They have little slogans, like Salvation through Starvation.

This now needs to move beyond slogans to meaningful action on the ground.

Obama s slogans are examples of dead metaphors they are not part of an overall conceptual scheme.

Creativity is the meme maker that puts slogans on our t shirts and phrases on our lips.

Peace was not established by means of slogans, but rather through a concrete analysis of the situation.

On entering GuangAn International Convention and Exhibition Center, slogans were absent from the venue, and there were no tea cups not even a bottle of mineral water was present.

Traffic on the roads surrounding the venue remained normal. There were no balloons or slogans at the venue, nor a red carpet displays of plants and fresh flowers were absent as well.

All of a sudden, NGOs were not only standing in the streets, crying their slogans, but they were taking them into the negotiations, partly because they represented the victims of these weapons.

One Jewish professor at a Munich university actually compared Müntefering s language to Nazi slogans. Entrepreneurs and managers swallow their anger and show their disapproval only by silently speeding up their relocation decisions.

But it was done using slogans, not a program of change that ordinary Russians could understand and embrace. All we have are endless arguments, not practical alternatives to discuss and decide upon.

But Indian politicians interests appear to lie elsewhere. After all, with the rate of functional literacy at only 37.5 , they can easily manipulate the votes of uneducated people with alcohol, pop slogans, and intimidation.

They can destroy but not create. It is worth noting that the people who went into the streets of Cairo and Damascus calling for change were not shouting the slogans of Al Qaeda or supporting its agenda.

It is impossible to ensure implementation of policies by taking showy and impractical actions and shouting slogans. Without practical actions, we can t ensure proper implementation of policies only by holding meetings and issuing documents. We must do our works in a practical manner.

It is a party with no coherent program, but rather a compendium of popular and nationalist slogans. It is a testimony of the responsibility and maturity of the German people that this miscellaneous alliance of the disaffected only attracted 12 of the vote.

Belief in a government answerable to the people and in a transparent market purged of insider dealing no longer guides government policy. Instead, the ideals for which we struggled appear as slogans invoked by those who want to protect their vested interests.

The first time, they gained a governing plurality, put their slogans into practice, and failed to maintain their popular support. In the four ministries the Islamists ran, they imposed restrictions on female staff members, triggering widespread protests that ultimately forced the four ministers to resign.

Today, as low oil prices and Western sanctions bite, he is making them poor and nearly universally despised. On March 1, the day Nemtsov was to lead his protest, tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets with slogans like Nemtsov is love, Putin is war.

Parliament s functioning has become, to most Indians, an embarrassment and, to many, an abomination. People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and provoke adjournments indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.

On December 11, another rally was held at site of the murder, and moved into the very center of Moscow, Manezhnaya Square, just outside the Kremlin s walls. The crowd began to chant nationalist slogans, and then proceeded to beat up passersby who did not look Slavic.

But any examination of the protesters slogans and demands clearly indicates otherwise. The protests are much more about political and economic freedom than about material needs, reflecting a keen awareness that such needs are merely a symptom and consequence of the absence of political and economic freedom.

Whenever the top leadership in Beijing uttered such slogans, they became the rallying cry of the bureaucracy. The party s massive propaganda machine went into overdrive and blanketed the country with a publicity blitz that would make the most extravagant Madison Avenue advertising campaign look like child s play.

The second thing that Xi and his colleagues need to do is to follow up with specific policies and actions that can bolster the credibility of their declared goals. Political slogans, however high sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.

After the September 11 attack in Benghazi, frustrated Libyans poured into the streets shouting anti militia slogans. Ten days later, protesters overran the base of Ansar al Sharia, the Islamist militia suspected of masterminding the attack, as part of a sweep of raids on militia compounds throughout the city.

Internet companies may, more than most, hide their true motives behind ersatz, democratic sounding slogans, but in the end they are advertising products like any other. In advertising or self promotion, the choice of words is determined by customer expectations, not by managers philosophy, as they mostly have none.

China appears to have perfected this form of government over the last decade. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in response to rising public demand for social justice, has devised numerous slogans, such as governing for the people, building a harmonious society, balanced development, scientific development, and so on.

Their favored slogans Take back our country or Make America great again invoke a past when neither the New Deal nor the expansion of civil rights disturbed the peace of upstanding white Christians. These hard right Republicans, too, prize authenticity indeed, they prize it above anything else (hence the appeal of Donald Trump).

MADRID Back in 1996, Binyamin Netanyahu won a general election by mobilizing large constituencies against then Prime Minister Shimon Peres s alleged intention to divide Jerusalem. Nearly two decades later, Netanyahu remains committed to old, vacuous slogans about a united Jerusalem a conviction that could, yet again, unravel the Israel Palestine peace process.

If PiS s populist slogans become policy, government spending is likely to expand, which will exacerbate Poland s already weak fiscal position and consequently trigger inflationary expectations. Worse, boosting social spending will contribute little to resolving the country s staggering 17.5 rate of unemployment most of it structural while any hope of quick euro adoption will be dashed.

Another casualty was the legitimacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For two decades, Khamenei deceptively cultivated an image of an impartial and magnanimous guide, but his defiant public support for Ahmadinejad exposed him as a petty, partisan autocrat. Among the unprecedented slogans of last summer s street protests were thunderous chants of Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is void!

Some Italians responded violently some Italian and Romanian politicians, eager to offer quick and tough solutions, made scandalous statements that echoed the xenophobic and totalitarian slogans of the past. We are encountering, not without irony, a kind of grotesque reverse of the national pride seen when cultural and sporting stars are appropriated by the state and presented as part of the collective patrimony.

Another casualty was the legitimacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For two decades, Khamenei deceptively cultivated an image of an impartial and magnanimous guide, but his defiant public support for Ahmadinejad exposed him as a petty, partisan autocrat. Among the unprecedented slogans of last summer s street protests were thunderous chants of Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is void!

This can succeed only if we engage in vigorous exchange with each other in order to create a kind of mutual respect for these different views. The advancing force of Islamophobia in Europe and the US, with its attempt to reduce Islam s complex and varied history to a few demagogic slogans, is the kind of utterly ignorant stupidity there s no better description of it on which democratic societies founder.

But some here wanted to activate the ICC and exploit the question of Darfur as a mere pretext, in spite of knowing that such exploitation of the issues of concern to people and profiting from crises and conflicts simply for political gain and bargaining has nothing to do with justice and humanity, let alone the preservation of international legitimacy and international peace and security, and other such slogans and titles.

Because a parliamentary system usually results in predictable outcomes, with the ruling majority typically getting its way, India s opposition MPs (and any government MPs who disagree with the cabinet s position on a specific issue) prefer disruption to debate. And this is greeted on both sides of the aisle with a shrug, as if intentionally drowning out one s colleagues with shouted slogans were just another parliamentary maneuver, as valid as a filibuster or an adjournment motion.