Sentences with phrase «as authoritarian states»

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In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.»

This anti-Bitcoin memo, which is not up for a vote as a referendum by the citizens of New Jersey, is an authoritarian decree by a totally unaccountable arm of the state.

People are free to worship as they please in a true Islamic state but there are none today, just a bunch claiming to be so while running authoritarian regimes.

Subsequent history has seen a «revenge of history», as powerful authoritarian states play an increasing role in the trade game, but refuse to play by the same rules.

The social policy approach may be fruitful in studying other authoritarian regimes, as it provides a window into often invisible complex relationships between the state and non-state actors.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

The dominant parties in southern Africa maintain their hold on power through a mix of co-option and coercion and are not unlike their counterparts in other competitive authoritarian states such as Mexico, Argentina and Russia.

Not exactly, Democracies such as the United States and Russia are doing better financially than some Authoritarian countries such as North Korea.

The 2016 Democracy Index classifies Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine as «hybrid regimes», Tunisia as a «flawed democracy» and all other Arab states as «authoritarian regimes».

In November alone, prime minister David Cameron visited the authoritarian leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a salesman for BAE Systems» Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, while the Emir of Kuwait has been treated to a state banquet at Windsor Castle at which another guest was BAE's chair, Dick Olver.

Look for the highly authoritarian GOP that controls the entire state to drag their feet as much as possible on the process, regardless of what they think the outcome will be.

Mr Cameron even stole Tony Blair's increasingly infamous description of Gordon Brown to paint his new political opponent as an unreformed authoritarian obsessed with state solutions to society's problems.

If one takes your cynical argument to the extreme, we might as well install an actual authoritarian dictatorship in the State since that way we have less people on the public through....

This was the beginning of the welfare state and is considered by some as an authoritarian and non-egalitarian form of «socialism».

It would be consistent with the liberal tradition of the United States and less so in Europe where the right had authoritarian origins as being in favour of monarchy.

Authoritarian states like to tweak their technical infrastructure, their national laws and their firewalls to «protect sovereignty in cyberspace», as they like to say — which in practice means protecting intellectual property thieves from foreign pressure and rounding up dissidents at home.

In Berlin, there is a major shift, as the overpowering nature of that authoritarian state becomes clearer and clearer.

The book is intended as a cautionary tale about the perils of acquiescing to an authoritarian state.

Neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian, we can only hope that the competitive authoritarian regime will prove useful as a warning to all states in transition about the pitfalls found on the road to democracy, yet given the alarming number of flawed elections we have seen in 2013, this may only be wishful thinking.

Australians, generally, are waking up to the fact the ABC is a taxpayer funded anti Australian, anti farmer, anti working man / woman, anti truth seeking and anti scientific subversive organisation that has as its ideological base the destruction of freedom and capitalism to be replaced by an authoritarian socialist state that places them at the head of the totem pole.

With Donald Trump about to become the next President of the United States; with the United Kingdom getting ready to indulge in self - harm with a hard exit from the European Union; as European electorates consider voting for racists and authoritarians; and as the dreadful tragedy in Syria unfolds: it does really seem that the world's whole sap is sunk.

But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good, like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.

The dark irony here is that, while very general risk - induced doubts in the benevolence of the promises of governments to protect their citizens lead to criticisms of the inefficiency of scholarly and state authorities, critics are blind to the possibilities of erecting (or expanding) the authoritarian state on this very inefficiency... Central, however, are not, as with Huntington, traditional religiously grounded «civilizations», but opposing risk belief religions.

2016 will be remembered as the year Donald Trump — a wealthy, narcissistic political novice with a strong authoritarian bent — was elected president of the United States after campaigning against economic globalization.

P - 2 I also disagree with - no creature as died from «global warming» - creatures can die from hot weather, but far more die from cold weather - many birds flee cold weather I merely wanted to point out an obvious problem of this lefty religion - which can be stated more simply as no else wants to live in a authoritarian police state.

Not that it is always easy to decide when anonymity is appropriate in the given case; for example, when it is used to post hate comments in response to what is viewed as the authoritarian government of the United States, is this the kind of political speech that should be protected through allowing anonymity?