puppet state


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Synonyms for puppet state

a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed

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The 'boiling frog' strategy is already in motion to turn Taiwan into another authoritarian puppet state under 'One Country,' just like the Hong Kong SAR.
The puppet state government recently has also on record said that an amount of Rs 36.16 cr was outstanding against the army, Rs 3.16 cr against BSF and Rs 15.78 cr against CRPF in Kashmir region while as in Ladakh, the army owes Rs 3.57 cr and PHE Rs 2.86 Crore.
Because other than President Vladimir Putin's innate bloodthirst, there seems little to satisfy from taking part in the annihilation of a country and its people when Russian bases are secure and Syria has been reduced to a puppet state.
She explained that the puppet state government has arrested all the Hurriyat leaders and should be freed immediately.
The Edinburgh singer came across creator and performer Richard Medrington of Puppet State Theatre at a storytelling centre.
This week, Christians around the world are once again travelling the way of the cross with Jesus Christ; as we see the unfair accusations of a puppet state trying to keep in with a cruel foreign invader; as we witness Jesus' betrayal Archbishop Malcolm McMahon by one he should have been able to count upon; as we watch the false accusations, show trial, torture and death; as we see all of this we start to get an insight into how God is, how God lives, how God loves.
"The kingdom of Morocco has noticed [...] the Secretary General has dropped his neutrality and impartiality and has showed a guilty indulgence with a puppet state without attributes, territory, population, nor a recognized flag," state media said.
This was more than a settling of accounts for the twenty months of the Social Republic, for the errors and the horrors of a puppet state serving the worst ends of the Fuhrer in Berlin; this was the bill to be paid for twenty years under the regime of Mussolini, years of bullying, violence, and oppression.
Called "Holiday in the Protectorate," in reference to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the puppet state set up in the Czech lands following the Nazi dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1939, the show places the family of three generations on a farm decked out in furniture from 76 years ago.
Within days, Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who headed a Nazi puppet state in northern Italy, was captured, shot and hung by his feet in a Milan square, along with his mistress.
If the Bundesbank is obsessed bythe Weimar hyperinflation, Germany's consumers and business elite have not forgotten the Stalinist puppet state in East Berlin where Vladimir Putin once served as a young KGB major.
There he was arrested by the Ustase, the fascists running the Nazi puppet state of Croatia, and it seems it was only the intervention of the Pope that stopped his summary execution.