Military discipline is literally rigid.

On the contrary, it has become more rigorous and covert.

Stock options, too, often stir passionate criticism.

Ironically, Hishamuddin Hussein is far from an Islamic hard liner.

She carved out a successful business career in the rough and tumble of the post Soviet gas industry.

Predictably, Turner came in for severe criticism from City of London bankers and the British Treasury.

Soft power without the backing of hard power changes little witness Iran.

Tightening fiscal policy would go a long way towards boosting confidence in the US.

The list was a compromise that included moderate conservatives and even some moderate hardliners.

Geoffroy was a bitter critic of Voltaire and his followers, and made for himself many enemies.

In addition, a successful leader needs the hard power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.

Greece is struggling to breathe, and European austerity measures are deeply unpopular.

The Indian government has come under harsh criticism from international human rights watch organisations for torture and abuse by the Indian police against Adivasi women.

Some praise VK for lack of harsh censorship directed at its users, others have been criticizing us for years for this very thing.

And yet China s reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading. The government s renewed focus on such a target is thus another indication that the global economic crisis has strengthened those Chinese officials and intellectuals who advocate a socialist system.

And yet China s reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading.

Executives at the institutions that were bailed out continue to maintain all of their privileges without the government requiring them to apply austerity measures.

There is much talk these days about hard and soft power, about America having one and Europe the other.

As for America, it is down in terms of both soft ideological power and hard military power.

But the charges against Khodorkovsky are as flimsy as they are tendentious the privatization case had been amicably settled previously, and Khodorkovsky has merely used tax avoidance schemes that are commonplace in Russia and that have been upheld in court. Putin's real problem is that Khodorkovsky is too powerful and independent for the straitened politics he wants.

Putin's real problem is that Khodorkovsky is too powerful and independent for the straitened politics he wants.

In competitive markets such as Silicon Valley, high salaries and interesting projects are merely table stakes.

But the boom generated by such beliefs cannot go on forever, because prices can t go up forever, and there are already signs of a hard landing.

These qualities simply don't exist in Russia's Sovietized military organizations, with their rigid hierarchies and culture of blind conformity.

The mere possibility of an imminent hard landing for the dollar and with it, for the US and world economy should be alarming enough to mobilize concerted action.

Despite tight monetary policy and foreign exchange regulations, the scheme has boosted trade and investment while reducing intraregional indebtedness.

But, in the face of a severe recession and endless real wars, hot button culture war issues don t have the mobilizing power that they once did.

Things don't always go as planned, and she must deal with harsh new realities in the highly competitive city of New York.

However, it should be noted that Tabnak and Rezaee form into a hardline faction that are often critical of other hardliners, such as those close to the former conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

While a large majority of Iranians want to make amends with the US, for Iran s hardliners, enmity toward the US has become a central part of the Islamic Republic s identity.

Meanwhile, an increase in the exchange rate is likely to contribute to inequality in China, as its poor farmers face increasing competition from America s highly subsidized farms.

If so, the referendum s outcome should convince Erdoğan that the balance of power in the country has changed for good, and that the days of strong arm tactics by the secular establishment are gone forever.

The committee made up of seven men talk to you like you owe them something, in a very harsh way, because you need their approval.

These changes were strongly criticized by students because they do nothing to end the profit motive in the education system, nor do they fully satisfy the demand for free education.

Intelligence analyst Stratfor notes that the Indian and Pakistani election cycles have in fact made it difficult for politicians to make concessions when some of their electoral success has been due to an uncompromisingly hardline stance on Kashmir.

But it is also accepted that, as the right has always maintained, there is no partner ready to make real peace. In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The first Western heavy metal groups to become popular in the Soviet Union faced censorship after government accusations of neo nazism. (Some comically linked the KISS logo s double S to the Nazi stormtroopers insignia.)

Some see war as a way of resolving an increasingly deadlocked situation, shaking up a dysfunctional regional order whose main actors are not only at loggerheads, but are also incapable of resolving the legitimacy deficits of their respective regimes.

Though the ministry announcement made no mention of the type of art groups that they are targeting, the news is likely to send chills across the culture sector as it has already taken a hit from the government's austerity drive.