Sentences with phrase «autocratic president»

In July 2010, Global Witness published Risky Business, which documented allegations from a range of sources that Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president of Kazakhstan, is in a position to influence Kazakhmys plc through close ties to its key managers, including Vladimir Kim.

A cousin of the autocratic president discovers how profitable it is to crank up that logging or mining operation on the edge of the preserve.

Tony Blair gave Kazakhstan's autocratic president advice on how to manage his image after the slaughter of unarmed civilians protesting against his regime.

Democratic Assemblyman Alec Brook - Krasny (D - 46th Assembly District - Brooklyn), the first Soviet - born, Russian - speaking Member of the Assembly, has signed onto Tedisco's resolution as a co-sponsor and is urging his counterparts in Washington, D.C. to send a crystal clear message to Russian autocratic President Vladimir Putin, that invading a sovereign nation is an unacceptable violation of international law.

Documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley show the US channeled funding... [that]... vigorously supported activists and politicians who have fomented unrest in Egypt, after autocratic president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising in February 2011.

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It was not that the older presidents lacked great, even autocratic, authority, but that the present task was so formidable: the institutions had to be made over entirely, and made answerable to new constituencies.

«Particularly, by the autocratic nature of our president, the Federal Government is not prepared to listen to wise counsel, hence the desperation to take unwarranted loans even if the future of Nigeria and its people will be mortgaged.

The autocratic Dos Santos, 74, became president in September 1979, making him Africa's second - longest serving leader — one month short of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

President Jonathan lacks democratic credential and exercises his true inner character of being an autocratic - dictator by trying to remove governor Amaechi as chairman of Nigeria state governors forum.

«He has pushed too many autocratic programs without real consideration of the consequences for educators,» says United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo - Pearl.

Maathai saw in the Green Belt Movement both a good in itself, and a way in which women could discover they were not powerless in the face of autocratic husbands, village chiefs and a ruthless president.

Tensions in Egypt boiled over in January 2011, following 30 years of autocratic rule under former president Hosni El Sayed Mubarak; protestors filled Tahrir Square, which became the catalyst for two governments being overthrown, first in 2011 and, following the election of the Moslem Brotherhood, in 2013.