Sentences with phrase «used by dictators»

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So many lives in places like Africa have actually been made WORSE by giving money and food that ends up in the hands of war lords and tin - pot dictators, who just use it increase their personal wealth and consolidate their power.

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The term rulers as used here also refers to earthly kings and presidents and dictators who are being used by wicked forces to accomplish Satan's goals.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

N Korea is run by a dictator who is currently threatening to use the nuclear weapons he has on a fairly flimsy pretext.

Although it was annulled without justification by military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, it was widely acknowledged as the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria, perhaps because it was conducted using the open ballot system.

Originally a judge from the eastern Libyan town of al - Bayida, his national profile made him an attractive figure in a country which is used to being dominated by the cult of personality around a long - lasting dictator.

A new advertising campaign by Don't Spy On Us features posters with the world's most famous authoritarians and dictators celebrating what Theresa May is about to do: create an incredibly extensive database of personal information and use it to spy on British citizens.

Capital Region Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R - Melrose) appeared at a press conference today for a bill that would prevent «messages of necessity» from the governor and compared the use of this legislative power by Andrew Cuomo to something dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini would do.

They belong to a team of naval archaeologists who recover sunken artifacts from the past — as well as thwarting the odd dictator and rescuing helpless damsels by the timely use of a spear gun.

Directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who also produce and share story credit with screenwriter Dan Sterling, the satire vowed to tell the story of two journalists recruited by the CIA to use an upcoming interview opportunity to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un.

But life is never straight forward for Thursday: she is low on funds and needs her Spec - Ops job back; she wants to return a troublesome bookjumper, Yorick Kaine, back to the book he came from, before he succeeds in his campaign to leap from Chancellor and leader of the Whigs to Dictator of England; and she needs to organise Play Group and a speech therapist for Friday, whose first two years spent in the Fiction world have him talking Lorem Ipsum, the dummy text used by printers.

Examples range from various financial crises to the use of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as a public relations pawn by the United States.

Margarita Myrogianni presents a photographic diptych of a still life with newspaper used as an object while at Tjorg Douglas Beer's collages a puppet is surrounded by images of celebrities, actors, pop star, dictators and war criminals that he has cut out of newspapers.

We can't burn fossil fuels they are too dirty, can't use renewable sources as they might effect tomorrow's spotted owl and anything left is owned by some whacked out dictator in the 3rd world.