Sentences with phrase «many authoritarian regimes»

Most of the countries populating the top of this ranking are under authoritarian regimes where corruption is rampant.

A House Republican introduced legislation last week to bar the U.S. from importing petroleum products from Venezuela in a push to cripple the growing authoritarian regime in the South American country.

Meanwhile, North Korea, Syria, Chad and the Central African Republic were among the EIU's authoritarian regimes.

Nations are then classified under four types of governments: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime.

State propaganda and censorship by authoritarian regimes remains the biggest threat to a free press.

The path there has taken egregious measures, not to mention a level of opacity very few decision - makers outside of authoritarian regimes can get away with.

Moreover, the Russian government - known to be an authoritarian regime - has been quite liberal when it comes to this technology.

Cybersecurity firm FireEye warned recently that North Korean hackers are stepping up their attempts to steal bitcoin in order to support Kim Jong Un's authoritarian regime.

Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.

It would nevertheless be risky to conclude that only authoritarian regimes can impose neo-liberal policies in Latin America.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

The Iraqi people were punished for the actions of an authoritarian regime over which they had no control.

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.

But then, organized religion is all about power and control and as an authoritarian regime we should expect that they would find questions about their legitimacy dangerous.

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.

Last week's ruling in Obergefell took up a lot of attention, but I've been meaning to link a couple of good articles about Mideast Christians, specifically, their relationship with authoritarian regimes.

As the world looked on in awe at the protests in Egypt that led to the ouster of the authoritarian regime, a far more profound revolution took place away from television cameras.

Science, which would ultimately have to be shackled in a traditional authoritarian regime, would continue to be pursued in the revolutionary culture but it would not be idolized as in the liberal model.

He makes a compelling case that politics without God results in either authoritarian regimes (such as those we have recently seen disintegrate all around us) or in chaotic regimes (which Western democracies must be ever vigilant to avoid).

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

You go on about how human rights are abused «by atheists,» where you live, but ironically most Western atheists strongly disapprove of the kinds of authoritarian regimes that do that.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

Authoritarian regimes hold elections for a variety of reasons.

It is particularly difficult to build a democracy because, in contrast to an authoritarian regime, democracies depend on widespread support and compliance.

China is either the greatest success story in lifting its population from abject poverty, or simply an authoritarian regime.

But unless we are all vigilant, whether we face democratic or authoritarian regimes, in demanding our right to that free expression, our digital world risks being a partially censored, monitored and fragmented one.

And how contemptible for the British state to have reduced itself to the level of an authoritarian regime, without even a recent terrorist attack to excuse it.

Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

Rebukes from authoritarian regimes such as China, which have previously been criticised by Britain for implementing similar policies, will have been particularly difficult for ministers to read.

(There might be other analogies from authoritarian regimes - eg Dubcek / Nagy in Poland / Hungary, or reformers in the pre-Gorbachev USSR or China now.

Such surveillance echoes the very worst of authoritarian regimes and thought police.

Power, in short, is addictive and even more so in authoritarian regimes, where there are few institutional mechanisms to prevent abuses.

Her research analyses opposition strategies in electoral authoritarian regimes in Mexico and Venezuela.

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.

The discussant, Harry Verhoeven, suggested that there is a positive relationship between the two, and Sudan is trying to be a more responsible authoritarian regime.

The administration defended President Trump's idea for a national military parade, as some former military officials likened the proposed parade to affairs held by authoritarian regimes and some lawmakers questioned the costs that might be involved.

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.

Fraga believed that although Franco remained popular, his authoritarian regime would ultimately crumble in the face of international pressure and the economic growth and transformations witnessed during the 1960s and 1970s.

Many of them oppose the restoration of the authoritarian regime and fear that President Sisi is but a contemporary pharaoh.

Why did authoritarian regimes need to do this?

In authoritarian regimes, leaders can exercise power to virtually unlimited extents, which can lead to reckless and gruesome actions on their parts.

Six years after the impressive civil uprising that demanded «the overthrow of the regime,» Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el - Sisi allegedly reflects the complete return of the authoritarian regime.

Why do so many authoritarian regimes bother with voter fraud and ballot stuffing?

More discussion on comparative governance in authoritarian regimes would have enhanced the discussion.

Do authoritarian regimes typically have weak control over the vote counting people?

The 2016 Democracy Index classifies Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine as «hybrid regimes», Tunisia as a «flawed democracy» and all other Arab states as «authoritarian regimes».

+1 for showing that authoritarian regimes could be expected to be the norm, rather than the exception.

A relatively authoritarian regime in Turkey which has acted brutally against civilians in its own territory with significant military presence in Eastern Turkey.

I believe you're describing some sort of authoritarian regime that restricts land ownership based upon square footage or utilization capability?