Sentences with phrase «by communist states»

The other issue often brought up is the death toll produced by Communist states.

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The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a legacy of the Cold War conflict, which pitted the South, the United States and United Nations forces against the communist North, backed by China and Russia.

Lobby groups — representing Canadian businesses with relationships with Chinese communist state firms, as well as associations largely composed of recent immigrants from the PRC — predicted dire consequences for Canadian interests in China if our PM showed «disrespect» by not attending APEC in Beijing.

And buying shares in state companies gives outside investors no voice in management, which is appointed by the Communist Party.

The Hualong One, developed by two state - owned companies, is one multibillion - dollar facet of the Communist Party's aspirations to transform China into a creator of profitable technology from mobile phones to genetics.

What a farce is all this unctuous adulation of Marx, or of Lenin... They are men like any other men, and they have not attained to their present position as apostles of the communist State by the sheer force of their mild, pacific, self - abnegating temperaments.

Restricting prayer to privacy by the state is reminiscent of the horrors of the persecution and annihilation by the Communist Red Bloc back in the days.

During the state's early years the world is scandalized that it was established by violence, but presently the fact is accepted, and after a few years it is recognized as legitimate (cf. the Communist, Hitler, Franco states).

The state is established by violence — the French, American, Communist, Francoist revolutions.

[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.

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

And he understood, better than many churchmen but in harmony with the thinking of John Paul II, that the key to resolving the dangers posed by the nuclear deterrence system, in which the United States and the Soviet Union both had the capacity to «bounce the rubble,» was the collapse of the communist project and dramatic change in the governance of what was then the USSR.

It is a type of anti-communism distinguished by the following characteristics: it has no understanding of the causes of communism and emphasizes only self - defeating methods of opposing it; its starting point is a type of economic individualism that can not tell the difference between the modest institutions of the welfare state in this country and the first stages of communism; and it closes minds to the changes that have taken place in the Communist world.

Western nations led by the U.S. favored a united church front to protect a purportedly Christian civilization from the communist threat (think, for example, of the ecumenical activities of John Foster Dulles, secretary of state under Eisenhower), while countries under Soviet control supported the participation of their chiefly Orthodox churches in the ecumenical movement as an Eastern counterpoise.

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

Although cow slaughter is banned in most Indian states, Kerala and West Bengal — two states long ruled by communists elected through ballot — have refused to enact legislation banning beef.

Just as the new mayor of Turin launches a drive to make the city meat free, so a new Communist - led coalition government in the Indian state of Kerala is attempting to make its dietary mark — this time by introducing a fat tax.

No communist state has ever existed, so by one interpretation, the number of deaths caused by communism is 0.

The California State Assembly debated legislation Thursday introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santigo that would make «International Workers» Day,» a holiday with Socialist and Communist roots, a paid state holState Assembly debated legislation Thursday introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santigo that would make «International Workers» Day,» a holiday with Socialist and Communist roots, a paid state holstate holiday.

Is there a serious equivalent of this theory stating if the means of production in a capitalist society are controlled by a large monopoly, this society would look like a communist society?

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.

It's a nice theory that is fully contradicted by the fact that among the most anti-communist segments of population are those who know best - immigrants from «communist» (well, socialist) states.

The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of Communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents.

So you are probably referring to the societies that existed in the former Sovjet Union or the Eastern block states, which were governed by their Communist Parties - which doesn't make them Communist states.

@DVK, the USSR has never been a communist nation and was certainly not left - wing state, nor is it lauded by progressives.

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».

West Bengalese state had been governed since a few decades ago by the Left Front, which is lead by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

CPI Marxist's rule had been mostly conflicting with both illegal and legal activities of CPI Maoist, which had recently been declared a terrorist organisation by the Indian state (preventing CPI Maoist from participating in further legal activities) as well as other communist parties.

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.»

By tracking the large influx of Russian mathematicians into the United States following the Communist regime's demise, they found a number of significant effects.

John Ewing says that «almost every belief system has a history of stamping out non-believers» (24 April, p 24) but appears ignorant of the suppression of religious belief by officially atheist Communist states.

Seeking a long - term solution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council announced on 29 January the massive investment, which aims to achieve sustainable water use by controlling total water consumption, improving irrigation efficiency, and restricting groundwater pumping, among other measures.

Hey, folks, we're making a movie here: When this movie was in production, the American Right thundered that it was being made by Godless liberal communists in Hollywood financed by the Democratic National Committee as a propaganda piece to re-elect that Kenyan who usurped the office of President of the United States.

(f) As used in this title, the phrase «unlawful employment practice» shall not be deemed to include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor - management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist - action or Communist - front organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.

A long - standing member of the Communist Party and Vice President of the state - sponsored China Writers» Association, Mo Yan is said to write «within the system» (i.e., in a manner approved of by the Communist Party officials and which avoids criticism of Chinese authorities).

For example, in «The Quietest Man,» Tomas Novak who, together with his wife, was a Communist activist in Czechoslovakia, rues how his once - confident spouse is now cowed down by life in the United States.

In many interviews Maathai claimed that her years in the United States had a profound effect on her, especially since she was exposed to the many demonstrations against the Vietnam War (1954 — 75; a controversial war in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North Vietnam).

In what has been described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since its inception in 1949, tens of thousands soon joined in the peaceful protest, angered by widespread governmental corruption and calling for democratic reform.

Along the way you come across a designator tool you slyly take from a guard which allows you to manipulate both man and machine and you must use this designator, along with your cunning, to take your chance at overthrowing this Communist state that is inspired by unfortunate real world events from Romania's history books.

Eisler, who was Jewish, had gone into exile after his work was banned by the Nazis in 1933, had worked in New York and Hollywood, and in 1948 had returned to Europe, having been deported from the United States as an accused communist sympathizer.

In this Marxist - influenced essay, Greenberg claimed that true avant - garde art is a product of the Enlightenment's revolution of critical thinking, and as such resists and recoils from the degradation of culture in both mainstream capitalist and communist society, while acknowledging the paradox that, at the same time, the artist, dependent on the market or the state, remains inexorably attached «by an umbilical cord of gold».

For an artist living and working in what was then known as Yugoslavia, a Communist state ruled by Josip Broz Tito, the idea of progress must have seemed a sham.

Efforts to protect the United States from the perceived threat of Communist subversion were particularly enabled by several federal laws.

They predicted that by 2000 the world would either be in ultra polluted deadly state or people would be starving for lack of food or some combination and their conclusion was that unless we chose a communist approach effectively of controlling many aspects of our society along a very precise curve we were doomed to catastrophe.

Like Beijing's Line 4 subway line, the Shenyang metro system will be managed in part by Hong Kong's MTR Corp., an unlikely but promising development for a country where state - run management of public goods is a nominal pillar of the Communist Party's ideology.

Schneiderman v. United States, 320 U. S. 118, overruled earlier holdings that the courts could take judicial notice that the Communist Party does advocate overthrow of the Government by force and violence.

The insurance industry in China was nationalized in 1949 and thereafter offered by only a single state - owned company, the People's Insurance Company of China, which was eventually suspended as demand declined in a communist environment.