Indeed, the central feature of the first decade of the Pope's reign was his struggle against dictatorship Communist dictatorship in particular.

Theme fighting with warlords in north China. WW2 Japan pic.twitter.com eaCD5Er6Ge China in WW2 ( chinaww2) April 3, 2016

Ben Ali s regime ultimately became a pure dictatorship.

Egypt s military coup has made the simple, depressing alternatives for the country s future crystal clear The question is no longer one of democracy versus dictatorship, but rather one of (Islamist) revolution versus (military) counter revolution dictatorship or dictatorship.

Similarly, the West will have to understand that the Islamic Republic is not a monolithic dictatorship.

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.

Human rights will not co exist with dictatorship, or with any other non democracy, for long.

Under today's arrangements, China faces a choice between the Dictatorship of the Proletariat or the Three Represents.

Syria powerfully demonstrates how a fight against a dictator can soon turn into a sectarian struggle for survival or mastery.

These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture.

His decisive struggle against dictatorship and determined opposition to any deal with Bhutto that excludes him will intensify.

The changes carried out by the Cuban dictatorship are new rules for the same old game hanging on to power.

Those countries supplying arms to Burma expose themselves to charges of complicity in the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the dictatorship.

Gender based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples.

Fed up with a military regime and dictatorship, coupled with dire socio economic conditions, Mauritanians saw in the Arab Spring, a fresh breath for them.

He joins John Kerry in an awkward push to convince international banks that doing business with a theocratic dictatorship is in the interest of everyone.

At other times, like Stalin, he believes that Russia s power requires a strong hand what he calls his dictatorship of law.

Punishment is ultimately an instrument not the only one, nor the most important for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.

Human rights advocates have observed that such heavy concentration of troops is unheard of in the province even during the dark years of Martial Law under the Marcos military dictatorship.

The movement challenged the privatized educational system that was established by the Pinochet dictatorship that denied an affordable quality educational system to the majority of Chileans.

After decades of struggle against dictatorship and foreign domination, we secured our freedom and independence in 1979 by establishing a political system of our own choosing.

Long a military dictatorship, Mali became an African democratic success story from 1991 to 2012, before a coup crippled its rudimentary public institutions.

Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.

As they see it, the immediate choices in the Arab world are not between dictatorship and democracy, but between malevolent stability and apocalyptic mayhem.

My father helped those who resisted dictatorships in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and then it was the turn of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.

Indeed, Mr Tung's anticipatory subservience to the real or imagined wishes of China's rulers exposed the congenital flaw in the political architecture of uniting a liberal society with a dictatorship.

All of us tend to make the same mistake repeatedly we think at the beginning of a revolution that freedom and justice have prevailed over dictatorship and cruelty.

Equally, there are plenty of Taiwanese who would like their island eventually to reunify with China, particularly if China democratizes and ceases to be a one party communist dictatorship.

But, with the crisis eroding these foundations, trust is giving way to mistrust, solidarity is succumbing to ancient prejudices (and even new hatred between the poor south and the rich north), and compromise is being overwhelmed by diktat.

Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970 s, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive dictatorship.

The European Parliament has consistently denounced Belarus as Europe s last dictatorship, yet EU member governments continue business as usual with Aleksander Lukashenka, the country s wayward and near lunatic despot.

The assertion implicit in Cohen s articles not only pushes engagement with a dictatorship, for the supposed benefit of the United States, but dismisses any hope that Iranians might have legitimate democratic aspirations that could possibly succeed in their country.

Roberto Eismann, the editor of the La Prensa newspaper (before it was shut down by the Noriega dictatorship), called Noriega a coward for avoiding a heroic death in 1989 when he fled United States troops intent on toppling his government

Egypt in chaos, with the West, however unfairly, looking as if it is giving succor to those who would turn it into a Sunni version of Iran and Iran itself, despite its new president, still a theocratic dictatorship, with a nuclear bomb.