Sentences with phrase «military regime»

The extraction of natural resources — for the benefit of neighboring countries and at the expense of local communities — became the hallmark of the ruling military regime for many years.

The country already has partnered with 60 countries, many of which are authoritarian and corrupt military regimes.

Military regimes do not like that kind of religious dedication.

The Egyptian military regime is held under the arms by American aid.

It was not about which military regime was better or more moral than the other.

The country, which is controlled by a brutal military regime, has nonetheless decided to created the largest tiger sanctuary in the world.

Together with notable scholars like Kole Omotosho, Biodun Jeyifo, Wole Soyinka, Mr. Ogunbiyi was part of the Drama and Literature Department of the University of Ife, later renamed Obafemi Awolowo University by military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Tens of thousands of students and then doctors, monks, and ordinary Burmese took to the streets, demanding an end to the repressive military regime led by Ne Win.

He offers a five - stage history of post-World War II American foreign policy, explaining the rationale for U.S. support of repressive military regimes, the shift toward advancing empire through globalized capitalist expansion, and the current drive for global military supremacy.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy will lead a Commonwealth mission to Pakistan to press the new military regime for a firm timetable for restoring democracy.

In Eritrea, an oppressive military regime and a lifeless economy force several thousand to walk across its land borders every month.

Widespread ignorance, poverty, sectarianism, violence, non democratic culture & values, human especially women rights violations and social backwardness of the region of Southern Punjab because of the feudalism and constant military regimes only provided extra impetus to this group of youth.

Guatemala's Catholic Church suffered severe persecution under a succession of military regimes because of its defense of human rights.

For more than 40 years, this army has been fighting Myanmar's Buddhist - friendly military regime, which, according to Operation World, is seeking to marginalize or even eliminate Christianity.

One can have a fascist, oppressive, security and military regime whilst simultaneously being secular.

On Feb. 13, Wolde, the 1968 Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia who has been in prison in Addis Ababa for five years (SI, Dec. 4, 1995), was at last charged, along with some 1,200 other officials from his country's deposed military regime, for crimes allegedly committed more than 20 years ago.

Bakin Zuwo, of course, echoes a parallel in 1984, after the Buhari military regime had overthrown the Shehu Shagari 2nd Republic presidency (1979 - 1983).

Arguably, one of the better cases of left wing suppression of a right wing minority's voting rights is in Burma, where the right wing military regime was replaced by a democratically elected regime led by its long time, Nobel Peace Prize winning, leader who was an opposition leader for decades.

And this was the plan the rebel military regime scrapped as soon as they usurped power.»

He served with distinction in the First Republic, the Second Military regime, as well as the Second Republic, without him being tainted with the remotest hint of scandal.

Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.

Released last December, it is set in Japan's Edo period (aka the Tokugawa period) when Japan was controlled by its feudal military regime for over 250 years.

Camnitzer responded in great part to the growing wave of Latin American military regimes taking root in the late»60s, but his work also points to the dynamic political landscape of his adopted country, the United States.

Canada has condemned the coup in Pakistan and will not recognize the new military regime.

At a time when Marxist guerrillas were pitted against an authoritarian military regime, Romero sought a peaceful solution.

«Poverty in Africa» is mentioned occasionally, and for the better informed, an oppressive military regime and indefinite conscription in Eritrea are to blame.

Born in Buenos Aires, Roth lived in Spain during Argentina's 1970s - early -»80s repressive military regime.

Thus, as the Swiss scholar Thorward Lorenzen has pointed out, «there is a higher rate of torture in socialist countries and in countries controlled by a dictatorship or a military regime» than elsewhere (quoted in «Packet one,» American Christians for the Abolition of Torture).

This man was stripped naked, humiliated, mocked and tortured to death at the hands of a military regime in collusion with corrupt religious authorities.

The church often supports oppressive political and military regimes, thus turning Christ's suffering into a destructive reality, a civil religion supportive only of the rich and powerful.

Boyd believes the DKBA general offered the army troops part of the bribe to dissuade the military regime's general.

It is a fascist, oppressive, security and military regime.

But from 1981, during the military regime's «opening,» it also began a cautious ecumenical opening, besides investing heavily in theological education and accepting theological pluralism in the seminaries.

Dangote enjoyed GON favoritism in the form of importing rights throughout the military regimes and coups of the 1980s and 90s.

How military personnel learn to shoot or engage in close combat, and how that physical training is connected in a military regime with what we can think of as ideological education, has been the subject of close study, as have other regimes, disciplines, practices and settings such as sword fighting, or gang membership.

American or Chinese involvement may spark such paradigm policy shift in Pakistan, yet the track record shows both countries favouring cooperation with military regimes.

President Buhari was a minister under his military regime, so president Buhari will never join issues with him.»

Momoh, born on April 27, 1939 in Auchi, Edo, served as Minister of Information and Culture between 1986 and 1990, during the military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

By Bashir Adefaka Igwe Ezeoba Alex Nwokedi, a former Press Secretary to the Head of State during President Olusegun Obasanjo's military regime...

«This is a man who has lived in this country, has been active politically even the military regime nobody killed him, why would anybody wants to take his life at this old age.

Many Democratic States are not designed or created by «the People», they are often created by a monarch or a colonial power or a military regime.

This is not a military regime where a Head of State can sit down and tell a panel to jail someone for 88 years.

He recalled with pain how the state, under the military regime in 1975, «forcibly» took over 106 Catholic primary schools with seven secondary schools and one technical school without compensation, adding that the new tax was unnecessary, more so that new schools established by the Church had been paying various levies and taxes demanded by both local and state governments.

If you choose correct leadership, there won't be any need for the military regime.

In 1979, the military regime led by J.J Rawlings sentenced Henry Djaba to 10 years in prison in his absence.

In a military regime, the three arms of government — comprising the legislature, the executive and the judiciary — are fused in one individual.