They expose cracks in the wall of dictatorial power.

Their economies are booming. Democracy has been restored after half century of dictatorial disruption.

As in the Soviet era, the dictatorial mask disguises the system s economic and political fragility.

Continuing fear of political Islam in much of the West explains past support for dictatorial regimes.

Baathism was dictatorial and oppressive often brutally so but it protected minorities and the secular elites.

A constitutional dictatorship is a form of government in which dictatorial powers are exercised during an emergency.

The only Air Force officer that had a significant role in the dictatorial regime was Antonis Skarmaliorakis.

This could make way for Musharraf s dictatorial rule to continue into its eighth year and perhaps well beyond.

It is wrong, and even immoral, to equate democratic and dictatorial practices. But this is the new Russian equation.

One can therefore already foresee the establishment of a veritable monopoly and dictatorial control over the exercise of the Commission's functions.

Democracy has been restored after half century of dictatorial disruption. Yet the buoyant self confidence of today s Spain is completely absent from Poland.

Since the 1970 s, Kouchner has argued that states have a duty to prevent dictatorial governments from committing the worst abuses against their people.

Since 2000, China has actively courted Africa s unstable and dictatorial countries with offers of aid and a refusal to back United Nations sanctions against them.

I will venture further to say that viewed from the other side, the kidnapping of those activists reflects dictatorial ambitions to kidnap an entire nation and suppress its revolution.

The UAE, a somewhat decentralized and consensual federation, is not as dictatorial as the others, but only seven voters the traditional rulers of the federation's seven emirates elect the president.

Some of the Sudanese Twitter users likened the events happening in Khartoum to those in other countries in the region and maintained solidarity with those struggling with dictatorial regimes elsewhere.

The soldiers of the Red Army, and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union who armed and fed them, allowed their dictatorial masters to commit crimes and committed crimes themselves.

China has tried to persuade Kim s regime to follow its market oriented example, but Kim is afraid that an economic opening would lead to a political opening and loss of dictatorial control.

Given this, and the challenges of administering a new country, integrating the princely states into the Indian Union, and reorganizing the divided armed forces, they could have been forgiven for demanding dictatorial powers.

An end should be put to the existence of white spots of democracy, of criminal enclaves and dictatorial regimes, and of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms on the territory of Georgia.

An end should be put to the existence of white spots of democracy, of criminal enclaves and dictatorial regimes, and of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms on the territory of Georgia.

The blatantly off handed, treasonous, and unconstitutional attacks by General Pervez Musharraf on the judiciary, media, and people of Pakistan have brought the true dictatorial character of the present regime into the lime light.

She encouraged Yemeni to bravely pursue their struggle to topple the dictatorial regime, as she leads the chants in Sanaa's Change square, shown in this video posted also by Women Journalist Without Chains channel.

The demonstration calling for an end to the dictatorial system in place for almost 50 years was initially planned to occur in front of the main post office of Algiers an impressive security detail prohibited the gathering.

Were the moral overtones of dealing with the Qaddafis so obvious before the Arab revolutions spread to Libya? Or to pose the question more broadly, is it so clear that advisers should always steer clear of dictatorial regimes?

That will be welcome news to people living under dictatorial regimes installed and propped up by the US, and to the opposition leaders and journalists languishing in US supported prisons in those countries for having engaged in just such protest.

20 years ago, even during the time of the dictatorial military regime, the people were able to eat at least two times per day, now after 20 years of WB's aid, the people are unable to eat once in a day.

Continuing fear of political Islam in much of the West explains past support for dictatorial regimes. Today, the EU and the US should demand the liberation of all members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Morsi, and the integration of the Brotherhood into any political solution.

Lukashenko s regime has rested on three pillars a social contract that promises national independence and a guaranteed low income in exchange for tacit consent to dictatorial rule a propaganda machine that reinforces the value and necessity of this deal and a massive security apparatus to enforce it.

José García Hamilton, an Argentinean scholar of Bolívar, believes that the Liberator was consistently dictatorial In his Jamaica letter (1815) and in the constituent convention of Angostura (1819), Bolívar postulated a political system with a life term presidency, a hereditary chamber made up of the generals who had achieved independence...