Sentences with phrase «of authoritarian states»

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.

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

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

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.

And then we have the president using language that really is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «fake news» used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.

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.

Trump on Wednesday conceded differences on North Korea with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who advocates keeping open the possibility of negotiations with Kim's authoritarian government.

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.»

This anti-Bitcoin memo, which is not up for a vote as a referendum by the citizens of New Jersey, is an authoritarian decree by a totally unaccountable arm of the state.

They think the United States should stand up to Chinese bullying of its East Asian neighbors and Russian bullying of its European neighbors and Iranian support of terrorism and whatever other authoritarian threat is running wild — all at the same time, if necessary.

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.

islam authoritarian totalitarian misogynistic supremacist conformist dogma & ideology desperately needs criticism absolutely needs to be confronted islam by definition is no separation between state and religion it deserves no respect the vast majority of the muslim world is repressive and unstable is this because of a tiny radical minority?

China, for example, «had everything to gain by opening up to the world» and although it sounded a tad like a Cameron cliché, one supposes he was hinting at a reciprocal arrangement: China's acceptance of free trade will offer opportunity and prosperity to all its citizens yet will equally be a sort of glasnost period where civic consciousness grows together with economic prosperity, and will thus engender reforms to the currently ossified and authoritarian Chinese 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.

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.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brits stripped of their citizenship, imprisonment without charge, state control of your bank account and an authoritarian approach to crime and punishment.

Fraga's mercurial, hyperactive and authoritarian character did not help him bridge personal differences and his clashes reached a peak with the Matesa Affair, a row over the misuse of state funds.

The Social Democrats may be a part of the European Socialists, but on identity politics (especially on nationalism, LGBT, migration and church - state relations) they have been solidly conservatism, catering to the country's prevailing authoritarian social values.

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.

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

Cuomo said he also believes the nation's largest blue states were discriminated against on other issues, including health care funding by an «authoritarian president» who controls two «highly partisan» houses of Congress.

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.

Look for the highly authoritarian GOP that controls the entire state to drag their feet as much as possible on the process, regardless of what they think the outcome will be.

Mr Cameron even stole Tony Blair's increasingly infamous description of Gordon Brown to paint his new political opponent as an unreformed authoritarian obsessed with state solutions to society's problems.

You could overthrow the current democratic political process and the institutions that support / defend it and replace it with an authoritarian system where by a head of state more to your liking could be appointed.

This was the beginning of the welfare state and is considered by some as an authoritarian and non-egalitarian form of «socialism».

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.

Following the May 2010 election, the new Coalition government said it believed the British state had become «too authoritarian» and promised to «implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»

V embodies the principles of rebellion from an authoritarian state, donning a mask of vilified would - be terrorist of British history Guy Fawkes and leading a revolution sparked by assassination and destruction.

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.

The book is intended as a cautionary tale about the perils of acquiescing to an authoritarian state.

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.

Ever since the compulsory state government education system was created more than 150 years ago there have been important educational pioneers who have disagreed with the traditional authoritarian approach of most schools.

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.»

«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.»

The International Jury of the 48th Venice Biennial, which included Zdenka Badovinac, Okwui Enwezor, Ida Gianelli, Yuko Hasegawa, and Rosa Martinez, stated that Katarzyna Kozyra's work explored and challenged the authoritarian domain of male territory, combining elements of performance art and stage production.

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.

For Authoritarian individuals, the «Socratic Method» is pointless; we have lots of recent studies that show stated opinions on climate change are correlated primarily with political (tribal) identification.