Sentences with phrase «found in dictatorships»

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Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

The monks» enemies are not of flesh and bone - their enemies are things like intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which can be found in the heart of men.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

But alongside markets you may also find developmental dictatorships of the sort that flourished in places like Brazil, Spain, South Korea, and Taiwan a few decades ago.

In 2009 Der Spiegel published an article which found half of East Germans were sympathetic to the former communist dictatorship.

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 script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

Hartley's answer to Y2K and George Orwell respectively, the former finds a conflicted contemporary Jesus (Martin Donovan) returned to earth via JFK airport to finesse the details of the impending apocalypse, while the latter unfolds in a dystopian consumerist dictatorship that deems private pleasure perverse.

Amanda was smart and verbal enough to tease at will, which earned her a fear - induced popularity found in elementary schools and fascist dictatorships.

She presents a collection of reconstructed and found objects informed by the individual stories of Republican exiles that fled Spain during the mass exodus in 1939 and first - hand accounts of those that remained during Franco's 36 - year dictatorship.

All three had solo exhibitions at the Lyceum women's club gallery, a key venue of the Cuban vanguard since its founding in 1928, and a site of prior vanguard resistance to political dictatorship.

In a small black box theatre, Anri Sala's Intervista (Finding the Words)(1998)-- a tender video portrait of the artist's mother, and her growing pessimism towards the Albanian Communist dictatorship — has been thoughtfully paired with a photographic slideshow of a low - pressure fountain that Belgian studio 51N4E installed in a public square in TiranIn a small black box theatre, Anri Sala's Intervista (Finding the Words)(1998)-- a tender video portrait of the artist's mother, and her growing pessimism towards the Albanian Communist dictatorship — has been thoughtfully paired with a photographic slideshow of a low - pressure fountain that Belgian studio 51N4E installed in a public square in Tiranin a public square in Tiranin Tirana.

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

a) start off by making a hypothesis concerning the color of crows and how this impacts their habits b) based on the hypothesis, create model scenarios to simulate the color and behavior of crows c) investigate fossil remains of pre-historic Archaeopteryx d) declare that the paleo - avain findings check closely with the model e) validate the model scenarios by comparing them with one another f) declare that the hypothesis has been confirmed by the model simulations g) project that (if unabated by exorbitantly costly measures involving major payments to dictatorships in the developing world) black crows will destroy all other species plus our planet by 2100 h) ensure that «crow disaster scenario» is conveyed to public by a doomsday - hungry» media