#regime

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. ↗

— Ed Markey

#corrupt #groups #human #human rights #hundreds

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#gone #kings #perfect #regiment #shadows

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#continuing #cuba #dissidents #focus #freeing

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#beauty #emphasis #forced #grow #grow up

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'. ↗

— Stjepan Mesic

#asked #create #did #greater #milosevic

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#authoritarian #countries #crowd #enthusiastic #especially

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#affairs #bring #britain #call #change

Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#crisis #engage #financial #financial crisis #fortunately

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part