Sentences with phrase «from military rule»

«Acting President Osinbajo recalls how in 1999 General Abubakar successfully chaperoned the democratic transition from military rule in Nigeria, and commends his determination and forthright resolve that ended 16 years of military dictatorship», it reads.

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The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

The exercise was reported in Taiwanese media this week, which speculated it could have been a warning from the United States to China following China's stepped up military presence around Taiwan, the self - ruled island Beijing claims as its own.

Kelly Johnson's 14 rules about how to manage a disruptive project described how to remove a small innovative team from the politics, policies, procedures and processes a large company had built to support execution of its core business (and its military customers had developed to procure large numbers of standard aircraft.)

There are currently no federal labour rules about drug and alcohol testing outside the military and successive governments from the late 1980s have stayed away from the issue.

YANGON, May 3 Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey published to mark World Press Freedom Day on Thursday.

Popular support abroad is developing to back governments creating a set of rules able to prevent U.S. exporters from benefiting from a currency instability caused by America's own fiscal, financial and military policies.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Here particularly the development of an ideology of public Confucianism helped to bureaucratize the samurai — turn them from private military henchmen into public servants — and to bring the common people actively into the Tokugawa consensus through the idea of benevolent rule (jinsei).

If it had, Nigerians would have been saved the trauma of the most vicious strain of military rule, spanning 1984 to 1999, not discounting the diarchy from January 1992 to November 1993, during which the freest election in Nigerian history was annulled.

Fernando Mathei, Evelyn's father, was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, while Alberto Bachelet, Michelle's father, opposed 1973 coup and was imprisoned and tortured for several months until his death in 1974 at the hands of the dictatorship.

After gorging silly, from the ceaseless milk of the civil order, the prodigal, in cloud seven, now dreams military rule!

«We strongly belief that President Buhari, must be seen to be acting contrary to court decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assembly.

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

It is from such free - for - all decadence that an Ekweremadu would practically call for military rule, in the very hallowed chambers of the Senate!

That is why IOCs continued to invest in Nigeria throughout our years under military rule and why there are still global companies taking mineral resources from D.R Congo, Iraq and Libya in spite of war and instability!

Rawlings went on to rule as a military head of state from December 31, 1981 until 1992 when the PNDC metamorphosed into the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Such opposition is mainly from the North whose sons were the military leaders of Nigeria who ruled and ruined post-1966 Nigeria.

Rep. Mark Kirk was counseled by the military twice for violating rules that bar members of the armed services from partisan political activities.

The APC attracted heavyweight defectors from Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP), which has dominated the political scene since the end of military rule in 1999.

He's apologized for mischaracterizing portions of his 21 - year military career, and the Pentagon confirms that the candidate was counseled by the military twice in the last two years for violating rules that bar members of the armed services from partisan political activities.

Reacting to President Buhari's order for the 18 serving and retired military chiefs to appear before the EFCC from Monday, Fayose through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the military officers ought to have been probed in accordance with the armed forces rules of engagement.

In related news, a response from the Department of Justice on the ruling by Judge Virginia Phillips which overturned the military's DADT policy and the injunction filing from the Log Cabin Republicans is due any time now.

He disclosed that during the era of military rule, the growth of the Nigerian Police was stunted which affected the force badly pointing out that the idea of building barracks for policemen apart of huge cost of maintenance, kept the police far from the citizenry.

«For avoidance of doubt, the military will not be distracted from performing its statutory duties in accordance with the rules of engagement.

It reads in part: «In compliance with Gods order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it... to liberate the al - Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque (Mecca) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.»

Whether you reach for a checked puffer from Zara or a military - inspired winter coat from Olivia Palermo's Banana Republic collab, there's one golden rule to live by: a good coat is like a good relationship — it needs breathing room.

He tries to school Will in the ways of maintaining emotional distance from the grieving relatives, tries sharing with him his profound respect for the rules and regulations of military life and subtly tries to persuade him to stay in the army after his time is up.

In «Black Panther,» actor Chadwick Boseman plays the new Black Panther T'Challa, who is the heir apparent to rule Wakanda, a technologically superior nation in Africa that deliberately hides its medical and military advancements from the rest of the world.

