Seventeen years of hard military dictatorship followed.
"What Europeans mean and understand by 'Asia's rise' is the emergence of a global economic and demographic threat, societies that face severe difficulties and suffering from dictatorship to natural disaster, and an increasing political influence that is strictly limited to individual Asian countries like China, India and Japan," the authors wrote.
However, in 2013, reports surfaced that staffers were still struggling with "severe restrictions in a press-averse dictatorship where man-on-the-street reporting remains a foreign concept".
Our disease is dictatorship and you have very severe symptoms and complications: there is injustice, people become frustrated, or fanatics".
Not having the man of your dreams is nothing compared to poverty, fleeing from warfare, living under dictatorships, chronic illness, among other severe problems.
The abuses were especially severe in the first few years of the dictatorship.
Dictatorship, revolution and counterrevolution usually cause severe physical and psychological damage to the victims and other participants.
Ms. Hirsi Ali's early years, by contrast, consisted of dictatorship, war, patriarchy, genital cutting, confinement and beatings so severe that she once ended up in a hospital with a fractured skull.
He steered Jornal do Brasil through the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, trying to maintain an independent political line despite the severe restrictions imposed by the regime's censorship and the persistent persecution of political opponents.
The relationship has also faced severe criticism, however, and not only from those Libyans who suffered under the Gaddafi dictatorship or the human rights groups who had been documenting the abuses perpetrated by his regime over four decades.
Kirchner served as president from 2003-2007, bringing Argentina out of severe economic crisis and encouraging judicial changes that set in motion dozens of human rights trials involving hundreds of dictatorship-era figures who had previously benefited from an amnesty.
