Also, 16.8 of the populace speak other Indo European languages at home.

Unfortunately, most of the Filipino populace are still completely ignorant on how scammers work.

Another of Brave New World s strategies for control was to maximize divisions among the populace.

Foreign lenders resulting caution would prevent future Egyptian governments from irresponsibly saddling their populace with debt.

This is against the background of the government trying to attract the populace to the stock market!

How reformists regroup, and how the youthful Iranian populace reacts, depends largely on the path the conservatives take.

Instead, the UN continues to defer to Mugabe, who hides behind claims of sovereignty while jailing a defenseless populace.

The Iranian government fears that electricity shortages, slow economic growth, and high unemployment will turn the populace against it.

A glimpse of the silent rage of China's populace has awakened Japan to the need for a comprehensive regional strategy.

German leaders, by contrast, must reckon with a populace that is deeply resistant to rapid change, particularly when it involves job cuts.

But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.

These private debts were passed along to the populace, which received nothing from the loans but is now expected to pay them back.

Instead of indignation at Lukashenko's actions, many seem to approve of them, as a bold defense against Russia's oligarchs, still much reviled by the populace.

Doesn't the government mind if so much of its urban populace is sinking into poverty and becoming disaffected? Why is this stability obsessed regime allowing so much instability?

No matter how bad the situation on the ground is, the government and it's resources (police,etc) should at all times do their best to protect it's populace.

An earlier Global Voices post reported how UNICEF India's poo2loo campaign has been using innovative methods to engage the urban populace and create awareness about the issue of open defecation.

Gay rights has long been a controversial issue in Singapore, where politicians often assert that the populace is still too conservative to be ready for further acceptance of LGBT rights.

Afghanistan s future hangs in the balance as its weak national government struggles to maintain support and legitimacy in the face of a widening insurgency, warlords, the heroin trade, and a disappointed populace.

The Kremlin s best hope now is that Georgia s economy will crumble, its currency will collapse, and an unhappy populace, encouraged by some opposition leader (perhaps bankrolled by Russia), will force Saakashvili from power.

The country has been ruled by President Ismael Omar Guelleh since 1999 and although the government s official line has been largely pro American, the broader populace has increasingly distanced itself from this stance.

Some have theorized this has to do with the urban rural divide as well as caste based discrimination, whereby national grief and mourning is selectively reserved for the urban and upper caste populace.

Perhaps realizing that an entertained and distracted populace is less likely to complain about public policy, the Party has allowed entertainment programming to follow the Western model, lessening the need for micro managed censorship.

But this time the soldiers have remained in their barracks, for the simple reason that an awakened populace, an active civil society, and a free and vibrant media would not tolerate another venture into politics by the army.

Back then, contacts with the old USSR and its satellites were believed to promote major domestic change. But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.

I want an africa that is not alway motivated by foreign culture which is applied in a stupid sense at the expense of the entire populace. iwant an africa that is eager to avoid all forms of corrupt practices.

The internet has provided ordinary Chinese with access to the real story as well as to a public voice, which means that they can be a powerful ally in efforts to effect change in the most populace nation on earth.

Job losses in the range of 60 million have suddenly rendered nearly an eighth of the urban populace indigent. Often without a dependable channel for airing their grievances, hordes of laid off workers and retired folk have filled the avenues over the past decade or so.

Now that popular opinion is emerging as a force in China, the Chinese people as well as its government will need to be wooed by those wishing to influence China. The internet has provided ordinary Chinese with access to the real story as well as to a public voice, which means that they can be a powerful ally in efforts to effect change in the most populace nation on earth.