13 Days (Roger Donaldson) Rules of Engagement (William Friedkin) The Patriot (Roland Emmerich) Or American Psychosis: a hokily exciting re-creation of the Cuban missile crisis as Clintonian mettle - test (JFK's Bill, Bobby's Stephanopoulos, O'Donnell's Al Gore); a noxious Giulianian concoction with a slippery POV that cheats on an absurd «moral dilemma» (whether or not to slaughter a crowd of Yemenites); another cultural hash from Emmerich, who recasts the British in the mold of his homeland's military circa 1940.

The Rochester, N.Y., school board violated state education law last December when it barred military recruiters from its campuses because of the armed forces» ban on homosexuals, a state court has ruled.

It changed from nearly seven hundred years of military rule by the samurai classes back to Imperial rule and embarked on a mad dash toward industrialization.

This final rule extends the period of time for applying for a skills test waiver from 90 days to one year after leaving a military position requiring the operation of a CMV.

This final rule also allows a state to accept applications from active duty military personnel who are stationed in that state and to administer the written and skills tests for a CLP or CDL.

About 50 years before Akhenaten's reign, the people living in the area that is now Armenia, who were ruled by the Hittites (from modern day Anatolia in Turkey), discovered the process for making iron, giving the Hittites a military advantage.

There is no single definition of a veteran for insurance purposes, and there's no set legal rule for who is eligible for a military benefit or discount from a particular insurance company; every provider decides its own rules.

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Top Things To Do in Myanmar: Tourist Attractions and Itinerary Ideas is a guest post by fellow travel blogger Maria Laborde from LatinAbroad.com Under iron - fist military rule for almost 50 years, Myanmar opened up to significant democratic reforms between 2011 and 2012.

We didn't originally make plans to visit Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)-- the large, mysterious country sandwiched between India, China, and Thailand that has been under military rule for the past half century and effectively shut off from the rest of the world.

From the details provided by Paradox Interactive, Stellaris: Apocalypse looks to add more military - style content to the game such as new rules, units, and an AI - controlled faction known as Marauders.

Upon finding out that an unreleased film denouncing the Greek military junta who ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 had been shot by the blacklisted, American filmmaker Jules Dassin in 1974 in what is now The Kitchen's gallery space, Curator Matthew Lyons invited Courtesy the Artists, Discoteca Flaming Star, and Georgia Sagri to revisit the themes and structures of the original film.

In the time of Japan's last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed «pleasure quarters,» where courtesans practiced prostitution and geishas entertained men by serving tea and food, dancing, performing music or chatting amiably.

From the struggle for independence from British rule leading to the formation of an independent country in 1960, to the military events of 1974 and its associated post-war trauma, the exhibition points to the unavoidable influence inspired by political circumstances that has altered and formed the course of modern Cypriot histFrom the struggle for independence from British rule leading to the formation of an independent country in 1960, to the military events of 1974 and its associated post-war trauma, the exhibition points to the unavoidable influence inspired by political circumstances that has altered and formed the course of modern Cypriot histfrom British rule leading to the formation of an independent country in 1960, to the military events of 1974 and its associated post-war trauma, the exhibition points to the unavoidable influence inspired by political circumstances that has altered and formed the course of modern Cypriot history.

From 1972 until the early 1990s, a military dictatorship under the rule of Augusto Pinochet plunged Chile into total darkness and silence.

Such declarations from the «government» of Burma — truly a brutal ruling military junta — are clearly not to be trusted.

A federal judge in Denver ruled last week that the «Stolen Valor Act,» which prohibits people from falsely claiming they have been awarded military decorations and medals, is «facially unconstitutional.»

The legal system is theoretically based on the common law, inherited from the UK after independence in 1948; however this has been eroded as a result of military rule.

Even though members of Congress have urged the administration to get input from military lawyers in writing the new rules, the Justice Department is drafting them on its own, with virtually no input from the JAGs.

The WWII era conscious objector cases held that the CO exception to military service is not limited to governmentally - approved religions, but as a general rule, the courts have not ruled that you can simply claim to have a religious belief which is being infringed on and thereby be excempt from the law.