Sentences with phrase «military regime of»

The president also took a swipe at the military regime of his opponent in the 2015 presidential election, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari for the crating of Alhaji Umaru Dikko in 1984.

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.

It examines the factors that shaped artistic activity in the social democracies of Europe, the military regimes of Latin America, and Japan in the aftermath of U.S. occupation.

Not exact matches

«Some villages and points on the western side of the town of Al - Areima have been handed over to the border guards of the Syrian regime,» Manbij Military Council spokesman Sherfan Darwish told AFP.

The Manbij Military Council, part of the Kurdish - Arab SDF, first announced the handover last week, marking the first time that US - supported fighters had proposed ceding territory to regime forces.

«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

The outside world needs to apply a different kind of pressure: a diplomatic and economic push for regime - led reforms, commercial investment, and reduced military spending.

Although the US military, Secretary of State Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis all say unequivocally that the US does not want or train for regime - change missions in North Korea, the president and the military have to do what's best for the country at any cost.

Putin claimed that while the Syrian regime was «fully abiding» by the cease - fire, rebel groups (some of which the US backs) were using it merely as an opportunity to regroup, and he accused Washington of being more concerned with retaining its military capacity in the area than with trying to weed out the extremist rebel groups from the more «moderate» ones.

He said the latest and toughest sanctions resolutions against North Korea «are working, having an effect on the situation... on the capacity of the regime to obtain hard currency because to go along with the military programs or missile or nuclear (programs) you need money, and that's the objective.»

He has consolidated control of the country's institutions, enjoys military support, and has effectively divided and demoralized the opposition, leaving it with no capacity to force regime change.»

He sought congressional approval for military intervention in Syria, which he was not likely to get, and eventually brokered a deal with Russia that saw Assad agreeing to destroy most of the regime's arsenal of chemical weapons.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

In leftist and Soviet - allied regimes around the world, dictators would send their militaries into major public areas in ostentatious shows of authority and force.

The regime has used a combination of a fierce military onslaught and two negotiated withdrawals to empty out 95 percent of the enclave near Damascus, but rebels are still entrenched in its largest town of Douma.

There was some irony in these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorships.

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.

One of Syria's main factions (the Assad regime) is partnered with the Russian military.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

A military attack that is not decisive opens the possibility that the US will have committed an act of war against the Syrian regime without actually securing victory.

«Hundreds of Saudis have rallied in the eastern city of Qatif to blast the regime for its military intervention in #Bahrain.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

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.

The Pax Americanists are determined to establish a major American military presence in the Middle East: they dream of toppling nearly every regime in that region.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

Kaplan goes very near the heart of the matter when he says: «The real question is not whether the American military can topple Saddam's regime but whether the American public has the stomach for imperial involvement of a kind we have not known since the United States occupied Germany and Japan.»

In his scenario, the country fell under a military dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»).

Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops.

Many of them do not understand that the threat of catastrophic judgment is brought on by their nation as nation and by its vested interests: neglect of the least privileged in this country and beyond, economic exploitation, popular media saturated in violence, the support of repressive client regimes, military buildup and the corporate destruction of the environment.

For example, religious conservatism during the 1980s may have grown partly through reinforcement from a regime that championed a strong military defense, the protection of domestic markets through low taxes and limited social services, and the values of small - town America, even though this same administration was also firmly committed to free trade and international markets.

He came to power in June 2014, after the revolution of Egypt's people against former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, calling on the military for the termination of the devastating tenure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime.

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

That strikes me as more of an argument for a military operation designed to bring down the Assad regime as quickly as possible rather than the «targeted» strikes that Kerry admitted Assad would weather.

When liberation theology first appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most of the regimes in Latin America were military dictatorships.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Though Washington has obtained the support of the ruling regimes, including some inside the former Soviet Union, virtually all the bases are in countries where an American military presence stirs resentment among Islamic extremists.

Upon retiring from performing with companies spanning three continents, he utilized his art training, military background and ballet regime into the discipline of pastry arts.

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

One may argue that Gen. Acheampong lost his focus and wanted to elongate his regime with the change of name from the National Redemption Council to Supreme Military Council.

On the other hand, the Assad regime does not appear to have involved its own military forces in this strike by Iran on Israeli forces, or in many of the other actions taken by Iran supported forces against Israel.

The introduction of the Supreme Military Council (SMC1) by Gen. Acheampong on October 9, 1975 to July 5, 1978 regime also brought into focus the Union Government agenda.

The U.S. does not recognize the annexation of the Golan Heights by Israel as legal, but also does not accept that military action to restore that territory to Syria (let alone a Syrian regime that it does not recognize as the legitimate government of Syria) is legitimate or justified.

The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ironically enough, the issue of «nuclear security» should be viewed as a consequence of the failure of the existing nuclear regime, proven to be incapable of controlling either the illicit transfer of nuclear technology or preventing the military use of nuclear material intended for peaceful purposes.

In fact, military or quasi-military rules, including Zia and Musharraf regimes, proved relatively more stable internally as well as in terms of the country's ties with the United States.

Allies of al - Assad's regime rallied around the Syrian strongman and pledged to respond to US «aggression» after the Trump administration bombed a military airfield in retaliation for a poisonous gas attack.

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.

«We do not seek a regime change, we do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th Parallel -LSB-...] We are trying to convey to the North Koreans: «We are not your enemy, we are not your threat.

The main aim of the mission has been accomplished, the rebels no longer pose a direct military threat to the survival of the Assad regime and the gains made against the rebels are solid enough to be maintained by the Syrian army itself.