overthrow
... continued until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922, Egypt acquired full sovereignty with the overthrow of the British-backed monarchy in 1952. The completion of the Aswan High Dam in ...
www.exxun.com/Egypt/a_fg.html
overthrow
none; note - following the September 1969 military overthrow of the Libyan government, the Revolutionary Command Council replaced the existing constitution with the Constitutional Proclamation in December 1969; in March 1977, Libya adopted ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/d_gv.html
overthrow
... I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
overthrow
... the capital. The Courts continued to expand militarily throughout much of southern Somalia and threatened to overthrow the TFG in Baidoa. Ethiopian and TFG forces, concerned over links between some CIC factions ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/a_fg.html
overthrow
... Yemen became independent in November 1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and became a republic with the overthrow of the theocratic Imamate in 1962; South Yemen became independent on 30 November 1967 (from ...
www.exxun.com/Yemen/d_gv.html
overthrown
... the Araucanian Indians were completely subjugated. A three-year-old Marxist government of Salvador ALLENDE was overthrown in 1973 by a military coup led by Augusto PINOCHET, who ruled until a freely ...
www.exxun.com/Chile/a_fg.html
overthrown
... as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and the shah was forced into exile. Conservative clerical forces established a theocratic system of ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/a_fg.html
overthrown
... 1965, and his Securitate police state became increasingly oppressive and draconian through the 1980s. CEAUSESCU was overthrown and executed in late 1989. Former Communists dominated the government until 1996 when they were ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/a_fg.html
overturn
... A peaceful mass protest "Orange Revolution" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
overturns
Supreme Court (serves as appeals court for people's and provincial courts but rarely overturns verdicts of lower courts; judges are nominated by the General Council of Courts and approved by the ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/d_gv.html
overuse
overuse of pastures and subsequent soil erosion attributable to population pressures; desertification; deforestation of tropical rain forest, in response to both international demand for tropical timber and to domestic use as fuel ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/b_mp.html
overuse
deforestation; soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides; air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions
www.exxun.com/Colombia/b_mp.html
overuse
... picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms; pollution in the Caspian Sea; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/b_mp.html
overuse
deforestation (overuse of wood for fuel and lack of alternatives); contaminated water (with human and animal wastes, agricultural runoff, and industrial effluents); wildlife conservation; vehicular emissions
www.exxun.com/Nepal/b_mp.html
overuse
... in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain led to overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, which have left the land poisoned and ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/a_fg.html
overvalue
... economy suffers from serious macroeconomic imbalances - including rising inflation, fiscal deficits, multiple official exchange rates that overvalue the Burmese kyat, a distorted interest rate regime, unreliable statistics, and an inability to reconcile ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
overvalued
... and a boom in tourism-related construction. The Seychelles rupee was allowed to depreciate in 2006 after being overvalued for years and fell by 10% in the first 9 months of 2007
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/e_ec.html
overvalued
... a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate, hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/e_ec.html
overview
... making water rationing a necessity in 2007. Economy of the area administered by Turkish Cypriots Economy - overview: The Turkish Cypriot economy has roughly 30% of the per capita GDP of the south ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/e_ec.html
overview
... old, just about one-third of the 13.7-billion-year age estimated for the universe Geographic overview The surface of the earth is approximately 70.9% water and 29.1% land. The former portion ...
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
overwhelming
... conservatives have attempted to close ranks under the United Front of Principlists; the IIPF has repeatedly complained that the overwhelming majority of its candidates have been unfairly disqualified from the 2008 elections
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
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