(n.) A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(3) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(4) After the collapse of communism, industrial production migrated to Asia, and China in particular.
(5) Fresh flowers have been placed on the grave of the exiled Polish prime minister Władysław Sikorski, buried in the town after he died in an air crash in Gilbratar in 1943.His remains were removed to Poland in 1993 after the fall of communism.
(6) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(7) As a political idea it is at least as old as Eduard Bernstein's bid in the last decade of the 19th century to detach the German Social Democrats from marxian communism by taking the parliamentary road.
(8) Some former communist countries, known in the jargon as "countries in transition", were allowed to chose a different date because after the collapse of communism many closed heavy industries.
(9) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
(10) Romney arrived on Monday in Gdansk, Solidarity's birthplace, where Soviet communism was punctured 32 years ago.
(11) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(12) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
(13) In Uncommon Danger, the representatives of communism and what Zaleshoff calls "moderate radicalism" but Kenton himself would probably think of as basic human decency are pitted against the agents of capital and fascism: Balterghen, Saridza and their many cronies.
(14) Poland remains one of Europe’s most staunchly Catholic nations, although the clergy’s influence has been steadily eroded by more than two decades of democratisation and market reforms since the 1989 fall of communism.
(15) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.
(16) Silicon Valley’s flavor is, of course, thoroughly technological, embracing tech advances to achieve abundance in a manner that bears some resemblance to “ fully automated luxury communism ”.
(17) So pervasive and persistent was the regime’s reach that a law to open Albania’s secret police files was passed only this year, nearly 25 years after the fall of communism.
(18) Members of the leftwing group Plan C deploy the slogan “Luxury for all” in their agitations, and a sharply-designed Tumblr, Luxury Communism , trumpets sympathetic ideas.
(19) As a recently published biography reveals , the archbishop's globetrotting adventures began in 1981 when he and his wife, Caroline, joined the Eastern European Bible Mission and embarked on a trip to help Christians persecuted under communism.
(20) The west has long since given up its cold war rhetoric against Communism.
Junta
Definition:
(n.) A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Palme D’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has said he does not want his new film to be screened in in his home country, for fear of the reaction of the ruling military junta.
(2) The drafting processes will start again, with the junta picking a new 21-member committee.
(3) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
(4) #18ogr #Syntagma #Greece October 18, 2012 1.03pm BST This photo from Syntagma Square shows "Junta HQ" sprayed on the steps of the Parliament building, alongside a man selling gas masks (with thanks to Asteris Masouras , who is also tweeting from the scene).
(5) On Tuesday the junta released so-called "propaganda" footage of five detainees, one of whom was Jatuporn.
(6) The announcement came as Alaa Abd El Fattah , the jailed Egyptian revolutionary who has become a rallying figure for those opposed to the junta, had his appeal against detention refused by a military court.
(7) An unrepentant admirer of the military junta in power until 1974, Michaloliakos, who founded Golden Dawn in the early 1980s, stands accused of running a paramilitary operation that systematically attacked migrants, leftists and gay people.
(8) On Thursday activists camping outside St Paul's Cathedral in London conducted a live video link with anti-regime protesters in Syria, while plans are under way for a solidarity rally on Saturday in support of Egyptians being held by the junta.
(9) The new complementary constitutional declaration transfers some powers reserved for the president to the ruling military junta, the supreme council of the armed forces (Scaf), causing the Muslim Brotherhood to doubt whether the transfer of power will happen as expected at the end of the month.
(10) There has been no change in the past five years,” he said, when asked about sweeping political reforms implemented by the quasi-civilian government that took over from the military junta.
(11) The junta has spoken of holding elections in 2015, but no date has been set.
(12) Opponents of the Burmese junta, which has ruled with an iron fist since 1962, say Yettaw's stunt has been exploited to keep Aung San Suu Kyi out of the public eye during the elections.
(13) Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
(14) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(15) The official, noting that the junta had been in power for more than four decades, said: "I have to stress we're going into this with eyes wide open.
(16) While the junta has indicated that it considers almost any criticism of its actions to be potentially destabilising, such language usually refers to cases of criticism of the monarchy.
(17) "Now everyone knows how each other feels and that they do not want the country and everything to be damaged further," he was filmed saying – in reference, it seems, to the junta's desire that detainees reflect on their political standpoints.
(18) Cherry says the junta’s “request” that media outlets determine their own limits when reporting on the military government is more damaging.
(19) Each Sputnik hub will employ between 30 and 80 staff members, and an expanded team of 100 will reportedly work in the office in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where a new government that Russian state media decried as a “fascist junta” has adopted an association agreement with the European Union and is fighting a simmering conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the country’s east .
(20) Deep down, the junta knows that its power rests not on legitimacy but on the barrel of guns and the threat of arbitrary detention that is increasingly turning Thailand to Juntaland.