It is worth noting that these arguments in defense of civil liberties are thoroughly pragmatic; they rely on psychological principles and empirical observations to illustrate the instability and imprudence of oppressive governance (see Steinberg 2010b).
And when you're walking through a city working overtime to bring back its own soul, a kind of Utopia grows in her garden, and a flower springs up in your mind as you experience what it means to stand up to oppressive governance and corporate greed.
However, as I watch what is taking place in Egypt on the global main stage my mind continually returns to the young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi who on December 17 , 2010poured gasoline on his body then lit himself on fire in protest of oppressive governance practices in his native Tunisia.
No repeat of BurundiKagame — who has been described as a strongman for his oppressive brand of governance — has been at the forefront of Rwandan politics since 1994, when his party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), put an end to the genocide by Hutu extremists that left 800,000 people dead.
Poor governance, weak institutions, oppressive rule and a failure within parts of Islam to work out a sensible relationship between religion and Government have combined to create countries which are simply unprepared for the modern world.
In Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Horkheimer and Adorno argued that the celebration of reason by thinkers of the 18th-century Enlightenment had led to the development of technologically sophisticated but oppressive and inhumane modes of governance, exemplified in the 20th century by fascism and totalitarianism.
The poorest country in the Western hemisphere has a history of colonial interference, oppressive dictators, natural disasters, corruption, poor governance, violence and human rights abuses.
The poorest country in the Western hemisphere has a history of colonial interference, oppressive dictators, natural disasters, corruption, poor governance, violence... "Haiti - Children of Chaos" Telethon The two places might be almost ten thousand kilometres apart, but Romanians opened their hearts and their wallets to stricken Haiti in a telethon organised by UNICEF and Realitatea TV station.
Executives have to suffer the slings and arrows of intrusive media coverage, the oppressive tedium of "box-ticking" corporate-governance codes, the threats of activist investors and short sellers, and the scrutiny of single-minded political campaigners.And what do companies get in return?
Their governance, however, was seen as oppressive.
Although the nation's founding was in the interest of self-determination as a result of a slave revolution in 1804, Haitian participation in governance has often been prevented by oppressive dictatorships or occupying forces.
