Sentences with phrase «by military dictatorships»

We went through three decades in which we saw brief periods of constitutional rule interrupted by military dictatorships.

Much of the 20th century saw periods of democracy followed by military dictatorships, the last and most brutal being from 1976 — 1983.

From 1976 to 1983, the South American country of Argentina was governed by a military dictatorship under the title of the National Reorganization Process.

In 1974, he was imprisoned for a short time by the military dictatorship then ruling in Brazil.

Born in 1932, while his country was still under Japanese colonization, he grew up during the Korean War that divided his country, and saw South Korea become a young and unstable democratic nation ruled by a military dictatorship.

I was sent to boarding school in Lagos at 13, and later moved to the US after secondary school when we won the Green Card Lottery — my mother entered us so that my siblings and I would have bigger goals than we could in a Nigeria stifled by military dictatorship.

Not exact matches

Workers have a difficulty to fight against the plan because they have experienced corruption by illicit collusion between the government and capital from military dictatorship.

Today we witness police states and military dictatorships that justify their actions by appealing to the necessities of «socialist revolution,» «national security,» or both.

By the time I came to write Nemesis, I no longer doubted that maintaining our empire abroad required resources and commitments that would inevitably undercut, or simply skirt, what was left of our domestic democracy and that might, in the end, produce a military dictatorship or — far more likely — its civilian equivalent.

The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention centre used during the country's brutal dictatorship.

Why a party that has long promoted the idea of pluralism in the expression of political ideas and always fought any kind of dictatorship be it civilian or military would allow this baseless assumption to simmer down and engulf its entirety can only be explained by Nana Addo and his clique of latter - day militants whose venom is only expressed at home but NOT outside our NPP borders.

Burma has been ruled by an oppressive military dictatorship since 1962.

It is no coincidence that a far - right military junta decided to try to take the islands by force in 1982, partly to distract from its own economic inadequacies and partly out of the need for right - wing dictatorships to gather momentum by virtue of perceived strength.

Togbui Adrakpanya said the unanimous decision to enstool Former President Rawlings who is a son of the land as Nutifafa fia has been informed by the fact that he was a military ruler who relinquished dictatorship and embraced democratic rule by making a peaceful handover after his term.

Dictatorships will generally be led by a single political party, a military junta, a military or armed forces council or whatever the leaders might wish to call it.

The massive Sony hacking scandal spurred by the film's satirical take on Kim Jong - un and the North Korean military dictatorship spread anxiety over depictions of the reclusive and secretive state throughout Hollywood.

The father has forgotten but the mother has not that Adi was preceded by a brother, Ramli, who was killed during the «communist» purge (the picture reiterates that anyone who didn't immediately fall in line with the military dictatorship was tarred with the same brush, regardless of political or religious affiliation)-- though «killed» somehow undersells his execution, a two - day ordeal that culminated in Ramli's castration.

Of course, openness is relative — there's still plenty of myth and symbolism to sift through — but the occultation is in direct dialogue with the regime set in place by Thailand's military dictatorship.

Knowing that cars had to be designed by someone, that they did not just happen, motivated him to study industrial design at La Plata University, but student political activity during the years of the military dictatorship closed the school for three years.

It was a massive groundswell of public protest against the military dictatorship of Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn and to demand the release of 13 students arrested by the military.

It isn't long before Jade is recruited by the IRIS Network, who suspect that the Alpha Sections — a military dictatorship promising to defend the populace from the Domz — are actually behind the planet - wide disappearances that have been taking place.

The old Empire, backed by the divine right of kings, was gone, replaced by a far weaker Roman - style military dictatorship... a dictatorship that had lost a war and fallen under High Elf control.

By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time, the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant brutality became a subject for Maiolino's work.

By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time, the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant...

Poema / Processo How Brazil's forgotten poetry movement fought a military dictatorship by combining politics, protest and the visual arts.

Lee Bul was born in the 1960s in South Korea, a period of social and economic upheaval marked by the transition from military dictatorship to a democratic state.

Raised in San Sebastian, Spain in the years following the Franco dictatorship — a time of political turmoil in which military tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets were common — their formative years were marked by chaos and emotional instability.

Born in Chile in 1982, Valenzuela came of age during the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, an era when dissent was forcefully silenced by the government.

The exhibition takes its title borrowed from a controversial work by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles done in the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1970.

Putatively governed by all of the countries that comprise the United Nations (which includes military dictatorships and Communist regimes with rather different expectations in this regard), it's really governed by no one.