Sentences with phrase «of civilian rule»

A military junta under his leadership enforced rigid control over the country for the next two decades but in 1988 under increasing pressure for the restoration of civilian rule Pinochet agreed to submit himself to a limited popular mandate.

Mr Babangida wanted to speed up the restoration of civilian rule, which Mr Buhari did not see as a priority.

AN ORDER OF MANDAMUS is made directing and or compelling the Defendants / Respondents to provide the Plaintiff / Applicant with up to date information on recovered stolen funds since the return of civilian rule in 1999, including:

Not exact matches

A recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration that dismissed China's claims to 85 % of the region are unlikely to improve the situation as Beijing continues civilian flights to the contested region.

In a 1956 private letter ruling, the IRS explained that not only was the court's holding limited to the military, but that it didn't even apply to civilian employees of the military.

The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

It makes a clear distinction between jihad, which is warfare with rules of engagement, and irjaf, which amounts to terrorism (religiously motivated violence against civilians).

Before, Iraqi officers were highly critical of the Obama administration's rules, saying that many requests for airstrikes were denied because of the risk that civilians would be hurt.

The strikes raise questions about rules of engagement, and whether some of the laws put in place to minimize civilian casualties have been relaxed under President Donald Trump.

I do not like that my taxes supported the killing of civilians in war but I choose to be an American citizen and abide by its rules.

Additionally, Charlotte's Citizen's Review Board has never ruled in favor of a civilian complaint against an officer.

He strongly supported Busia's call for quick return to civilian rule to prevent the militarization of the state and, along with his family, helped to establish the Progress Party in Osu in 1969.

In terms of government, his sterling leadership, his unique desire for tolerance, genuine unity, transparency, accountability and Peace has earned him the accolade in a gold plate «THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CIVILIAN TO HAVE RULED GHANA PEACEFULLY AND HANDED OVER PEACEFULLY».

Also, note this: «It was unclear if the protesters he was referring to were militants or civilian supporters of the Islamic group, which rules Gaza and opposes Israel's existence.»

She lamented the years of military rule in Pakistan and the devastating effects it has had on the organic growth of Pakistan's civilian institutions.

The new head of the Civilian Complaint Review Board wants the police - oversight agency to stop considering complainants» arrest records when weighing rulings — but critics argue the plan reeks of «bias against police officers.»

The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements, an example of which are the civilians that opposed Nazi German rule in several countries during World War II.

If effect, there is no longer a civilian government of any kind: the military are competing amongst themselves for the right to rule Mali, and that right will be won by force of arms.

This is a civilian administration, it is democracy and it is imperative and very, very important that all institutions of democracy operate within the ambit of the rule of law.

The ruling, which reverses a lower court's decision, came just over a week after ThinkProgress published the leaked records of Officer Daniel Pantaleo from the Civilian Complaint Review Board, showing he had seven disciplinary complaints and 14 individual allegations against him.

After civilian rule was established in the Fourth Republic in January 1993, Amidu continued to serve in the government of Jerry Rawlings as Deputy Attorney - General.

«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»

The Governor who described May 29 as a child of June 12, argued that, it was the unrelenting pursuit of the actualization of June 12 with the sweat and blood of patriots and nationalists that led to military disengagement and civilian rule on May 29.

«This is to ensure we enthrone genuine democracy, good governance, respect for the rule of law and put an end to the reign of civilian dictatorship.»

Carr was referring to the July 2015 decision by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger, who ruled in favor of the Legal Aid Society, which had sought a summary of the accusations that were lodged against Officer Daniel Pantaleo prior to Garner's death in 2014 and substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

While using rockets against civilians violates the rules of war and international conventions, they wouldn't be a WMD on this criteria taken alone.

Though the use of choke holds by the police has been prohibited by internal rules since 1993, there were more than 1,000 complaints filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board in the last 5 years alone.

«The President recalls the unique role of the elder statesman in the nation's return to civilian rule in 1999 and trusts that, as a tireless advocate for equity, he will be long remembered and honoured for his dedication to the advancement of his people, especially in the fields of education, social welfare and infrastructure.

Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso and Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres — who introduced the bill that would require officers to identify themselves and inform civilians of their right to refuse a search — are working to bypass Mark - Viverito, who forged a deal with Bratton that would adopt some provisions of the act into the Patrol Guide rule book and mandate retraining of police officers.

«The Coalition of CSOs on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria undertakes review of the ongoing - war on terrorism to ascertain maximum adherence of the military to the rules of engagement by the Nigerian military, enforcement of fundamental human rights of civilians and protection of man's dignity and respect for person and to ensure that the activities of non-state actors are in conformity with the general principles and purposes of the United Nations and other conventions» rights.

The court's second ruling ended a suit by the Legal Aid Society, which had sought the release of the disciplinary records from the Civilian Complaint Review Board of one officer in particular: Daniel Pantaleo, who had placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold moments before he died on a Staten Island sidewalk in July 2014.

Reasons for Displacement: Documenting Abuses Against Syrian Civilians (ABA Rule of Law Initiative) January 2014

In 1984, in the wake of Argentina's return to civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regime.

Military commanders already apply humanitarian «rules» to protect civilians, as laid down in the Geneva Convention of 1949 and its protocols.

In a monochromatic world where scientific advancement allows for optimization of life itself, a ruling class of scientists uses CRISPR technology to produce classes of civilians with singular purposes: farmers resistant to sunlight, doctors with photographic memories, and fearless police officers.

In 1985, for example, José Sarney became the country's first civilian president after 21 years of military rule and promised to expropriate 14 million hectares of land and settle 1.4 million peasants.

It reads in part: «In compliance with Gods order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it... to liberate the al - Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque (Mecca) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.»

The film really gets started when the boys, now mature men with some age and life experience under their belts, return to Mississippi as psychologically damaged war veterans and slog their way through the challenges of civilian life in a postwar Deep South ruled by bigotry and ignorance.

Narratively, Game Night is a fairly loose spoof, with screenwriter Mark Perez (Accepted, The Country Bears) adhering closer to the rules of the dubious, aforementioned civilians - in - trouble subgenre, meaning that we get lots of scenes of Bateman, McAdams, and company pratfalling in and out of sticky situations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a final rule amending its commercial driver's license (CDL) regulations to ease the transition of military personnel into civilian careers driving commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) by simplifying the process of obtaining a commercial learner's permit (CLP) or CDL.

For this civilian, the jargon within, and the acronyms, and the dozens upon dozens of rules from cash collection to food management teams to preparing various forms make it as quick to understand as IKEA assembly instructions.

According to the CIA Factbook, «comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep - seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production.»

As more innocent civilians become trapped and forced into submission under Joseph Seed's rule, only a handful of resistance stands between Seed along with his reign.

Wolfenstein: The New Order took place in an alternative timeline were the Nazis won the war, while Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus tells the story of the Nazi occupation's ever intensifying grip on countries that it rules since winning the war with Nazi symbols and propaganda everywhere a civilian looks.

As more innocent civilians become trapped and forced into submission under Joseph Seed's rule, only a handful of resistance stands between Seed and his reign.

But drones found their way outside the military, creating the need for a different set of rules for civilians.

Most of these have been greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism south of the border, largely due to the strict United States Federal Aviation Administration rules governing the use of civilian drones.

: This is another kind of case that almost always requires a civilian witness, although prosecutors sometimes try to circumvent the hearsay rule with complex legal arguments.

Although the Code empowers the President of the United States to alter, modify, repeal, or prescribe additional rules regarding the flag, no federal agency has the authority to issue «official» rulings legally binding on civilians or civilian groups.