Sentences with phrase «by authoritarian regimes»

From the article:... OVERVIEW More aggressive tactics by authoritarian regimes and an upsurge in terrorist attacks contributed to a disturbing decline in global freedom in 2014.

In 1952, as the world continued to take stock of the devastation wrought by authoritarian regimes, a coalition of prominent universities and preparatory schools called...

The administration defended President Trump's idea for a national military parade, as some former military officials likened the proposed parade to affairs held by authoritarian regimes and some lawmakers questioned the costs that might be involved.

State propaganda and censorship by authoritarian regimes remains the biggest threat to a free press.

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

Not exact matches

The United Arab Emirates and Qatar, on the other hand, are governed by petro - monarchies (substitute «authoritarian - capitalist regimes» for China, which has been on a fancy - airport - building tear) with seemingly limitless capital to pamper American plutocrats bearing golf - course plans.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

You go on about how human rights are abused «by atheists,» where you live, but ironically most Western atheists strongly disapprove of the kinds of authoritarian regimes that do that.

Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

Rebukes from authoritarian regimes such as China, which have previously been criticised by Britain for implementing similar policies, will have been particularly difficult for ministers to read.

We also have a duty to support the struggle of the Tibetan people whose culture is being slowly eradicated by the authoritarian Chinese communist regime.

I mean, the elections could definitely be contested by other people... Also certain regimes, like China, tolerate dissent to a certain extent but do not listen to them at all, thus are still authoritarian.

Post-Tsar Russia, post-colonial Africa, South America - you find numerous examples, where the overthrowing of authoritarian regime has resulted in a short period of quasi-democracy, quickly replaced by dictatorships.

The event smacked of the Arab Spring, when authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and northern Africa fell to rebellions that were in part inspired by social media.

Borrowing Repertoires: In an era of increased technological innovation and access to information, competitive authoritarian regimes are increasingly aware of the methods employed by similar polities to consolidate and maintain their grip on power and have employed common tactics to tilt the institutional playing field in their favor, reducing international standards and expectations in the process.

This has benefitted competitive authoritarian regimes insofar as increased regional alliances have made isolation more difficult and impractical due to the benefits of increased trade, investment, and diplomatic cover provided by these organizations.

``... from the beginning Putin and his circle sought to create an authoritarian regime ruled by a close - knit cabal,» Dawisha writes.

For years, though, heeding calls by the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and others, many stayed away in protest of Myanmar's authoritarian regime.

By and large, history's most striking examples are from authoritarian regimes.

Authoritarian regimes are usually inefficient and corrupt, driven by the very inability to achieve goals through normal legal means.

Now, that privatized company, Sasol, may help liberate Western democracies (and non-Western ones, like India) from the grip of crude oil produced largely by loathsome authoritarian regimes.

Authors were inspired by the Guimarães CineClube, founded in 1953 during the authoritarian Portuguese regime Estado Novo and devoted to distributing international films that conflicted with the reigning right - wing ideology, states a press release published at Dezeen.