Sentence examples for powerful security forces from inspiring English sources

He had been outspoken in challenging the role of Iran's powerful security forces.

They also retain the support of the powerful security forces and the elite Revolutionary Guards.

The Arab spring's shift from civil protest to jihadist turmoil has spurred powerful security forces to clamp down on opponents once again.

One of the main reasons why President Abdurrahman Wahid was removed from office last year is that the powerful security forces had lost faith in his ability to hold the remainder of Indonesia together.

"One reason the lie has to be big," Mr. Snyder said, "is that people will feel that if their leaders must have a lot of confidence to tell a lie that big, they are either crazy or they have a powerful security force behind them".

And it delivers a setback to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the powerful security force which controls a vast industrial empire in Iran.

It will be dominated by tribesmen of the East Bank, who still dominate the security forces and the state sector, not those of Palestinian descent.Jordanians argue over whether King Abdullah or his all-powerful security forces are to blame.

I don't want to give anyone any bad ideas, but with such a propaganda apparatus, backed up by an all-powerful security force, seventy-per-cent approval should be a minimum!" Two great traditions have survived in Russia: the power of the secret police and the use of allegory as a means of truthtelling.

There is certainly an avid audience, inside and outside China, for any firm information about Mr. Zhou, whose grimacing features came to embody China's increasingly powerful domestic security forces.

He is believed to have the backing of the powerful Revolutionary Guards security force, as well as the tacit support of Khamenei, whose powers outrank those of the elected president but who normally steers clear of day-to-day politics.

He is still backed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic republic's powerful supreme leader, its security forces, its state-run media and a parliament dominated by fellow conservatives.