BERLIN The last illusions about what was called, until recently, the Arab Spring may have vanished. 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.

In 1990, a popular uprising against an entrenched military dictatorship brought the first real push towards sustained democracy.

27. The Government has taken steps on behalf of women who suffered greatly from violence during the military dictatorship.

Mention can be made of similar statements by President Cardoso concerning violations committed under the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Dictatorship.

That's dictatorship.

They concerned political opponents of the military dictatorship, from different social strata, most of them activists in the Chilean leftist parties.

Algeria s Dying Dictatorship

Debt, Dictatorship, and Democratization

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive. Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.

Since the demise of the military dictatorship five years earlier, the Ethiopian Government had taken measures to pave the way for the advancement of women.

As Chris said, I grew up in Nigeria with a whole generation in the '80s of students who were protesting a military dictatorship, which has finally ended.

A Daughter of Dictatorship and Democracy

The Silver Fox of Dictatorship and Democracy

Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority.

The Committee welcomes with satisfaction the efforts made by the State party to combat impunity in respect of crimes against humanity committed under the military dictatorship, and in particular

Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2006, may serve as an example of what the Brotherhood wants undivided power, including over the military. Likewise, the Egyptian army s hold on power, beginning in the 1950 s, resulted in a decades long military dictatorship.

One of the safest political systems of recent times was President Suharto s regime in Indonesia. Suharto came to power in 1966, establishing a quasi military dictatorship and encouraging Indonesians to enrich themselves.

In the case of democratic transitions, a success nearby often helps at home. Either country, or both, could offer Libya successful transition models, erecting an important obstacle to military dictatorship or civil war.

And so it s really it's really how suddenly, you know, this was made in 1997, which is the time of Abacha the military dictatorship, the worst part of Nigerian history, this post colonial history.

(c) The repeal in 2003 of executive decree No. 1581 01, which required the automatic rejection of requests for extradition in cases involving serious and flagrant violations of human rights under the military dictatorship.

That was exactly what happened in the case of Saddam's dictatorship.

Fundamentally, all power is in the hands of a cruel dictatorship.

First, dictatorship itself is ugly and unacceptable second, secular dictatorship excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system. We have considerable experience of this in the Middle East.

Dictatorship can be summed up by shut up! , democracy by keep talking .

But we cannot accept open and brazen dictatorship in the United Nations.

Mr. Luxton (Member of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands) said that, while today's Argentine Government might be democratic, its stance towards his country had not changed significantly since the military dictatorship of 1982, save for the fact that overt military aggression did not seem to be on the agenda.

The President of Belarus had created a dictatorship in the heart of Europe.

Was Morsi s ouster a classic counterrevolution in the guise of a military coup? Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt s economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?

And the third, democratic choice in Muslim majority societies has been relegated to a political choice, meaning political parties in many of these societies ask people to vote for them as the democratic party, but then the other parties ask them to vote for them as the military party wanting to rule by military dictatorship.

The last thing we should do is to accept dictatorship here in this Hall.

At other times, like Stalin, he believes that Russia s power requires a strong hand what he calls his dictatorship of law. The problem, as Khodorkovsky s conviction demonstrated, is that dictatorship usually seems to be trumping law.

We are trying to carry out reforms and rebuild what the dictatorship destroyed in Iraq.

And Crassus will move in and save Rome from the slave army... by assuming dictatorship.

This regime cannot survive in the long term with a political crisis such as the one it now faces. Continued crackdowns would result in a military dictatorship, while an accommodation with the protest movement would produce some kind of consensual semi democratic government.

He wrote a book called From Dictatorship to Democracy with 81 methodologies for non violent resistance.

Conversely, rule of law that was neither democratic nor respectful of human rights was a dictatorship.

As Prime Minister Rony Smarth put it, 15 October marked the Haitian people s rejection of dictatorship .

Nostalgic for the dictatorship and profiting from the crisis, they are vigorously active in the field.

In other times, the Greeks paid dearly for their No to Nazism and their No to military dictatorship. Nothing would be sadder than to see them also have to pay for last Sunday s No a farcical simulation of those earlier noble acts of defiance.

The forces of resistance are too limited, while the military a key tool of social advancement for the poor remains in the hands of the dictatorship. The rebellion could not succeed by itself from the start, terrible and bloody repression was to be expected.

If the executive committee usurps legislative and judicial powers, then we are on the road to dictatorship.

We recognize that the transition we are going through from dictatorship to democracy is fraught with many challenges.

The dictatorship that ruled Iraq in the past tried to silence that voice by sowing death and destruction.

Iraq's experience offers many lessons and outcomes, both from the period of its struggle against dictatorship and today.