Sentences with phrase «authoritarian rule»

The demonstrations quickly became more about police brutality and the growing authoritarian rule of the Turkish government — than about the destruction of a park.

She specialises in Chinese and Russian politics and state - media relations under authoritarian rule.

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

In its principle of harmony the Enlightenment laid the foundations for democracy as against authoritarian rule.

Brown is generally pessimistic on this topic noting that «more often than not -LSB-...] revolution replaces one authoritarian rule by another» (p. 195).

Abbott is, of course, famous for dismissing climate science as «crap» and choosing as his chief business adviser a man, Maurice Newman, who believes climate science is being used by the UN to impose authoritarian rule over the world.

With this notion the authors add much nuance to conventional debates on authoritarian rule, which is typically seen as coercive and failing to enact balanced economic policies.

At a separate rally, organised by Labour First, Angela Eagle, the former leadership candidate and minister, accused Corbyn's supporters of allowing a culture of abuse of MPs and Labour party staff which could lead to a form of «populist authoritarian rule».

She was elected to Parliament in 2002, the year when Daniel arap Moi finally had to relinquish power, after subjecting the country to increasingly authoritarian rule ever since 1978.

Prize - winning author and award - winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century.From crumbling Havana, Cuba — still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall — to a comparatively upscale Hanoi, Vietnam, still struggling to free itself from Chinese - style authoritarian rule.

The country straddled residual neo-communist authoritarian rule and unfettered free enterprise generating a headlong momentum that culminated in the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

Amidst authoritarian rule, she staged the country's first workshop in Contact Improvisation, a technique which championed nonhierarchical values such as freedom of movement and the equality of all bodies.

Given that top members of this new administration appear to be careening at full tilt toward authoritarian rule, and ExxonMobil's strong presence in many countries around the world, Labowitz gets extra points, in our view, for noting the critical value of such discourse «in countries where governments sought to suppress their rights to freedom of association, expression, and assembly.»

And while Professor Ringen commented that we don't know enough about governance in China to explain to what extent it could be comparable to that of South Korea under authoritarian rule, China scholars might disagree.

These scenes are the only times when the heart of Ghaffarian's story — personal expression conveyed against authoritarian rule — feels authentic.

It also shows there are no quick fixes for countries like Tunisia, making the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy and rule of law.

Lisa Cox, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 2015/05/08 reported Mr Newman as having written that «Climate change is a hoax led by the United Nations so that it can end democracy and impose authoritarian rule».

It was widely seen as an effort to stifle free speech under an increasingly authoritarian rule.

Mugabe — the longserving president of Zimbabwe — was put under military control in what amounted to a coup ending his authoritarian rule.

A senior British banker lauded his authoritarian rule.

As the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Enrique Pena Nieto is attempting to heal the party's reputation for corruption and authoritarian rule.

Rakhine is home to the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority who say they have been persecuted by the Myanmar military during its decades of authoritarian rule.

In fact Jesus was, according to the Bible, fine with conditions like slavery and the authoritarian rule of Rome.

Its most obvious feature is the advocacy of the free market system allied with liberal democracy or authoritarian rule, as the only way of economic management for the entire globe.

And the alternatives seem to be, as I have said already, anarchic social war or authoritarian rule.

In other words, corporal punishment is more common where people live under restrictive, authoritarian rule.

A wide variety of organizations are active in this area, both in new democracies and in those countries that have returned to democracy after periods of authoritarian rule.

Since the Cold War, there have been a proliferation of attempts to promote democracy across the world, whether in new democracies or countries that have returned to democracy after a period of authoritarian rule.

In a swift reaction, counsel to Dokpesi, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, said the days of authoritarian rule has returned as only last week, the EFCC invited Daar Communications Holdings, over alleged contracts to the company from the office of the former National Security Adviser.

The speakers did not deny the ruthless nature of authoritarian rule that overshadowed its effective governance.

Unfortunately, I think that's kind of inevitable - any system that requires a centrally planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form of government, which lends itself to authoritarian rule.

The authors stressed the importance of governance under authoritarian rule, and explored it through the prism of South Korean social policy from 1945 to 2000.

Before democratisation, under the authoritarian rule of the President Park Chung Hee, the South Korean government employed social policy to mobilise alliances with different non-state actors.

Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa has just returned to the country to take power after Robert Mugabe's resignation brought a sudden end to 37 years of authoritarian rule.

When the counterweight is removed, the result is the collapse of democracy and rise of authoritarian rule.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan - ocha shows little sign of listening to growing public opposition to his military junta's authoritarian rule.

«We have to put a stop to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's authoritarian rule and his unwillingness to work with the governor and the state Senate to get things done.

Now, under authoritarian rule, Alexis Bledel's Emily is branded a «gender traitor» and forced to carry children for the rich and infertile.

Another member of the gang we know from the original Red Dead Redemption, in 1911 Javier has returned to his home country of Mexico and can be found (and captured or killed) working as a hired gun for the authoritarian rule of President Sanchez, Colonel Allende and Captain DeSanta.

Paul Bettany's crime lord Dryden Voss is a chief in the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate, which operates in the underbelly of the Empire's authoritarian rule.

In the 1970s, he participated in protests against the authoritarian rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; in the 80s, he volunteered in the Iran - Iraq war; and, since 2009, he has served as the chief editor for Asr - e Pandishanbeh (Thursday Evening), an Iranian literary magazine.

The common denominator is that in both periods there was little personal freedom with the Russian people subjected to authoritarian rule.

A policy that compels lawyers to privately acknowledge equality - related obligations, Pardy argues, is compelled speech and akin to authoritarian rule.

After 30 years of authoritarian rule, the people of Egypt are «breaking through the fear barrier».

Authoritarian rule is the deadly enemy of inspiration.