Sentences with phrase «under dictator»

The National Palace, which is also known as the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, was built between 1936 and 1943 under the dictator General Jorge Ubico.

People and animals will suffer tremendously under this dictator - like regime.

Her chilling impressions of a dreary, muffled, and depleted land are juxtaposed with a uniquely to - the - point history of how North Korea became an industrialized Communist nation supported by the Soviet Union and China and ruled by Kim Il Sung, then collapsed catastrophically into poverty, darkness, and starvation under the dictator's son, Kim Jong Il.

Under dictator General Augusto Pinochet the Chilean military tortured some 4,500 people at Villa Grimaldi.

In Nicaragua, priest and Levite could be the United States that kept to the other side of the road when this Central American nation languished in the ditch under a dictator's heel.

The communist Khmer Rouge took control of the country under a dictator, Pol Pot.

then because he falls under the dictators wishes, first team regardless of performances, he is one of the favorites and perfectly OK with the teams status quo.....

Wenger is a fraud and any one who thinks Arsenal will change under these dictators running this club is a dreamer

Not exact matches

After all, the outcome of uprisings in MENA could disrupt the global economy more than the conflicts themselves, especially if the victors move to punish foreign companies with close relationships to the local dictators under attack.

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

What's more, «Tyrant,» can help Americans understand the plight of Muslims who suffer under the brutal rule of dictators, he said.

The crime of blasphemy was enshrined into Pakistani law under British rule, but strengthened during the years of military dictator Muhammad Zia - ul - Haq.

There is no data indicating that populations under ruthless dictators of past regimes have committed atrocities in the name of atheism.

The report, released this week, is called Total Denial: Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea and details how the freedom of belief almost doesn't exist in the country under Kim Jong - Un's dictator regime.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

He organized fundraisers for slain journalists, taught convicts in Chicago to read, and risked his life to tell the stories of people living under the brutal rule of dictators.

Strangely, they find the liberation of Iraqis from a vile dictator just, but do not find it unjust for us to be under military occupation for 38 long years.

There's no reply button under your next comment but one answer to your question about Christian fudamentalists who have committed atrocities is Efrain Rios Montt, dictator of Guatemala responsible for a massive and systematic campaign of slaughter against the native Guatemalans.

Therefore it is useless to try to define or draw similarities between non-theists or atheists with these odd - ball dictators and certainly the people who had to live under them in non-democratic regimes.

, under frightening political circumstances where the Church was being suppressed by Guinean dictator Sékou Touré and the military coup that succeeded him.

They simply are unable to live in an atmosphere of perpetual violence under a whole new set of «dictators» (the shia).

Kissinger's advice to Argentina's dictators to «get the terrorist problem under control as quickly as possible» left them «euphoric,» Dinges states.

That sly dictator lounging under the bathroom sink had been running my life for years.

he is a dictator who refused Henry a chance to coach the under 18s because he dosent want to have a successor.

Wenger who had been a God, morphed, under the temptation of huge salary assurances and supreme power gifted to him by an owner and a board without honour and crucially, any understanding of modern football, into a tinpot dictator, ageing and descending into early onset dementia, rather like Robert Mugabe.

We will all be forced to serve under an immortal robot DICTATOR whose power we can «never escape», warns...

during the Shah's time: each country had a dictator under the control of the US.

«Only a dictator could be elected under such conditions, with martial law.»

«Our coordinating partner: Intersociety had severally argued expertly and seminally that the emergence of dictatorship or tyranny and its sustenance under a civilian administration, is not the sole activity of a dictator or tyrant; but a hatched conspiratorial project involving other dictatorial or tyrannical elements.

Asked about Cuban communism, Garcia Márquez once told The New York Times that, while he admired the system and was a personal friend of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, he personally could never live under it.

Regardless of the result, the international community is keen to see Liberia's history of coups, assassinations and exiled dictators shift to a more stable footing after 12 years of peace under Sirleaf.

Hoey, who chairs the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe, had called the visit a «body blow» to people who had suffered under the Mugabe regime and said the that the meeting would «pander to the vanity of a wily and ruthless dictator».

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

He added that he was hounded by the military junta under the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, while he was a member of the National Democratic Coalition, yet he never deviated from fighting for the cause of the masses.

Lamido, who governed Jigawa between May 29, 2007 and May 29, 2015 under the Peoples Democratic Party, said that Buhari can not be fighting corruption after he worked under Nigeria's military dictator, General Sani Abacha, as chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund.

Keitel's key role in the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr to theapocalyptic plans for massive use of nerve gas during the last weeks of the war arepresented as stages in a military career caught under the spell of the dictator.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: Dear Dictator, Jason Biggs, Joe Syracuse, katie holmes, Lisa Addario, Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Seth Green

Bond kills a pocket dictator, is tortured for fourteen months after his capture under the opening credits, and emerges as some kind of creepy Zen yogi who meditates himself out of trouble.

The concluding chapter of his unofficial thematic trilogy dealing with different aspects of life under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (the previous entries being «Tony Manero» and «Post Mortem» which, appropriately was on last year's corresponding list), «No» distinguishes itself from its predecessors in more ways than just its off - the - cuff look and satirical, sarcastic humor.

There are some amazing stories behind Camilla Nielsson's feature - length documentary debut, Democrats, which documents three and a half years of behind - the - scenes drama and chicanery in Zimbabwe as a cross-party coalition attempts to draft a new constitution under the watchful eye of a newly free press and dictator Robert Mugabe.

The Last King of Scotland also tells the story of a young man who falls under the sway of a charismatic leader — in this case Idi Amin, the brutal dictator who terrorized Uganda in the 70s.

This dictator of a Nun uses wartime rationing as a way to misappropriate funds while fabricating excuses for the disappearance of some of the children under her care.

Since the basis of Jewish prayers consists of communal singing, Jews literally defied the communists right under their noses, with their Dictator's blessing (so to speak).

I'm not suggesting doing away with regulating and enforcing in the dog world — only that those doing it go under a different moniker, which, just maybe, would allow them to be seen by the public, and see themselves, less as heavy - handed dictators, more as noble do - gooders.

Our story begins in the Algol Solar System, a group of three planets that have recently come under the rule of a dark dictator named Lassic.

With the world powers and most of the planet's meta - human heroes and villains consolidated under his rule, Superman becomes Earth's dictator, his only opposition in the form of Batman and his Insurgency.

His character was both a comic relief and a riveting representation of how convoluted the media and brainwashed the general public can be when under the rule of a dictator.

Call of Duty's portrayal of former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega is justified under the First Amendment, according to Activision legal eagle and one - time New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Medici is under the tyrannous reign of dictator General Di Ravello and while it appears serene at the surface it is far from peaceful.

From the developer: Set in a dystopian world that doesn't seem like a departure from our own future, society is content living under the constant surveillance and absolute power of a malicious dictator.