In fact, Conservatives have ruled Britain for 70 out of the last 100 years, almost the same proportion of this century that the Communists ruled Russia.

We remember having seen the left govern without drama.

A series of short term prime ministers began a pattern of huge government outlays.

After all, they governed together with the PRM from1992 to 1996.

Action must also be taken to end the impunity with which the Burmese generals have ruled.

Only money ruled in America, it was thought, so that meant that the Jews ruled.

In China s view, Patten s position was hypocritical, even offensive, given that the British had ruled Hong Kong autocratically.

The harmonious relationship of his father and uncle ended, and a struggle for power between them ensued.

Long used to wielding power, the military had become increasingly wary of Mubarak s efforts to groom his son as his successor.

The US and Latin American countries are all conquest societies, in which Europeans ruled over multi racial societies.

Traditional war is a man s game tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages.

The petition called for the monarchy to work within constitutionally prescribed limits, and for an independent judiciary.

Rejected while they were still fascist dictatorships, their candidacies were accepted when their regimes changed.

Indigenous groups constitute 62 of Bolivia s population, and those with mixed blood another 30 , but for 500 years Bolivians had been ruled by colonial powers and their descendants.

The stated goal of the new alliance was to establish what Kaczynski calls the Fourth Republic (implying a constitutional break with the supposedly compromised post 1989 Third Republic). The Kaczynskis want to destroy the corrupt system composed of careerist politicians, post communists, former secret service functionaries, and criminal organizations, who, according to the twins, have ruled Poland since 1989.

Having enjoyed virtual self rule since then, they will fiercely resist falling back under the sway of the Pashtuns, who have ruled the country for most of its history.

Westerners used to pluralistic democracy may find it hard to understand what a potentially huge shift this will be in a country accustomed to military rule for over 50 years.

The Kaczynskis want to destroy the corrupt system composed of careerist politicians, post communists, former secret service functionaries, and criminal organizations, who, according to the twins, have ruled Poland since 1989.

Indeed, for nearly three centuries, from 950 to 663 BC, black pharaohs and queens such as Tii from the land of Kush today s black Sudan ruled Egypt.

The right in Poland and Hungary used the communitarian rhetoric of Christian conservatism, but once in power, they reverted to their original programs and governed like neo liberals.

It is like the old Chinese concept of the mandate of heaven emperors were said to rule because they had it, and when they were overthrown, it was because they had lost it.

Unlike votes in neighbouring Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where three men have ruled for over two decades each, there will be no 90 per cent plus turnouts and unopposed landslides.

Military rule and putsches stemming from factional infighting among generals were the norm until the early 1970 s, when university students overthrew a military dictatorship and opened up democratic space.

Though it was Stalin who used the phrase rootless cosmopolitans to describe unwanted Jews, anti Semites believed that Jews were natural Bolsheviks and probably pulled the strings in the Soviet Union, too.

At the time of his birth in 1852, Japan was an isolated, pre industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa Shogunate and the daimyo, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains.

The Kurds who, like the Shi a, were victimized by Saddam for decades quietly cling to their de facto independence in the north, making sure that they will never again come under Arab rule.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt, who hosted the peace conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after the Russo Japanese War, argued for the return of Manchuria to Manchu ruled China and for a balance of power in East Asia.