Not even the most passionate advocate of the responsibility to protect can pretend otherwise.

This line of thinking led governments to believe that Arabs would not demonstrate in large numbers and demand change.

As long as activists, workers, journalists, and members of opposition parties are starved, gagged, and oppressed, they will keep on protesting and demonstrating until they bid you good riddance!

And I think we have taught men to be secure when they are insecure, to pretend they know things when they don't know things, or why would we be where we are?

As Europe s leaders gather in Portugal to put the finishing touches on the new, slimmed down, Reform Treaty, it might be helpful if they all pretended that the last 50 years of European integration had never taken place.

But India is wary of those who, under Pakistani tutelage, might pretend to be reborn constitutionalists, but seize the first opportunity after a US withdrawal to devour the regime that compromises with them.

In response to the question posed by Ms. Morvai, he said that NGOs in the Gambia were not at all oppressed since, in accordance with the country's democratic principles, all citizens were entitled to demonstrate and to associate freely with one another.