civilian government

There is widespread concern about how much control Pakistan's new civilian government has over the country's powerful security agencies.

Now we see that what civilian government wants to do in Turkey can only be checked at the ballot box, not the generals anymore.

The White House said Friday that Egypt's military rulers must speed up the country's transition to a civilian government.

In the long term, Myanmar could undergo a gradual transition of power to a civilian government, free of military control.

One thing is certain: when the fig leaf of civilian government arrives in 2011, there will be no place in it for the Lady.

In the event of post election sectarian violence and a political breakdown, it could intervene if the civilian government loses control.

It is the first high level bilateral talks between the two countries since the civilian government took over in Pakistan in March.

Gordon Brown also told his colleagues that Britain would be directly helping the civilian government in Haiti get back on its feet.

Talk of a civilian government ripping up the recent accords is overdone , too, he says .

The former president was removed from power in February, and most Egyptians believed a new civilian government would be in place by now.

Bhutto was assassinated, Mr Zardari became president, and Pakistan lives on with a weak civilian government and growing corruption.

So far, Pakistan's powerful armed forces have remained quiet, allowing the civilian government to respond to bin Laden's death.

The honeymoon between Pakistan's powerful military establishment and the newly elected civilian government appears to be short-lived .

While commonly seen as part of the military establishment, the Rangers are directly controlled by the civilian government.

Granting authority to civilian government officials does not of itself terminate the Army's responsibility in the occupied territory.

That's only about half of the manpower reductions made throughout the military and in the rest of the civilian government.

The military will have the power, constitutionally, to do anything it wants to do without interference from the civilian government.

Soon after, Ammar conspicuously stepped aside to allow for the creation of a new civilian government.

That opens the way for the military to hand over power to a new civilian government in a matter of months.

The civilian government also wants to improve its overall relationship with the United States.

But the balance of power between the civilian government and the traditionally powerful military has shifted dramatically.

Guinea-Bissau's military junta handed power back to a civilian government six weeks after the army staged a coup.

Pervez Musharraf, in his Pakistan Day address, also credited his regime with paving the way for the return to civilian government.

New Delhi says the trip, the first since a civilian government took office, is an opportunity to "further vitalize" the relationship.

Then one dictator seized it , then another and so on, until a civilian government handed control to a worker cooperative a few decades ago .

Inviting Gilani was also a gesture of projecting the legitimacy of Pakistan's civilian government over its Army.

But he cautions that their anger is being kept in check by expectations the civilian government will adequately punish the killers.

Although the CIA operates in Pakistan, it appears to share very little information with either the military or civilian government.

Egypt needs a robust, accountable, elected civilian government, and the sooner the better.

They wonder how committed the soldiers really are to their promise of surrendering power to an elected civilian government.

India's civilian government functions transparently and accountably.

Mr. Armstrong flew 78 missions as a Navy combat pilot in the Korean War and later gained prominence as a civilian government test pilot.

Apparently reluctant to rule, the generals said they would hand over to an elected civilian government as soon as was sensibly possible.

Few believe the military will really hand over power to a civilian government.

The new so-called civilian government is under the most intense pressure from its citizens and the international community.

Pressuring Pakistan's civilian government does not work, because the government is not in a position to guide policy.

Foreign help for the Afghans after 2014 will largely involve money and training for its civilian government and security forces.

Nawaz Sharif, the main opposition leader, seems not to want to bring down a civilian government before elections are due.

We don't even bother anymore to negotiate with the flimsy civilian government in Pakistan.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to organize a civilian government in the Philippines.

The civilian government probably wanted to do so.