Sentences with phrase «in authoritarian states»

«So Trump is not a «despot,» but I call him a «despot's apprentice» because he's borrowing and mimicking tactics that you normally see in authoritarian states.

Not exact matches

An avowed socialist, though in his own words not of the «authoritarian communist» kind, Sanders is so far the only Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raquIn the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raquin infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.»

People are free to worship as they please in a true Islamic state but there are none today, just a bunch claiming to be so while running authoritarian regimes.

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

A successful conclusion to this debate may result in a substantive resistance to the Obama / Democrat regime, which is working tirelessly to render the United States a third world country operating under an authoritarian government.

We need to recognise we have a different electorate and to recognise we became too authoritarian in the way we thought about the state, too casual in the way we thought about the state.

There is a sense in which the two economic systems [free market capitalism versus state - driven capitalism] are ideological opponents; there is discussion of whether the authoritarian economic model is better able than the United States» to deliver positive outcomes.

Many worry that authoritarian politicians are using the heightened state of alarm to smuggle in draconian new pieces of legislation, not least on media freedom - although on that matter the media handed politicians most of the weapons they would need to challenge them due to their catastrophic mishandling of events following the Charlie Hebdo attack.

She specialises in Chinese and Russian politics and state - media relations under authoritarian rule.

Subsequent history has seen a «revenge of history», as powerful authoritarian states play an increasing role in the trade game, but refuse to play by the same rules.

The Pakistani state's organic linkages with the American establishment have been a vital pillar of support to authoritarian regimes and it remains to be seen whether the recent coldness between the two countries has resulted in any kind of weakening in these links.

In real life, with Russia being an authoritarian state, there are ways to thwart an observer.

I agree that the state is much too authoritarian almost resembling the situation in the old Eastern block countries, especially now that the role of the police has become politicised and for an open democracy to exist this needs to be addressed.

The social policy approach may be fruitful in studying other authoritarian regimes, as it provides a window into often invisible complex relationships between the state and non-state actors.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

In competitive authoritarian states there is a risk that when co-option becomes less tenable coercion can increase.

The dominant parties in southern Africa maintain their hold on power through a mix of co-option and coercion and are not unlike their counterparts in other competitive authoritarian states such as Mexico, Argentina and Russia.

If one were to ascribe these failings to any particular form of government, I would personally attribute them to the authoritarian underpinnings of the states in question, not their goals of communism.

But what Clegg's transformation from civil libertarian to state authoritarian really shows us is just how far being in government can change you.

Is it unreasonable to see in this the possible beginnings of an authoritarian surveillance state?

In November alone, prime minister David Cameron visited the authoritarian leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a salesman for BAE Systems» Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, while the Emir of Kuwait has been treated to a state banquet at Windsor Castle at which another guest was BAE's chair, Dick Olver.

If one takes your cynical argument to the extreme, we might as well install an actual authoritarian dictatorship in the State since that way we have less people on the public through....

It would be consistent with the liberal tradition of the United States and less so in Europe where the right had authoritarian origins as being in favour of monarchy.

Authoritarian states like to tweak their technical infrastructure, their national laws and their firewalls to «protect sovereignty in cyberspace», as they like to say — which in practice means protecting intellectual property thieves from foreign pressure and rounding up dissidents at home.

Some nations, including Brazil and Germany, are considering reining in internet routing to within their own borders, although such moves would play into the hands of authoritarian states and cause delays for international traffic.

Eva Green and Ed Skrein are among the stars in place for sci - fi thriller A Patriot, which is set to depict an authoritarian state separated from a world in chaos due to climate change and scarce resources.

In Berlin, there is a major shift, as the overpowering nature of that authoritarian state becomes clearer and clearer.

Office drone Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) dreams of escaping his dreary life in an authoritarian police state filled with propaganda and terrorist attacks, but the never - ending stream of forms and paperwork — among other things — is keeping him down.

Neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian, we can only hope that the competitive authoritarian regime will prove useful as a warning to all states in transition about the pitfalls found on the road to democracy, yet given the alarming number of flawed elections we have seen in 2013, this may only be wishful thinking.

Having been born and bred in China, Zhao seems to have a visceral feel for authoritarian government, an oppressive state, and the nature of stifling homogeneity.

Thanks to the anti-local control, authoritarian policies being pushed by Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and their Commissioner of Education, the Connecticut State Department of Education summoned a group of local school administrators to a «roundtable discussion on family and community engagement strategies» on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 3:00 — 4:30 at the State Office Building in Hartford.

With the help of exhaustive evidence from multifarious sources, Dawisha argues that Putin and his KGB cronies, terrified by the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, did everything in their power to restore the authoritarian state.

Communism: A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian government party controls state - owned means of production.

In his 2007 best - selling book Become the Pack Leader, Cesar Millan (of the popular Dog Whisperer TV series) states, «We've gone from the old - fashioned authoritarian extreme — where animals existed only to do our bidding — to another unhealthy extreme — where animals are considered our equal partners in every area of our lives.&raquIn his 2007 best - selling book Become the Pack Leader, Cesar Millan (of the popular Dog Whisperer TV series) states, «We've gone from the old - fashioned authoritarian extreme — where animals existed only to do our bidding — to another unhealthy extreme — where animals are considered our equal partners in every area of our lives.&raquin every area of our lives.»

«Money to Burn» is one of more than ten videos in this diverse collection of work interrogating what the organizers of the exhibition, Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler, call «our present day circumstances of unrelenting economic crisis, authoritarian drift and rapidly failing states.»

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show at Greene Naftali, Peter Halley contends with the new American reality of an increasingly shameless and authoritarian state under which, despite the best efforts of an overstretched free press and an embattled political opposition, the difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly obscured.

Aside from the enormous differences between Cuba and Myanmar in population, the nature of low - lying and flooded villages and terrain, the force of the cyclone, etc., please be aware that Myanmar is an ally of Socialist / Communist China and is an authoritarian state.

Every other type of State that has tried the authoritarian approach has failed dismally and in the process has created death, destruction and disproportionate damage to the local environment,

Even authoritarian states like Russia and China have generally agreed with global warming alarmism... despite making no real improvements in decarbonization... which is somewhat astounding given their anti-western bias.

With Donald Trump about to become the next President of the United States; with the United Kingdom getting ready to indulge in self - harm with a hard exit from the European Union; as European electorates consider voting for racists and authoritarians; and as the dreadful tragedy in Syria unfolds: it does really seem that the world's whole sap is sunk.

But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good, like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.

The dark irony here is that, while very general risk - induced doubts in the benevolence of the promises of governments to protect their citizens lead to criticisms of the inefficiency of scholarly and state authorities, critics are blind to the possibilities of erecting (or expanding) the authoritarian state on this very inefficiency... Central, however, are not, as with Huntington, traditional religiously grounded «civilizations», but opposing risk belief religions.

Authors were inspired by the Guimarães CineClube, founded in 1953 during the authoritarian Portuguese regime Estado Novo and devoted to distributing international films that conflicted with the reigning right - wing ideology, states a press release published at Dezeen.

P - 2 I also disagree with - no creature as died from «global warming» - creatures can die from hot weather, but far more die from cold weather - many birds flee cold weather I merely wanted to point out an obvious problem of this lefty religion - which can be stated more simply as no else wants to live in a authoritarian police state.

Where the conditions of the eighteenth century in pre - and post-revolutionary France and in what is now the United States currently exist — in Iran, China, Russia, and other authoritarian regimes — it may well be the path of prudence to act anonymously if one can, but those conditions do not apply in Canada, the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world.

Not that it is always easy to decide when anonymity is appropriate in the given case; for example, when it is used to post hate comments in response to what is viewed as the authoritarian government of the United States, is this the kind of political speech that should be protected through allowing anonymity?