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At best, the electoral victories of such groups make the formation of responsible governments difficult; at worst, they foreshadow actively antidemocratic movements capable of getting a majority by election.--
These were among the many incremental victories Zhao won to help China’s people break out of the suffocating stagnation of Maoist socialism.
After his two landslide victories, he thought he could have it all.
Aside from the Almighty, the purveyors of such victories are the larger-than-life President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, both duly portrayed with gaze fixed heavenward.
At that point, further political victories for Ortega and his wife will surely require God’s grace.
These victories create an opportunity for the government to reach out to the opposition and to minority groups to build a truly inclusive and democratic Sri Lanka, but this has not yet happened.
That much should be clear to virtually everyone, if not to Putin, whose obsession with short-term tactical victories – which usually take the form of poking the United States in the eye – can also be seen in Syria.
Although he achieved important victories over the Ottomans, Corvinus took him prisoner, and he was killed in 1477 in renewed fighting with Ottoman troops.
The Israel Lobby’s Gay-Rights HypocrisyLONDON – One of the few liberal victories in a conservative age in the United States has been the formal acceptance of homosexuality.
What victories has Russia’s army achieved in these years?
This year, responsible center-right parties have won three surprise victories – in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Latvia.
I can easily envision alternatives, such as Communist victories in post-World War II elections in Italy and France that would have impoverished nations now in the rich North.
Outsiders are achieving significant political victories by making dramatic promises to shake up or overthrow the system.
That is the meaning of Brexit, Trump’s victory, and any populist victories to come.
Taming the PopulistsMADRID – In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energized by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim that globalization lies at the root of many citizens’ problems.
Inevitably, they could not foresee that Blair would go on to win an unprecedented three successive election victories for Labour, in 1997, 2001, and 2005, and thus keep Labour in power for a record-breaking period of possibly as long as 13 years.
The images from these victories, featuring women, are an antidote to ISIS’s poisonous propaganda, and they encourage more women to resist the group’s ideological dictates.
Previous landslide victories in Iran – those of the reformist Mohammad Khatami in 1997, of the little-known populist firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, and, arguably, even of Rouhani four years ago – were also largely unexpected outcomes.
The intellectual critique of Marxism inside and outside the Soviet Bloc, whether by Charter 77 or Solidarity or the New Philosophers in France, accompanied the economic difficulties of state socialism and the Soviet Union's failure to secure military or strategic victories (Angola, Afghanistan, the placement of middle-range rockets in Western Europe despite the protests of the Peace Movement).
Performance enhancing drugs cheapen sport, making winners out of also-rans, and depriving virtuous and superior athletes of the victories that should be theirs.
By contrast, Hamas has entered electoral politics only recently, but it is fresh from impressive victories in the recent municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza.
Havel’s life is a reminder of the miracles that such a credo can bring about; yet it is also a reminder of the more somber fact that truth’s victories are never definitive.
But these are always Pyrrhic victories, because every murder of civilians creates new rebels, who will rise again in time.
But this was facilitated by the movement’s close ties with the AKP – an alliance that helped the AKP to secure three successive electoral victories since 2002.
That is why it is reasonable to hope that the next round of victories in global development will turn out to be even more impressive than the last.
Perhaps we should celebrate the regulatory victories in both Europe and the United States.
Propaganda focuses on the military victories of Russia’s “1,000-year history” (copyright: Vladimir Putin), in order to reinforce the image of Russia as a fortress besieged by the hostile West.
She won famous victories, but showed no generosity to the defeated, in word or deed.
But her victories came at a huge social cost, with unemployment rising to 12% of the labor force (three million people) in 1984, the highest since the 1930’s.
It has been the driving force behind civil-rights victories from the abolition of chattel slavery to the contemporary movement to secure the rights and dignity of LGBQT people.
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