Sentence examples for arroyo from inspiring English sources
noun
A dry creek or stream bed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
Inevitably, however, crackdowns on extremist Muslim groups, not just in the Philippines but in some other South-East Asian countries too, are being seen not always accurately as part of a global battle against Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.Mrs Arroyo insists that the 650 American soldiers to be deployed in the Philippines as part of six-month-long exercises will "not do combat".
Despite disappointing early results for Mrs Arroyo (the daughter of a previous president), her allies should keep their big majority in Congress's lower house, while the opposition will still control the Senate.Academics have been discussing for years whether the third wave of democratisation has passed.
Agreeing the details of how the two countries' soldiers will work together seems to have been complicated, and to have delayed the start of the exercises by a day, to January 31st.It is understandable that Mrs Arroyo should want to portray the American involvement in limited terms.
Though nothing like on the scale of the 1960s and 1970s, the problem refuses to go away.However, it is unclear what reasons Mrs Arroyo has for launching a fresh assault on the NPA now—other than cynical ones.
The president followed it with a visit to the Vatican on June 26th, to receive the pope's blessing for her recent abolition of the death penalty.But just as she is abolishing judicial executions, Mrs Arroyo risks giving tacit support to extra-judicial killings by the security forces sent to root out the NPA.
Mrs Arroyo has begun appointing a new cabinet, starting with a decent new secretary of finance.
GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, the president of the Philippines, is keen to dispel the notion that her country is about to become the second front in America's "war against terrorism".
The need to keep the army sweet has discouraged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from ordering proper investigations into hundreds of killings, allegedly by soldiers and police, of opposition figures from trade unionists to priests.
BY THE tumultuous standards of the past few months, it has been a good week for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the embattled president of the Philippines.
No doubt the men in khaki were acting for the best, but, like Cory Aquino before her, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo takes office with the uncomfortable knowledge that the armed forces helped put her in power.
On the side, they played an unofficial political role by bullying voters and intimidating rival candidates: it is widely believed that the Ampatuans' army was instrumental in generating votes for the winner of the disputed 2004 presidential election, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
