Even if they did, Mr Lukashenka has more than enough means to repress them.
He can respond to the pressure for change by trying to repress it, or by going with it.
These technologies should not empower -- these technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them.
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The Islamic militants behind the Taliban continue to repress women in northwest Pakistan.
Or perhaps the workers were simply fed up with low pay and stingy bosses, and were too numerous to repress.
It is also the intention of the Chavez regime to abolish private property and to repress independent groups in society.
In the north and north-east of the country, bases of Mr Thaksin's support, the movement is even harder to repress.
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Like Qaddafi, these leaders are determined to rule without legitimacy, and are willing to repress opponents, regardless of the consequences.
The novels showed her that the emotions and desires she was told to repress were natural and could even be beautiful and right.
Human rights groups consistently raised alarms that Chavez was using the judicial system as a political tool to repress the opposition and silence dissent.
Organised criminal bands that traffic drugs and the attempts to repress them have wreaked havoc in the region, with murder rates soaring in Mexico and Central America.
Technologies that should empower citizens are being used to repress them.
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Some of the recent spending in South America involves retooling armies that used to repress their own populations for new roles, such as peacekeeping or Amazonian surveillance.
Yes, she'd be married, but then she'd live only to repress herself for someone else's ego -- and what kind of message would that be for the children?
Demanding identification to register a domain likely riles privacy advocates, reducing the anonymity of online journalist or activist sites in two countries that happen to repress both of those groups.
As long as rich-country governments insist on imposing an unenforceable prohibition on cocaine consumption, Andean governments will continue to be faced with the thankless task of trying to repress market forces.
In the case of males it may be to repress social-emotional reciprocity and in the case of females the pressure may be the opposite to increase social-emotional reciprocity, because of social-cultural expectations.
The moment that Khamenei gave Ahmadinejad his full support and gave a green light to the Revolutionary Guards to repress the protesters, Khamenei tied his own fate to that of his president.
In their account of the failed coup that briefly toppled the president in April 2002, they show that the army's commanders rebelled when the president ordered them to repress a vast anti-government demonstration.
Now it is possible that, at some indeterminate future date, the Kremlin will act to repress the internet, impose draconian Chinese-style controls on its use, and crush burgeoning companies like Kupikupon and Yandex.
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Levels of violence obviously exceeding what is normal during peacetime and, especially, a government unleashing its full military might to repress a dissident threat call for the application of the law of war.
In research performed at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to interpret real vs. fake smiles, while holding a pencil in their mouths to repress the muscles that help us smile.
As it moves to repress growing opposition to clerical rule, the regime relies not on soldiers or uniformed police (many of whom sympathize with the protesters) but on the bullies of Hezbollah and the equally thuggish Revolutionary Guards.
At a time when jihadist regimes and forces throughout the Arab and Islamic world are using violence to repress Christians and other non-Muslims and force the full implementation of Sharia law, the notion that the Dar el-Islam or Muslim world is shrinking in Sudan is widely perceived as unacceptable.
Look, I think what Secretary Clinton -- what Secretary Clinton said about the IRGC obviously is -- they're a powerful force in the country that has taken actions to support Iran's nuclear program, taken actions to repress the universal rights of its citizens, and to facilitate its state sponsorship of terror, which led the Treasury Department just last week to tighten sanctions on the IRGC.
In any event, you must meet any boredom head-on and not try to avoid or repress it.
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They are as anxious to dispatch the despotic mullahs who repress them, and threaten us, as we are.
And I think you also have to look at the counterfactual, which is to say if you send a message that you can repress, brutalise, murder your own population without consequence, that actually leads to a very dangerous world rather than a more secure world.
That is, he argued that it made sense to surrender massive amounts of strategically critical land to a terrorist organization because Arafat and his associates would repress their people with an iron fist, unfettered by the rule of law and Palestinian human rights organizations.
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