But Chavez's most significant achievement has been to trigger the awakening and empowerment of the majority.
According to Abu Tariq, his men "changed course 360 degrees" because of the Awakening.
Some two dozen sheikhs banded together late last year, in what they called the awakening.
Set in 1921, The Awakening is a portrait of England in the grip of post-war trauma.
The blast reportedly happened near a gathering of members of the pro-government Sunni militia, the Awakening Council.
But in a larger sense, the rally marked the awakening of a modern political consciousness in China.
We began to recognize that Sheikh Sattar was very critical to the awakening movement in its early stages.
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It edged out the Awakening movement, which received 17.1 percent , and the powerful Sunni Arab Iraqi Islamic Party, which got 15.9 percent.
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Much as I agree that the manner and timing were not good, the world should be thankful for the awakening call India delivered.
The awakening movement began over the past couple of years in Anbar province, a predominantly Sunni Arab region where militants once prevailed.
After prominent roles in films like The Town and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Rebecca Hall takes on her first leading role in period chiller The Awakening.
The Awakening Councils, drawn from among the country's Sunni Arabs, have been seen as a key factor in reducing violence across the country since 2006.
The most important of these was the Awakening, the name given to the cascading series of truces made by Sunni tribal leaders with their American occupiers.
Tribal members of the Awakening movement, with whom the police chief is allied, are trying to rest power from the Iraqi Islamic party, which controls the council.
The tensions between the Awakening movement, the U.S.-backed tribal groups that fought al Qaeda in Iraq, and the Iraqi Islamic Party had dominated attention in Anbar lately.
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The Awakening Councils, also known as the Sons of Iraq, are made up predominantly of Sunni Arab fighters who turned on Iraq's al Qaeda militants in late 2006.
The suicide attack is the latest in a flurry of strikes targeting the groups of predominantly U.S.-allied Sunni fighters known as the Awakening Councils or Sons of Iraq.
By the time Petraeus arrived, the Awakening had already begun.
But some of those who have adopted the Awakening and backed by some coalition officers want to integrate them into the police and army with their title as Awakening.
The province is also the birthplace of the Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, a Sunni militia that formed in 2007, largely made up of former insurgents who turned on al Qaeda.
Prior to filming The Awakening, Hall read Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicholson and "a lot of war poetry".
Because of the awakening movement, violence in the vast province of Anbar has dropped, and it has been secure enough for the U.S. military to plan to transfer the security lead to Iraqi forces.
The Awakening Councils, drawn largely from Sunni former insurgents, whose recruitment by the American army was instrumental in lessening sectarian violence during the American military surge in 2007, have not been adequately incorporated into the Iraqi forces.
Despite the dropping levels of violence in Iraq over recent months, the latest strikes reflect what appears to be a slight uptick of assaults from March to April on civilians, U.S. and Iraqi security forces, and the Awakening Councils.
Post says Anbar province, once one of the most violent and the base of operations for al Qaeda in Iraq, has settled down under the authority of the Awakening Councils and Sons of Iraq and can get by with fewer U.S. troops.
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Elsewhere in the country though, Shiite death squads that may or may not have ties to the pro-Iranian factions currently running the country are ruthlessly liquidating prominent tribal leaders and others associated with the movement in Anbar Province known as The Awakening.
In Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, a man walked into a restaurant and detonated his suicide vest, killing at least 15 people and wounding 13, according to an Interior Ministry official and Hamid al-Hais, the head of the Awakening Council in Anbar.
Those too wanted to infiltrate through the Awakening, but we became aware of this danger and knowing the background allowed us to interact with them, provide support, absorb them and pick up their payrolls and include them in the security forces based on the allocation and security conditions.
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