Ruling
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For example, just as the Kremlin politicizes Interpol to harass its political opponents abroad, Poland’s
ruling
Law and Justice (PiS) party has used its veto power as an EU member state to ban one of its critics, the Ukrainian human-rights activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska, from entering the EU’s Schengen area.
With its bliss-inducing drug “soma” and sensuous entertainments known as “feelies,” which provided the sort of engrossing distraction now offered by video games and iPods, Brave New World’s perspective adds a new dimension to understanding the durability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a protean
ruling
party.
But a member of Brave New World’s
ruling
elite would have taken it in stride.
Moreover, in accordance with Saudi tradition, the
ruling
family appoints a Prince as chairman of the General Committee overseeing the elections – a sign not of wider political participation, but of business as usual.
The threat came from two directions – from within the highest echelons of the Party leadership, where ideological differences over reform split the
ruling
Politburo, and from the urban masses, who, with Beijing’s university students at the vanguard, stood in open, peaceful revolt against state authority.
Not surprisingly, this has led to an overwrought response from them and their lobbyists: the ruling, they allege, destroys the incentive to innovate, and thus will deal a serious blow to public health globally.
Obasanjo and the
ruling
Peoples Democratic Party were re-elected in May 2003 in controversial circumstances.
The opposition seized on the
ruling
and called on Obasanjo to resign.
These risks could in turn exacerbate internal discord in the country at a time when the
ruling
Justice and Development Party is struggling to retain popular support.
In Venezuela, where oil represents 95% of export revenues, voters naturally turned on the
ruling
Socialist Party.
Add to that corruption scandals involving Bachelet’s son and weaknesses in the
ruling
center-left coalition, and the center right’s return to power in the 2017 presidential election seems increasingly likely.
Moreover, while rapprochement with Israel has become more likely, Turkey faces severe tensions with Syria and Iran, and its Islamist
ruling
party must still prove that it can coexist with the country’s secular political tradition.
For Morsi and his supporters, it was imperative to neutralize the Constitutional Court judges, whose
ruling
last June dissolved the first freely elected, post-revolution People’s Assembly (the parliament’s lower house).
Even before Pakistan’s
ruling
elite was shaken by the killings in Pakistan’s streets and the turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt, it had begun to plan measures aimed at mollifying an increasingly restive citizenry.
These two large emerging countries are still led by authoritarian governments, headed by
ruling
elites who – given how much wealth they have amassed – may be the most corrupt in history.
The French Revolution never actually ended the privileges of France’s
ruling
elites.
The public either was unaware of any excesses, or deemed the
ruling
elite corrupt by definition.
And in Iraq, Sunni Muslims feel under siege from the country’s majority and now
ruling
Shia.
The government of Tanzania has until September to respond to the
ruling.
The UN
ruling
has buoyed the hopes of women worldwide that their countries will be forced to address the injustices that may be found in some customary law and where bias hinders implementation of progressive legislation.
This is much more than a numbers game: these figures reflect an economic system that has left hundreds of millions of people behind, and is
ruling
out a better, fairer, and more prosperous future.
It is also long overdue, as evidenced by last year’s political upheavals, including the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte’s victories in the United States and the Philippines, respectively, and falling support for South Africa’s
ruling
African National Congress.
In other words, an autocrat
ruling
over an impoverished country with an oil-addicted economy smaller than that of Brazil is supposed to be capable of bringing down the world’s major democracies.
Initially, both cases went decisively against Microsoft, with a US
ruling
in 2000 that would have required the company’s break-up, although this was subsequently overturned on appeal.
The Pheu Thai party, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, the youngest sister of exiled fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, secured a resounding triumph, winning 265 seats in the 500-member assembly, while the
ruling
Democrat Party mustered just 159.
Griesa’s ruling, however, encourages usurious behavior, threatens the functioning of international financial markets, and defies a basic tenet of modern capitalism: insolvent debtors need a fresh start.
NML Capital, a subsidiary of the hedge fund Elliot Management, headed by Paul Singer, spent $48 million on bonds in 2008; thanks to Griesa’s ruling, NML Capital should now receive $832 million – a return of more than 1,600%.
Why would anyone, let alone a country’s
ruling
party, want to undermine a universally admired – and revenue-generating – architectural marvel?
After all, Hamas was democratically elected, but was forbidden from
ruling
and besieged in Gaza.
In both countries, the Parliaments were hostile to the Presidents, and the Presidents tried to ride roughshod over the Parliaments,
ruling
by decree and essentially ignoring hostile parliaments.
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