Sentences with phrase «by communist leader»

A recent report by Reuters explains that pet ownership was once banned by Communist leader Mao Zedong as a «bourgeois pastime.»

Not exact matches

Beijing wrapped up a meeting of top Communist Party economic leaders Wednesday by endorsing a document entitled «Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics.»

For example, I was recently told by a senior business leader of a global technology company — with more than 10,000 staff in China — that the company must now promote the establishment of Communist party committees inside its operations in the country.

At the 19th Communist Party National Congress held in October, President Xi unveiled a bold, long - term vision to transform China into a «great modern socialist country» — a global leader in innovation and trade that boasts sustainable growth, a cleaner environment and reduced inequality — by the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic in 2049.

Much of the decline has been self - imposed as communist leaders try to steer China to more sustainable growth driven by domestic consumption following the past decade's explosive expansion based on trade and investment.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

The results of this strategy included the effective destruction of the Church in Hungary, whose leadership became a subsidiary of the Hungarian communist party; the thorough penetration of the Vatican by Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies (to the benefit of communist negotiators); and the undercutting of Catholic leaders in Poland and in what was then Czechoslovakia.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

Pastor Tokes had hard words for Reformed and Orthodox leaders who collaborated with the regime, and for Western church leaders who supported Communist oppression by their silence, or worse.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Gramsci himself, by that time the leader of the Italian Communist party, was arrested in 1926 after his parliamentary immunity was violated and died in 1937 after years of bad food and maltreatment in a Fascist prison.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

People's democratic dictatorship is a phrase incorporated into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong, leader the Communist Party of China (CPC).

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

Writing in response to a politics.co.uk questionnaire, the Liberal Democrat leader explained that while the Falklands War and the miners» strike had had a big impact, it was the prospect of invasion by communist forces which first mobilised him.

As the International Trade Union Confederation has phrased it, «The trade union movement is controlled by the Cuban state, and the leaders of the single union CTC are not elected by the workers but appointed by the state and the Communist Party of Cuba».

His opinion was codified by the National Intelligence Estimate of September 15, 1954, which stated, «Soviet leaders probably envision: (a) the elimination of every world power center capable of competing with the USSR; (b) the spread of communism to all parts of the world; and (c) Soviet domination over all other communist regimes.»

She is adopted by a young communist leader, Julien Lavarde (Billy Crudup), masquerading as his father's housekeeper.

As you survey the unfolding landscapes in this 50th Anniversary issue of the James Bond series, you may think, as did I, that the most impressive decision was made not by Sam Mendes, who directs the movie, not by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan who scripted the work, but by a small group of top leaders in the Chinese Communist party.

Your leaders will lead you to believe that the Slovenian people love you, that you are being attacked only by «tiny numbers of communists.»

In 1949, Communist Party Leader Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people adhere strictly to the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world.

For that matter, one would think that someone named Fong would know that Communist China is by far the world's leader in CO2 emissions, because it is burning vast amounts of coal.

[37] By 1957, 140 leaders and members of the Communist Party had been charged under the law, of whom 93 were convicted.