Word: dictatorship
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...mandate for a predecided course of action (holding the formal in Lev) and reneging when the results didn’t go as planned.” In response, HoCo issued an apology for the confusion of having two surveys and dispelled the notions of HoCo dictatorship, claiming to have Lev unity in mind and citing financial obstacles and low survey participation rate (286 out of about 650 Leverites) as problems...
Belarus is in many ways a post-Soviet nation in name only. Its state security service is still called the KGB and the iron-fisted rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led the U.S. State Department to dub the country "Europe's last dictatorship." U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House included the country in its "Worst of the Worst 2009" report released earlier this month, naming Belarus one of the 21 most repressive places in the world...
Piety alone is not the explanation for the change in dress. "The veil is the mask of Egyptian woman in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men," says Nabil Abdel Fattah of Cairo's al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and author of The Politics of Religion. "The veil gives women more power in a man's world." Ziada, the human-rights activist, says the hijab--her headscarves are in pinks, pastels, floral prints and plaids, not drab black--provides protective cover and legitimacy for her campaigns...
...have all the time in the world to remember every book I ever read and spend as long as I like exploring it from every angle in my imagination.” This in turn “strengthened [his] resolve and ability to stand resolutely against the dictatorship and to keep [himself] alive.” To represent in the world of arts and humanities the lives of others who are “hidden from history” is to recognize the ephemeral power of the imagination...
...teachers to administer Chávez's wide-ranging social programs among his nation's poor. Pedro Mena, a self-described Venezuelan opposition organizer in Miami, says the outreach by the Cuban-American lawmakers on Capitol Hill has helped bring attention to Venezuela's "inundation by the communist dictatorship in Cuba...