Syria s Hijacked Struggle

The participatory process, so critical in any constitution making, was hijacked.

But it has been hijacked by Israel for the benefit of its businesses.

Just last week, a Ukrainian freighter carrying heavy weaponry, including tanks, was hijacked.

He hijacked a goddamn plane. Egyptair Mohamed El Dahshan ( eldahshan) March 29, 2016

They then hijacked two armored personnel carriers and sped toward the frontier with Israel.

No unified, patriotic Syrian opposition has existed since extremists hijacked the peaceful protests in 2011.

The media are no longer a commentator, but a participant that has hijacked politics with imagery.

The issue of access to the sea has been hijacked by the current Bolivian administration, said Zárate.

As a Chinese official once told me in an unguarded moment, North Korea has hijacked our foreign policy.

Some analysts say anti government leaders have hijacked the Royal Color to pretend that they have his support.

Some analysts say anti government leaders have hijacked the Royal Color to pretend that they have his support.

The participatory process, so critical in any constitution making, was hijacked. The public was presented with one choice yes or no.

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers hijacked the Iranian revolution in 1979, democracy became impossible the cleric had become a dictator.

If the WTO is to be a democratic institution, it must not allow its green room to be hijacked by a few.

It means not allowing newspapers and TV to be hijacked by spurious passions and staged theatrics designed to divert attention from everything else.

It means not allowing newspapers and TV to be hijacked by spurious passions and staged theatrics designed to divert attention from everything else.

In the early hours of the drama, authorities claimed that another man had hijacked the plane, raising speculations about his nationality and motives.

Americans and the Tea Party should look at France a century ago, when religious bigotry hijacked constitutionalism, and then take a good hard look at themselves.

He is knowledgeable about how centuries old Maldives national and religious identity has been hijacked by fundamentalists within a short span of just over a decade.

No unified, patriotic Syrian opposition has existed since extremists hijacked the peaceful protests in 2011. Indeed, some opposition tactics are as brutal as those of the Syrian regime.

military and intelligence operations outside the country are taking place without the government s knowledge or orders....Only after an airplane is hijacked are we made aware of it.

He does not belong to a particular denomination and has distanced himself from religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked .

Instead, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hijacked the Quito meeting to propagate his Bolivarian Revolution and expound his own ideas for the continent s future as independent of the United States.

But now look at our world. And we are living in a world that is where religion has been hijacked. Where terrorists cite Quranic verses to justify their atrocities.

My father believed in a holistic approach to living, and, you know, every time he taught us, he'd say, I hate these books, because these books are hijacked by Industrial Revolution.

The term energy security in Europe has been hijacked to empower suppliers and weaken importers, implying a drastic reduction in competition, rising political vulnerability, and the erosion of the rule of law.

And he said, Oh, it's very easy. I can teach you, but we're leaving the city, because billboard painters are a dying, extinct bunch of artists, because digital printing has totally replaced them and hijacked them.

All of these issues were an integral part of the EU s ambitious Lisbon Strategy (which in 2000 promised to make Europe the world s most competitive economy by 2010), and all were quickly hijacked by national political agendas.

Destruction On September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and crashed it into the northern façade of the North Tower at 8 46 40 a.m., the aircraft striking between the 93rd and 99th floors.

Seventeen minutes later, at 9 03 11 a.m., a second team of terrorists crashed the similarly hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 into the southern facade of the South Tower, striking it between the 77th and 85th floors.

What is also apparent is the fact that the debate has been exploited and hijacked by radical and extreme elements on both sides of the divide those defending the right of free speech and those who defend the Muslim faith

We need to create a movement among all these people that I meet in my travels you probably meet, too who want to join up, in some way, and reclaim their faith, which they feel, as I say, has been hijacked.

All that, plus the fact that the Obama Administration is dedicating some of its Cuba democracy funding to Cuba s gay community, led Mariela Castro to say the blessed event was a U.S. show, or was hijacked to make it so.

What Thai democracy needs in order to mature is not a political safety net, but a vigilant citizenry to ensure disciplined enforcement of the constitution s provisions and institutions, so that they can no longer be hijacked by the likes of a Thaksin.

Deema commented on the reactions of UNRWA and Abbas' appointments, seeing it as a hijack of Assaf's title for personal purposes. DeemaM The best part about Assaf winning ArabIdol is how the UNRWA and Mahmoud Abbas have hijacked his win for their own selfish purposes.

The term energy security in Europe has been hijacked to empower suppliers and weaken importers, implying a drastic reduction in competition, rising political vulnerability, and the erosion of the rule of law. The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin s likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is Chairman of Gazprom leaves little doubt about the Kremlin s determination to maintain an iron grip on the energy sector.