Sentences with phrase «nationalist government»

Due to international sanctions attributable to the then ruling Nationalist Government's apartheid policies, South Africa was subject to stringent international sanctions, inflation was running at 20 to 30 percent and interest rates were more than 20 percent!

Liu Kuo - sung was born in 1932 in Anhui, China, followed the Nationalist government from China to Taiwan in 1949, and graduated from the Fine Arts Department in Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1956.

At that time Verwoerd was minister of education in the Nationalist government and his view was that as blacks were never going to be allowed to compete economically with whites, their education need fit them only for menial jobs.

Robin Harper, Green party co-convener, said the party has enjoyed «positive» talks with the SNP after agreeing to support a nationalist government.

However, they stuck to their political principles, condemned though this attitude was by the rest of the delegations, and refused to «recognize the existence» of China's Nationalist government by playing its team.

But a breakup plan will not pass muster with a new nationalist government.

The French company may also have to contend with a more nationalist government.

Modi's nationalist government has reversed course on its relationship with Beijing apparently after realizing its hard line on China was not working.

Not exact matches

Orban's nationalist - conservative government has not won many friends in Brussels with this hardline approach to immigration.

It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.

But at the present stage of European integration, it may be difficult for any European government to put into legislation many of the sentiments espoused by nationalist parties, such as immigration reform, opposition to economic integration or the protection of what they see as their national culture.

It soon became clear, however, that implementing the various recommendations and agreements was being opposed by conservatives in the KMT, who feared these measures would dilute their party's control of the government, and by Nationalist generals, who objected to reducing the size of their armies.

Mr. Axworthy said «I want to underline this concern that the situation in the sub-Indian continent — the re-election of the Indian government which is very nationalist in its position that has pursued a very...

Germany will also be prepping for the 2017 general elections, and the influence of a growing nationalist sentiment will weigh on the government's agenda.

While nationalist outcries can be useful to a government sending messages to countries with which it has maritime boundary or other differences, nationalism can limit the freedom of leaders to curb tensions and seek accommodation later.

So the best you can come up with is a protest of the squelching of religious freedoms by a government that supports pedophiles, and the narration of a ultra-socialist nationalist?

This appears to count against a shift from nationalism to economism, but in fact, just as in the nationalist epoch church institutions were justified by their contribution to the nation, now government institutions are justified by their service to the economy.

The party that he founded — the Republican Nationalist Alliance, or ARENA — now controls all branches of government: the presidency, the legislature and the courts.

1958: The merger of Syria and Egypt into the «United Arab Republic,» the overthrow of the pro-U.S. King Feisal II in Iraq by nationalist military officers, and the outbreak of anti - government / anti-U.

In fact, despite the undisguised Hindu nationalist bent of the government, Pew rates India's social hostilities against religion as more intense than government restrictions.

Despite the fact that the nationalist faith becomes obviously dominant only in times of sudden or continued political crisis, it has had constant and growing influence in the West, affecting particularly government and education.

Nationalist sentiment has supported the French government against other governments.

Netanyahu was prevented from assembling a narrow right - religious coalition by an impromptu alliance between the nationalist - religious Jewish Home and secular - liberal Yesh Atid, which declared that either they would both serve in government or would sit in opposition together; and the unlikely bromance of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid also forced the PM's hand.

But when Chi Minh visited the nationalist Chinese government in the 1940s to gain support for his struggle against French colonialists, he was imprisoned for 18 months, famously writing Notebook from Prison.

Could they generate enough heat against a Labour government backed by the nationalists to make such a prospect untenable?

The Scottish nationalists have been left gnashing their teeth as they contemplated a # 1.1 billion NHS bill left to them by the Labour government.

With the rising Ukrainian nationalism and the increasingly more and more visible loss of control of the central government over the country (in the recent trade blockade of Donbass by Ukrainian nationalists, president Poroshenko protested the blockade but was unable to force its lifting), it is possible that Ukrainian military will take more forceful action against Donbass and Luhansk, which may force Russia's hand, so not all risk of war is beyond us.

Instead, Moscow has provided Azerbaijan with just enough arms supplies for Aliyev to win small, tactical victories that rally Azerbaijani nationalists around his government.

The Prime Minister will have to decide whether she is willing to risk a second independence referendum which, if it goes in the nationalists» favour, would end her time at the head of the UK Government or whether making the Scottish Parliament more muscular might be a more prudent course of action.

«Chief Obafemi Awolowo is one of the nation's nationalists, in which the Lagos State Government believes in his ideologies, policies and programme and as such will consider nothing too much to propagate his ideologies,» she said.

«This would be the first time in our history that a group of nationalists from one part of our country would be involved in altering the direction of the government of our country and I think that is a frightening prospect,» he said.

Can the Iranian nationalists be convinced to not make a serious deal out of the US withdrawal and not convince the Iranian government to cancel the agreement from their side?

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

From the 1870s onwards, the Tories were a grosso modo anti-collectivist, «small government», nationalist, free market Party with a residual concern for One Nation Disraelian social conscience.

In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

That led to a frenzy of meaningless Westminster reporting about whether Ed Miliband would rule out going into government with the nationalists.

The UK government should not intervene on the basis of arguments about damage to the Scottish economy, or which date is most favourable to the Unionist or nationalist cause.

It seems unlikely that Labour would enter into any kind of formal agreement that allowed SNP MPs to become ministers or play a direct role in the management of government departments — indeed, Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the Scottish nationalists.

The removal of sanctions on Moscow's terms would be a major diplomatic victory for Putin that would rally nationalist sentiments around his government for years to come.

The Russian government's strident anti-NATO rhetoric has rallied anti-Western nationalists around Putin's rule.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

By demonstrating Russia's ability to project military power on the world stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rallied nationalist sentiments around his government.

The creation of a globalized Russian military combined with Moscow's extra-regional power projection in Syria has increased public perceptions of Russia as a great power and rallied Russian nationalists around Putin's government.

They're in a somewhat better position, in that the SNP won't necessarily oppose them out of hand, but the fact they won't bring the nationalists into a formal coalition that an Ed Miliband government is a minority administration by default.

Plaid Cymru members are hoping their new leader will give nationalists a boost at the polls, as the party launches its local government elections campaign.

By 2007 nationalists had become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, and by 2011 they had an overall majority: no mean achievement in a proportional representation system intended to produce minority or coalition government.

Jeremy Corbyn now has a chance to build up support among voters who are growing increasingly uneasy over the authoritarian - nationalist direction of government policy.

In the late 1970s, his opposition to his government's part - principled, part - desperate legislative courting of nationalist support in the Commons was based on a straightforward political principle which Enoch Powell ensured should become known after Dalyell's constituency: the West Lothian Question.

However, the nationalists in both Scotland and Wales have dismissed such talk as scaremongering by Labour governments fearful of the results of the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament elections in May this year.