajni Kothari «dictatorship of money».

Indeed, the list of Third World governments committed to the goal of shaping the demographic pattern of their societies seems to cover the political spectrum, including not only dictatorships and one - party states (Haiti, Indonesia), but also monarchies (Morocco, Nepal) and a number of genuine constitutional democracies (such as Barbados and Botswana).

Martyrdom in the early churches as well as in the contemporary churches has provided signs of a political witness against tyranny and totalitarian dictatorships.

In an ordinary dictatorship such as Mussolini's thousands of people were arrested for political crimes, but hundreds of these were acquitted by the Italian courts.

The base was used as a detention centre during the 1973 - 1990 dictatorship, during which around 40,000 people were killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons.

Every time Atheists take control of the political process dictatorship and death of millions has resulted; yes your atheism is a great force to believe in.

Americans and citizens across the world raised money to help Haitians rebuild their country, one ravaged by colonialism, dictatorship, poverty, and foreign political interference even before the earthquake.

Why a party that has long promoted the idea of pluralism in the expression of political ideas and always fought any kind of dictatorship be it civilian or military would allow this baseless assumption to simmer down and engulf its entirety can only be explained by Nana Addo and his clique of latter - day militants whose venom is only expressed at home but NOT outside our NPP borders.

The killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi during last Tuesday's attack on the U.S. mission has upset the delicate political transition from dictatorship to democracy that was unfolding here in Libya.

Specially with theirs historical and political differences regarding Pinochet dictatorship.

The NLC, which accused Dr Nkrumah of unbridled dissipation of the country's wealth and dictatorship, failed to continue with his lofty vision and handed over political power to the Progress Party (PP), led by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, after elections in 1969.

Democratic institutions built and empowered over three decades of dynamic political activity after Brazil gradually broke the chains of dictatorship would remain firm, or so the story predicted, and would provide solid foundations for stabilisation and recovery.

It teaches us that political transitions (and therefore power withdrawal) in dictatorships must be gradual, and that accountable institutions and systems of checks - and - balances are crucial in instituting restraints and keeping personal power in check.

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

After forty years of dictatorship, the political landscape was far from settled, there was the official party of the dictatorship (the Falange), and the traditional - but again, illegal - Socialist and Communist parties, and nationalist parties and little else.

«The leadership of the APC in Kaduna would not accept arrogance of power and dictatorship; this is our state and we are sending this message very clear to the political adviser and his principal that we will not compromise, we need free fair and credible election,» Sani said.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

In a text message sent to our correspondent on Sunday, Babatope said Buhari manipulated the political events in Ondo State in order to favour Ibrahim and set the state on the path of dictatorship.

Democracies often have fragile foundations formed from the ashes of decades of dictatorship or various political and economic crises.

Dictatorships will generally be led by a single political party, a military junta, a military or armed forces council or whatever the leaders might wish to call it.

As the world shifted to the Cold War, and capitalist democracies jockeyed against communist dictatorships, antibiotics emerged as political instruments.

He claims that the nature of a country's political system — specifically, whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship — is determined by psychological biases triggered by the threat of disease (See «Genes, germs and the origins of politics»).

He says that the nature of the political system that holds sway in a particular country — whether it is a repressive dictatorship or a liberal democracy — may be determined in large part by a single factor: the prevalence of infectious disease.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Marriage and trust in marriage, dictatorships, secret police, amnesty, political torture, rape, injustice and revenge.

Roman Polanski's recent film Death and the Maiden is a psychological thriller made all the more frightening by the knowledge that it is based upon the political tactic of terror employed by many dictatorships in South America.

This time around, his comedy — the Palme d'Or winner that explores the dictatorship of political correctness — introduces us to an experimental artist who curates a social experiment involving an enclosed space in which people are told to behave responsibly.

If the ambition is broader, and this in fact a science - fiction - laced exploration of life under some kind of miscellaneous totalitarian dictatorship and the homogenisation of mankind, then you'd be forced to concede that the film fails to ignite that particular political powder - keg.

The father has forgotten but the mother has not that Adi was preceded by a brother, Ramli, who was killed during the «communist» purge (the picture reiterates that anyone who didn't immediately fall in line with the military dictatorship was tarred with the same brush, regardless of political or religious affiliation)-- though «killed» somehow undersells his execution, a two - day ordeal that culminated in Ramli's castration.

Seemingly the director's most political film, what it embodies more than an overt condemnation of fascism is a near peerless use of space, light and shadow to mirror an architecture of the mind, wherein an Italian bureaucrat (Jean - Louis Trintignant) mired within Mussolini's fascist dictatorship must decide between playing by the rules or carving out his own identity.

5 @ 5: Everyday People (10/9 & 10/10) The New Environmentalists — from Peru to Tanzania — John Antonelli (co-director), Will Parrinello (co-director), Tom Dusenbery (co-director) Oddball — Joshua Moore (director), Liz Payne (editor & wife of Joshua Moore) Stolen Youth: Political Prisoner of the Dictatorship — Joshua Dylan Mellars (director), Sofia Englund (producer) Washed Away (10/10 only)-- Dana Nachman (director), Brandon Anderton (subject), Ian Reinhard (executive producer)

I will say thatmaking a true political - military movie for teens, and this time not shying away from the big issues of propaganda, fear, and dictatorships, shows a confidence in the audience I really appreciate, and felt absent from the first two films.

While the traditional forces of the left insist on emphasising the crimes of the dictatorship and conventional forms of political struggle,