The impression Putin's presidency creates is of autocracy punctuated by elections.

(b) Inclusion of security and safety measures such as the glazing of the facade

The facade of the luxury Hotel Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, June 29, 2014.

Otherwise, we can expect a long period of stagnation, punctuated by periodic financial crises.

So Russia s political system will probably remain autocratic for the foreseeable future, with a facade of democracy.

The challenge is to be a real process and Bolivarian rather than merely a facade and chavism .

His reign was punctuated by a series of internal conflicts which he managed to overcome.

For decades, open conflict and simmering hostility have been punctuated by periods of short lived bonhomie.

This is Niles Eldredge. He was the co developer with Stephen Jay Gould of the theory of punctuated equilibrium.

Instead, it tends to be punctuated by major developments battles, assassinations, breakthroughs that have consequences that are felt for years.

And we discovered that by controlling the size of the holes, we could actually turn the entire facade into a gigantic, naturally ventilated, rasterized image.

I know this because look at how punctuated meal time is when they are no longer in their particular rooms here. Right?

It's a picturesque village on the edge of the Sahara desert, whose serenity is punctuated by five ritual daily calls to prayers.

Overall, after almost 25 years of stunning prosperity, punctuated by only two mild recessions, most Americans feel pretty confident about their economic situation.

The protesters then proceeded with the usual march, visiting the seat of the government and using the slingshots to throw more paint on its recently refurbished facade.

Its facade was one of the first to proclaim the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other.

It's punctuated by three quick anecdotes, which show how accidental encounters with strange noises gave us some of the most important information we have about space.

Blogger Fonzi from Con la cámara en el bolsillo ( With a camera in my pocket ) posts images of a house in Montevideo with images of comics painted on its facade.

In order to accomplish this, the existing facade had to be demolished, the new area cemented, and the metallic structure covered in brick built, always with the same technique and look.

This one entitled boom tells the story of Evan s experience with an explosion one of many terrorist attacks that have punctuated our days and weeks recently in Lebanon.

Given this backdrop of repression and punctuated democracy, the failure of Islamists in Egypt and Turkey tells us less about Islam s compatibility with democracy than we might think.

The history of legislative reform is substantially a punctuated equilibrium, with long periods of time during which public apathy prevents any progress, interrupted by scandals that suddenly make progress possible.

Otherwise, today s fencing in of the rich world will increase the risk of a backlash against free circulation of goods and capital, as well as of political instability punctuated by terrorism.

However, despite this positive picture, a climate of protracted social and humanitarian crisis endured through the year, punctuated by an intensification of the conflict, ongoing barrier construction and persistent fiscal crisis.

Anti Arabism ingrained in workplace attitudes, printed in newspapers, promoted on the television, spoken about unabashedly by regime officials, and touted by intellectuals, and a key factor in maintaining the facade of Iran Persian nationalism.

The security risk and blast assessment study found that the security measures incorporated in the final design, including the repositioning of the building, glazing specifications for the facade and ventilation features, were appropriate and sufficient.

And this Jordanian, whose Twitter handle means the facade of corruption, asked FacadeAlFasad Why do they easily insult an entire nation or generation, however fear and refrain from criticizing a single male or female decision maker?

China s prolonged and apparently contentious leadership transition, punctuated by the purge of Bo Xilai, suggests that its leaders ability to continue to manage the country s emergence as a great power is not entirely certain.

Hospitals throughout Europe and America consistently reported death rates between 20 to 25 of all women giving birth, punctuated by intermittent epidemics with up to 100 fatalities of women giving birth in childbirth wards.

The flag mural is located on the facade of an abandoned building on San José Street in Old San Juan, and before its makeover locals and tourists alike often took photos of it as a memory of their visit.

Speciation events are important in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which accounts for the pattern in the fossil record of short bursts of evolution interspersed with relatively long periods of stasis, where species remain relatively unchanged.

When Jon Huntsman, an early contender, displayed some real intellectual heft by making a few useful points about dealing with China, punctuated by a brief display of his own mastery of Mandarin, some other candidates responded with derision.

In the 1970s Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium which holds that stasis is the most prominent feature of the fossil record, and that most evolutionary changes occur rapidly over relatively short periods of time.

In the new urban area development plan Lindström gave the town hall a prominent location next to the river bank, with the main facade facing south over the harbour on the Ume River (which was still navigable at the time, providing the city's main point of access).

The sight of run down physical infrastructure, punctuated by super modern shopping malls with global consumer brand names well beyond the purchasing power of most citizens, is not what you would expect in an economy once described as a potential Asian Dragon.

As long as we rely on technical fixes to plug moral gaps and governments rush in with rescue packages that enable the merry go round to start up again, we are bound to keep lurching from frenzy to frenzy, punctuated by intervals of collapse.

Tailgating, or picking up dimes in front of a steamroller, is another source of febezzle. Investors search for regular small gains punctuated by occasional large losses, an approach exemplified by the carry trade by which investors borrowed euros in Germany and France to lend in Greece and Portugal.

You may think I'm wrong in this, but I think that we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew, about our lives, about our careers, comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

But any assessment of European economic governance must acknowledge the slow, contradictory nature of intergovernmental decision making, in which a misconceived notion of national interest, together with upsurges in popular anti EU sentiment and electoral pressure, has led to a stop and go process, punctuated by financial market swoons.

So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event, which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights, the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls, which stand about 200 feet tall. It was really incredible.