Centuries of foreign colonialism followed by decades of homegrown authoritarian governments.

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The British colonial administration finally acquiesced, creating a country out of Muslim majority areas.

The room to maneuver he carved from the Warsaw Pact with the support of the West brought no benefits to the Romanian people.

India is set for more coalition rule.

Ceausescu's rule demonstrates this.

His reign must be obliterated.

Your reign will be disastrous and brief.

Too many of the ex colonies, rejecting their colonial heritage, turned to Russia and communism.

In certain respects, he has been a success.

Thankfully, his reign won't last forever.

This is, of course, a deeply colonial sentiment, and the legacy of colonialism works against Israel in another way, too. As was true of Apartheid era South Africa, Israel reminds people of the sins of Western imperialism.

Ethnicity or language hardly seem to be a factor in the secessions (one recognized, the other not) of Eritrea from Ethiopia and the Republic of Somaliland'' from Somalia.

This is, of course, a deeply colonial sentiment, and the legacy of colonialism works against Israel in another way, too.

When a state has more than one colonial past, its future is vulnerable.

Slow growth has silenced the monetarists on the ECB s Governing Council.

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A great earthquake occurred in Rome during the reign of Tiberius.

The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty a two way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn t function honestly even if it wanted to.

But his rule was also brutally repressive.

Vladimir Putin s rule in Russia illustrates this outcome.

Medvedev s presidency will inevitably be measured by this case.

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The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub Saharan Africa. The colonial powers arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.

We have fought wars to preserve colonial domination and wars to end it.

The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub Saharan Africa.

So Pakistanis have grimly accepted military rule as their destiny.

So Pakistanis grimly learned to accept military rule as their destiny.

Hu Jintao s rule is not a return to the Mao Zedong era.

Military rule in Algeria continues de facto to this day.

For decades, his personal rule imposed a false unity on Yugoslavia.

But it was no single accomplishment that made Duisenberg's term in office a success.

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Chairman Mao s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.

The Prime Minister of Nepal is the head of the Government.

The African political landscape is, of course, dotted with leaders whose rule stretches well over two decades.

He is rumoured to be preparing to put forward another crucial constitutional provision that would extend his rule even further.

Saddam s rule was only the most brutal in a long line of Sunni regimes.

Neither the best armed government nor the richest can long survive unless broad sections of their population accept its rule as legitimate.

So the right s turn in government was followed by years of stagnation and exploding unemployment.

Without full and equal responsibility there can be no lasting governance.

Some call this Parisianism rule by an intellectual elite closed to the world outside itself.

Solidarity veterans believed that the dictatorship s demise would be followed by their own reign.

Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain.

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