Sentences with phrase «of military rule»

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.

He decried the reluctance of democratically elected lawmakers to remove «the insidious structural impediments to development, which decades of military rule had hoisted upon our nation.»

The APC attracted heavyweight defectors from Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP), which has dominated the political scene since the end of military rule in 1999.

The Kaduna State governor stated, «There are many issues arising from the Unification Decree of 1966 by (Aguiyi) Ironsi, which progressed through the years of military rule which need to be fundamentally addressed.

Hillis defended the event in an interview, saying it was within the bounds of military rules and that attendance is totally voluntary.

But on one thing, Ripples is sure: the organised anarchy of military rule is gone and best forgotten.

After 11 years of military rule regulated by the issuance of decrees, the Fourth Republican Constitution was born and a general election held on December 7, I992.

When the Supreme Court played blatant politics with the law in 1979, the ultimate result was a collapsed democratic republic; and trauma of military rule as Nigerians never knew before.

If it had, Nigerians would have been saved the trauma of the most vicious strain of military rule, spanning 1984 to 1999, not discounting the diarchy from January 1992 to November 1993, during which the freest election in Nigerian history was annulled.

Even in the difficult 1980s, when a combination of military rule and economic problems afflicted the country, newspapers and magazines thrived.

Fifth columnists are no monopoly of military rule!

He disclosed that during the era of military rule, the growth of the Nigerian Police was stunted which affected the force badly pointing out that the idea of building barracks for policemen apart of huge cost of maintenance, kept the police far from the citizenry.

Also, Senator Shehu Sani said though the country was out of military rule it had yet to attain true democracy.

In June 2012, the Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi was elected president, only to be replaced by another phase of military rule, starting in July 2013.

During half a century of military rule, secrecy and corruption deprived Myanmar's people of the benefits of their country's oil, gas and mineral riches.

The legal system is theoretically based on the common law, inherited from the UK after independence in 1948; however this has been eroded as a result of military rule.

He has become an international symbol of an independent judiciary and of resistance to the excesses of military rule.

Education in Myanmar has suffered under decades of military rule.

When Parliament reconvened in 1993 after several years of military rule, for example, only one member had been an MP before.

But despite the problems, Russel says the elections can be a significant step forward in Myanmar's transition from five decades of military rule.

But after four years of military rule, we saw the negative state of Nigeria growing even more.

Going down memory lane, Ekwueme said he and others formed the party as a mass movement in 1999, after several years of military rule.

It was Nigeria's first taste of a renascent democracy after so many years of military rule, coups and counter-coups.

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.

Yet thirty years ago, when the island was tentatively emerging from four decades of military rule, this future was far from certain.

In 1988, following 24 years of military rule, democracy was re-established in Brazil.

Decades of military rule have severely damaged judicial institutions that are vital to protecting the rule of law and human rights in Myanmar.