The Iranian regime will do all it can to help keep the Syrian regime in power. This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011.

We have known about the horrors perpetrated by that régime for some time now.

When it comes to modifying the country's constitution in order to remain in power, anything goes.

Should one stick to consensus or should one be able to impose the findings of a panel?

It will then be even easier for them to hold on to power because they will have money.

Perhaps this trust can be restored before the new debate

Do you think you could keep them drunk and discontented, month after month?

The Russians and Iranians are willing to do whatever it takes to keep President Bashar al Assad in power.

As many other Pakistani leaders have done before before him, Zardari has relied on American support to stay where he is.

Of course Yanukovich is to blame, with his maniacal desire to maintain power for a group of Donetsk bandits.

Luis Carlos Díaz ( luiscarlos) agrees that the decision to place Maduro as the temporary president is tied to the capacity to get resources for the campaign. luiscarlos The government is pragmatic keeping Maduro in power will allow them to carry out another abusive electoral campaign.

In order to survive on the market they have had to follow TV2's actions.

On the contrary, it is continuing to rely on its forces to stay in power, to divide the population and sabotage the democratic parties.

In their eyes, this leaves them with virtually no choice but to hold on to power at all costs.

The Communist government managed to stay in power after Tiananmen not just through brute force.

We can get on very well wihout any of you! You're just ham actors Go wherever you like!

Without revenue, such a government cannot pay the army or thugs who keep it in power.

Even these concessions were not enough to keep him in power, and on 29 August he had to retire, leaving the treasury empty.

China remains the only large world power to still retain an authoritarian system that so infringes on human rights, it states.

So, to win, Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi has deliberately and successfully turned a civil resistance campaign into an armed conflict.

We are victims of leaders who do not attempt to find a real solution and care only about staying in power.

The natural resources are therefore not only a target of corruption but also an instrument of holding power.

I accuse Mr Martin of blatantly betraying the principle of subsidiarity, according to which power should be at the base, not at the summit.

Over the years, President Paul Kagame has used assassinations, forced disappearances and imprisonment as a policy of sustaining himself in power.

They want no alternative for the almighty dollar and will use every trick in the book to break this resistance.

Nonetheless, his party pursued a strategy of cooperation, hoping to maintain democracy and Danish control in Denmark for as long as possible.

A fresh approach must be taken to immigration as a means of ensuring that high levels of employment and productivity can be maintained in future decades.

And no one can maintain supreme power for as long as he has without being corrupted.

Crude misuse of power hampers development and perpetuates poverty.

I am capitalism and please you must understand that we must keep our cheap energy dictators in the Middle East in power!

This helps co opt the elite among the lower castes to the ruling coalition, and keeps the poor divided along caste lines.

No small country of that size, with so little help, could maintain the authority of such a regime.

In this way we hope to maintain the interinstitutional agreement, which will therefore allow us to approve the European Aviation Safety Agency.

Најчешће коришћена стратегија оних на позицијама моћи, да би је задржали, је да се одржава популација или у незнању, у страху, поремећена, или комбинацијом претходних.

To maintain and consolidate power, the Frente POLISARIO separated husbands and wives, parents and children.

As a result, conservatives have been able to retain power despite their pursuit of economic and social policies that are inimical to the interests of the middle and lower classes.

Many leading Chinese researchers are convinced that that the government will do whatever it takes to keep growth above 8 .

The Fund should be able to demonstrate that it understood how to maintain a proper balance of its three intervention strategies at the country programme level.

The only condition for keeping such divergent provision(s) is that the Contracting Party notifies of its decision the Secretary General.

We want to thank you for that and express the hope that you will be able to keep to this policy in these two and a half years of practical work.

In the last century, coups d état were often the means by which (mostly military) rulers remained in power for many years, outlawing and persecuting the opposition.

On the contrary, the list of presidents who have tweaked their constitution in order to stay in power had increased, although most of these leaders have already stayed more than ten years in power.

After independence in the early 1960 s, during the Cold War, many African rulers played the West against the Soviet bloc to retain their predatory economies.

There is not oversight and the more than 800 million paid by the investment institution will be most likely used keep them in power.

A spokesman of the committee, Lieutenant Kanoré stated that although they have dissolved the current institutions, they have no intention of holding on to power.