Sentences with phrase «by socialist governments»

In Spain, for example, serious corruption scandals referring to decades of illegal financing by the conservative party, and the atrocious mismanagement of a fund created by the socialist government of Andalucía to aid companies engaged in collective dismissal procedures (EREs in their Spanish acronym) have recently emerged.

Thus, although the election of François Mitterrand was welcomed by the intellectual left, it did not lead to its reconciliation with politicians and the state.2 In practice, intellectuals never found much in common with the policies implemented by the socialist government and by the time Mitterrand's economic policy U-turn occurred in 1983, the cleavage became ever so apparent and intellectuals resumed to disapproval.

Not exact matches

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

The move comes at a time when Maduro's socialist government is in the midst of a crackdown on domestic freedoms and Caracas» financial transactions have been hamstrung by Western sanctions.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

The meaning soon became apparent: tolerated by Mrs. Merkel and actively opposed by Britain, Juncker needed the support of the French socialist government.

Even the Australian government (which ran on the last election of cancelling the carbon tax imposed by the previous socialist government; and they won) have just cancelled all government funding of solar and wind power generation.

She then demanded a crackdown on Islamists in France, which would go on to be accepted, down to the details, by the country's Socialist government over the next few days.

In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.

A socialist government would not mandate health care by providing millions of new customers to insurance companies.

The idea of the people being compelled, essentially the point of a gun by the government, to surrender their property so it can be redistributed to people the government has deemed more deserving is socialist / communist not Christian.

Tuesday's meeting at the Elysee Palace, the official presidential residence, was held days before a planned demonstration against a draft law unveiled in November by France's Socialist government that would allow gay marriage.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

As national morality continues to decline (thanks to the left and the failure of evangelicals) and socialist government grows we can expect more meaningless violence and more calls to disarm Americans of effective weaponry by those who trust in (or run) government.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The Government tries to play God by re-distributing the wealth in a socialist manner.

Colonel George Wigg, who has been the watchdog for scandals and security leaks in Harold Wilson's government and a close confidant of the Prime Minister (he helped win the election for the Socialists by exposing Profumo), became the No. 1 man in British racing last week.

Other countries can offer extended maternity leave with pay because of the socialist type government welfare systems (provided by very high taxes).

And India was historically a socialist state under the governance of the INC, but it became too bureaucratic and fell to the corruption that was left over from the rule of the British East India Company, so India was then reformed by a BJP government into a more capitalist economy.

At the end I go through a list of feminists, Bengali socialists and British liberals who are disillusioned by the failure of the Labour government to stand by them rather than their enemies.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Time to reject the ideological templates provided by the socialist left and the libertarian right and to embrace a new centre ground in which government steps up — and not back — to act on behalf of us all.

They are closer to capitalism than to socialism because in a pure socialist world everything would be needed to be controlled by the government.

The recently deceased Denis Healey once argued, «No Socialist Party with the prospect of forming a government could accept a system by which important fields of national policy were surrendered to a supranational European representative authority».

Accra, Oct. 8, GNA — The Socialist International says it is confident the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would win hands down the December 7 polls, following the expanded infrastructure development and provision of social services by the government.

Last July the Christian Democrat - Socialist (CSV) government led by Jean - Claude Juncker (who had been PM since 1995) collapsed, leading to the first unscheduled elections since the late 1950s.

In order to revive its electoral fortunes the Labour party had to abandon much of its socialist baggage and pledge not to reverse changes brought about by 18 years of conservative government.

«Loosening the rigid labour market is seen as vital to ensure Spain's long - term economic recovery and to ease market fears of a Greek - style debt crisis by proving Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero's unpopular government can act.

Given that it is a completely socialist country in which everyone's «needs» as determined by the government elite are provided through unbelievable levels of taxation; and, which was the perfect experimental environment for all of this due to its relative geographic isolation and extremely homogeneous population, it is no wonder that this country has surpassed every other in meeting the UN's and UNESCO's goals.

The resistance is led by the government of President Michelle Bachelet, a Socialist who is aligned with the country's Communist forces.

Obsessed by public transport, like so many members of his seemingly socialist much - younger generation, the lad is a latter - day New Dealer, a boisterous supporter of government enterprises like mass transit and fire and police departments.

President Hugo Chavez's government has taken control of a landmark hotel run by Hilton on Margarita island, announcing another nationalization by socialist - run Venezuela.

Labeled radicals and feeling persecuted by the US government, they relocate their followers to the one place they believe they can create a socialist utopia: the jungles of South America.

Many of Sidibé's more candid shots were taken at parties and celebrations that occurred behind closed doors and past the curfew that had been instituted by the new socialist government.

Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government.

Her stylized sinewy male bodies are decidedly reminiscent of the Socialist Realism used in Soviet - era art, particularly in propaganda used by the Russian government to invoke nationalistic pride and to glorify and propagate the ideologies of authoritarian leaders.

OUR friends over at Stop These Things (STT) analyse the dire power issues faced by Victoria and South Australia whose socialist state governments have embraced the unreliable - energy «de-evolution» with predictably devastating results...

In the UK A (neurin) Bevan was the left wing Socialist Minister of Health who took credit for introducing the National Health Service, although it was originally conceived by Sir William Beveridge in his 1942 Report to Churchill's coalition government.

True, true, instead of the economic transformation for which Minister Al Gore opines — a unified Earth under a centralized European - style secular socialist government, as he blames the practice of capitalism by a wasteful and over-consuming free people as the cause of, climate change and extreme poverty and disease — the success of America should be a source of pride hope and an example to be emulated: Gore should have, like George Bush, supported with America with his whole heart on behalf of those everywhere who long for individual liberty.

Those calculations you speak of are obviously biased by the comfy funding of socialist governments.

When you give a few people power over many — such as we now have with the Left being represented by academia and mainstream secular - socialist government and media — it's not long before the ears of despots are filled with the sort of ringing that leads to raging propaganda and the death of millions.

Driven by a quest for money and power, he added, «what they're doing in the U.S. is using CO2 to impose all kinds of restrictions to push a socialist government.»

UN governance is on it's way, (we have the «lite» version in the EU) with all national democracies subordinate to a faceless unelected elite, so socialist dictatorship government by stealth will be with you all very soon comrades.

In the most recent provincial election the Greens won three seats and now hold the balance of power in a minority government by lending their support to the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) which has formed government.

AS long as Left - wing / socialist governments can borrow and use other peoples» money for ideological «green» symbolism, the economic rot of unreliables — wind and solar power — fed by a collective climate change madness, will continue unchallenged, despite what the majority of people want over the eco-elites and the > 25 year - old social justice warriors.

It's quite clear the reason is a bias against government, as I covered in my video series (particularly «Get What You Want,» and «No Holds Barred»), and tipped off by your featured statement «Don't you know that the AGW spin is nothing more than a socialist / communist attempt to take over the world?

Strong began Ontario Hydro's problems when appointed Chairman by NDP Premier Bob Rae's socialist government.

This, in turn, drives the almost universal socialist demand for «World Government»: only by implementing their ideals everywhere can they avoid being out - competed by those who don't.

We are not talking in the Lola case or in family law generally of nationalizing the means of production, or having the government prescribe the details of family relationships — which would not necessarily be «socialist», it would just be interventionist, possibly heavy - handed — that's a debate we can have without misleading labels that are probably not as emotionally potent among Slaw readers as they are among the rabble that can be roused by their use (and we're not aiming at an emotional debate here, are we?)