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With Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte holding his ground, Wilders will most likely be denied power in the end.
When a family’s income is insufficient to pay school fees for every child, girls are typically denied an education, owing to the traditional belief that marriage is a girl’s final destiny.
A further ten million school-age girls are married off as child brides each year, while around 32 million girls are denied the right even to an elementary education.
It cannot turn its back on migrants left stranded for months in unsuitable facilities in Greece and Italy, while their children are denied the right to an education.
The Chinese government’s final affront against Liu came last month, when it denied his request to receive treatment for advanced liver cancer.
Venezuelans would like nothing better than to be the ones who decide their own destiny, but the democratic means to do so are being denied to them.
Although socialist economic policies in both countries inhibited initiative and enterprise, a positive legacy of that period cannot be denied.
That, however, is a completely different question from whether women who do want to become engineers and are qualified to study engineering should be denied the opportunity to achieve their ambition.
The United Nations Convention on Torture explicitly forbids “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,” so their use must be denied.
Only in 2004 were British gays allowed to form “civil partnerships” – relationships with the same legal status as marriage, but denied the title.
By presenting voters with more candidates than positions, Deng Liqun, a member of the ultra-left Old Guard, was denied a seat.
All it takes to have a visa denied or canceled is to sympathize with human-rights movements in China or express any view that contradicts the CCP’s position.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), which the US, the UK, and France support, has denied involvement in the alleged chemical attacks, but has not condemned the rebels’ brutal campaigns.
A U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, which President Dwight Eisenhower had denied existed, had been shot down over Soviet territory.
No other technology was as apt, so the US Constitution specified that it would not be used to curtail speech (First Amendment) or be denied to the citizenry (Second Amendment), and that government holders of firearms could not be placed in citizens’ homes (Third Amendment).
Some people are being denied the chance to speak as well – so-called “no platforming”, in the awful jargon of some clearly not very literate campuses.
Unfortunately, we have a recent precedent for this type of behavior: Kenya’s rulers, too, ignored and twisted the rule of law and the integrity of the electoral process, relying on violence to secure a political outcome that their fellow citizens denied them.
Israel’s government has denied that people are starving and has relaxed its import restriction regime.
On one hand, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has denied Belarusian politicians even informal access to meetings in Strasbourg.
But the regime’s ambitions cannot be denied.
In many high security American prisons, inmates are routinely kept in virtual isolation, fed in their cells, allowed out for only half an hour of exercise a day, sometimes denied a TV, a radio, or even decorations for their concrete walls - conditions which have been documented to drive many of them into states of serious psychosis.
Thus, Russia is denied access to new credits and has to make its scheduled payments at the expense of its currency reserves, so impeding the financing of internal growth and, as a result, the same cycle of problems is reproduced.
Opposition activists were blocked from most campaigning, and often arrested, while Kremlin-controlled courts denied their complaints.
This has denied Ukraine the lighthouse that helped guide other post-communist states – most recently Bulgaria and Romania – towards Western-style democracy and rule of law.
The OUN broke with the Nazis after they denied Ukraine independence, and finally fought the Soviets and both the army of Communist Poland and the anticommunist Polish underground after the Germans were routed.
The Europeans are treating Iraq as a prize to be denied the US, not as a strategic danger.
The failure to reflect the changing balance of global power brought about by the rise of China, Brazil, South Africa, and other emerging countries undermines both the effectiveness and the legitimacy of today’s international system, particularly in the eyes of those who feel denied of proper recognition.
As a consequence of the views he expressed on Swedish television, he was denied re-entry into the Church, as was promised earlier by Pope Benedict, which is probably just as well.
In January 2016, the TransCanada energy company used NAFTA to sue the United States, claiming $15 billion in losses after President Barack Obama denied a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Japan should no longer be denied fair treatment because of events more than 60 years ago.
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