It is not enough for him to plead, as sham reformers tend to, that his is a country in transition.
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Next week, it will not be enough for him to plead, as sham reformers tend to, that his is a country in transition: he must put an end to political harassment, and see that polling violations are punished.
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Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya urged all parties to "join the country's democratic transition, " in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Secessionist sentiment elsewhere in the country has largely disappeared, thanks in part to a transition to democracy.
If Greek firms have an instinctive feel for business trends in countries to their north, that is because their own country has undergone an almost equally rapid transition in recent memory.
We are ready to work together on the process of transition in this country.
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We stand with the Syrians who want to have a transition in their country so that Syria can be democratic and prosperous.
There was an AP story that quoted a number of soldiers that are happy that we have made a transition in a country where some of them served once, twice, three, four times.
On Friday, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to speed up the military transition in that country, meaning Afghan forces will take the lead in combat operations nationwide starting this spring.
And so the steps we have taken have been all in one direction, if you will, which is to put pressure on Syria to make clear that Assad has lost his legitimacy to rule and to further isolate his regime as we call on him to cease the violence and to begin a democratic transition in that country.
"Anything, anything to get that man out of the country and to have a safe transition in Syria, " Cameron told Al-Arabiya TV.
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He is a towering politician who has come to dominate his country at a time of transition, in much the same way that Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev did theirs.
The violence in Iraq will threaten the country's transition as long as other countries supply them with weapons of mass destruction.
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This time, Tunisians will go to the polls to participate in the first election a transition country has hosted since the Arab Spring began.
The country is going through a transition and is clearly in the process of decelerating.
"We need to start now, during the transition, making sure the country is moving in the direction President-elect Obama wants to take the country, " Johnsen says.
The coming vote is historic because it will mark the first transition between democratically elected governments in a country that has experienced three coups and frequent political instability.
And the Russians want to remind us that the day after the fall of a leader in country X, Y or Z, that the political transition, the political process goes on.
On September 1st, Mireya Moscoso will take over as the country's president, in what should be the second democratic transition since American troops invaded in 1989 to overthrow the military dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega.
The election will mark the country's first successful transition from one civilian government to another in its 66-year history.
South Africa, the Phillipines and a few others made the transition from authoritarian to free country without a long layover in totalitarianism.
Mr Zhou, who has served as governor of the People's Bank of China for the past decade, has reached the mandatory retirement age of 65, but the government is widely expected to keep him in office for at least another year in order to bring policy stability at time when the country is going through a once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
The country only began a transition to democracy after the death of Gen Franco in 1975.
As I recall, we made the transition from a net creditor country to a net debtor country in 1985.
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So the country is doing, I think, a remarkable job in terms of managing the transition.
And then of course we will complete that transition with Afghans taking full responsibility for the security of their country in 2014.
Last week's general elections appear to have paved the way for the first transition from one elected government to another in Pakistan - a country prone to military takeovers.
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