Sentences with phrase «civilian president after»

In 1985, for example, José Sarney became the country's first civilian president after 21 years of military rule and promised to expropriate 14 million hectares of land and settle 1.4 million peasants.

Buhari, a former military general, had on May 29, 2015, while being inaugurated as civilian president after defeating Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party promised to carry all sections of the country along in his administration by saying «I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody».

Not exact matches

«As we honor our brave military men and women this coming Veterans Day, we should continue to extend special opportunities to transition to civilian life after their service is done,» said Mike Bidwell, CEO and President of The Dwyer Group and a U.S. military veteran.

A month after Japan's destruction of the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt established the Wartime Production Board to supervise the conversion of the country's industrial might from civilian to military purposes.

In the Philippines, after the 1978 National Assembly elections, President Ferdinand Marcos imprisoned ten of the twenty - one losing opposition candidates; many prisoners were tortured, many civilians were killed.

Tony Blair gave Kazakhstan's autocratic president advice on how to manage his image after the slaughter of unarmed civilians protesting against his regime.

His successor, John Kufuor, was 61 when he became President in 2001 after the first civilian change of power.

Shari Duval — founder and president of K9s for Warriors, which pairs veterans who suffer from PTSD and other wounds of war with rescue dogs who've been specially trained as service dogs to help these veterans function more effectively in civilian life — recounts how concern over profound changes in her son, Brett Simon, after he returned from two tours of duty in Iraq spurred her to launch the organization.