In effect, this gave Hitler dictatorial powers.

After the 1933 rise of Salazar's dictatorial Estado Novo regime, suppression of the party grew.

Baathism was dictatorial and oppressive often brutally so but it protected minorities and the secular elites.

Continuing fear of political Islam in much of the West explains past support for dictatorial regimes.

If there was to be a dictatorial coup, would Yeltsin be its victim or its leader?

Children were a dictatorial instrument of the party and were given leadership in torture and executions.

And because many of our governments are quite dictatorial, they need really to have the army clobber the opposition.

On 7 January of 49 BC, the senate passed a senatus consultum ultimum , which vested Pompey with dictatorial powers.

The conspiracy would have had Feijó assume dictatorial powers and immediately enact the constitutional amendment, thus bypassing the Senate entirely.

Chile Before John Paul II's pilgrimage to Latin America, during a meeting with reporters, he criticised Augusto Pinochet's regime as dictatorial .

The center left coalition party Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia said goodbye to 20 years of ruling in post dictatorial Chile.

Delgado broke with the Portuguese national Catholic regime, enrolling in the 1958 presidential election which was called by dictatorial then Prime Minister Salazar.

The ARA was the armed branch of the PCP that would be responsible in the 1970s for some military action against the dictatorial regime.

They were unaware that the goal of the coup leaders was the creation of a dictatorial republic rather than a presidential or parliamentary republic.

The dissemination of Positivist ideology among young officers brought further complications, as Positivism opposed the monarchy under the belief that a dictatorial republic would bring improvements.

Made illegal after a coup in the late 1920s, the PCP played a major role in the opposition to the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar.

Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone (born January 21, 1928) is a retired Argentine general who served as dictatorial President of Argentina from July 1, 1982 to December 10, 1983.

Likewise, in 22 BC there was a food shortage in Rome, which sparked panic, while many urban plebs called for Augustus to take on dictatorial powers to personally oversee the crisis.

The soldiers of the Red Army, and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union who armed and fed them, allowed their dictatorial masters to commit crimes nbsp and committed crimes themselves.

I wonder if there is going to be any protest but I don t think a semi dictatorial leader would allow something as democratic as protests to take place during an international event.

The dictatorial administration put political pressure onto news organs, and in São Paulo it took as its main target the daily O Estado de S. Paulo, a major supporter for the 1932 revolution.

The blatantly off handed, treasonous, and unconstitutional attacks by General Pervez Musharraf on the judiciary, media, and people of Pakistan have brought the true dictatorial character of the present regime into the lime light.

I fully support and want to encourage them, and every fiber of my body will be resisting against the KCC's anachronistic oppression of the media which would be more befitting of a dictatorial era.

He was captured by the city's then dictatorial government and placed in a prison camp, where he met Vulko, also a prisoner of the state, who taught Orin the language and ways of the Atlanteans.

The National Salvation Junta (Junta de Salvação Nacional, ) was a group of military officers designated to maintain the government of Portugal in April 1974, after the Carnation Revolution had overthrown the Estado Novo dictatorial regime.

In 1259 Martino della Torre was elected Capitano del Popolo by members of the guilds he took the city by force, expelled his enemies, and ruled by dictatorial powers, paving streets, digging canals, successfully taxing the countryside.

The purpose was to establish the political stability desperately needed after the exhausting civil wars by a de facto dictatorial regime within the constitutional framework of the Roman Republic as an alternative to the hated early Roman Kingdom.

In fact, from January 25 the whole world followed the course of the conflict in Egypt, awaiting the fall of then President Hosni Mubarak, which finally arrived on 11 February after weeks of protest and 32 years of dictatorial government.

Not only did they effectively present themselves as champions of minority rights they also provoked the German Marxists into demonstrating a dictatorial intolerance which was a factor in preventing the British labor movement from following the Marxist direction indicated by such leaders as H. M.Hyndman .

But important events elsewhere became the focus for news organizations the 1932 revolution, when São Paulo tried to recover the power lost to Vargas the World War II (1939 to 1945), and the Estado Novo (the Vargas dictatorial period that extended from 1937 to 1945).

The defenders of classical liberalism were also defenders of political freedom, but this strain called neoliberalism defended essentially the non intervention of the state in the economy, without a particular preoccupation with political freedom and came shamelessly to support dictatorial governments like Pinochet s in Chile , says Prado.

Although there were several dictatorial eunuchs throughout the Ming, such as Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, and Liu Jin, excessive tyrannical eunuch power did not become evident until the 1590s when the Wanli Emperor increased their rights over the civil bureaucracy and granted them power to collect provincial taxes.

José García Hamilton, an Argentinean scholar of Bolívar, believes that the Liberator was consistently dictatorial In his Jamaica letter (1815) and in the constituent convention of Angostura (1819), Bolívar postulated a political system with a life term presidency, a hereditary chamber made up of the generals who had achieved independence...

Slowly however, the wear and tear of years of dictatorial power that have not slowed the repression, even after the defeat of the leftist guerrillas, plus the inability to deal with the economic crises of the period and popular pressure, made an opening policy inevitable, which from the regime side was led by Generals Geisel and Golbery.

In a country with a dictatorial legacy, a case which, if not understood with proper legal and social touches, can create a jurisprudence that is dangerous to the exercise of democratic rights, won after years of censorship and oppression, should be analysed with extraordinary caution. Non governmental organization Artigo 19, which specializes in the right to freedom of expression, has followed the case closely and posts court documents related to the case on its website.