Sentences with phrase «even in a dictatorship»

Even in a dictatorship when the ruling party loses an election, and then ignores its outcome, it attempts to provide a plausible reason to justify their actions,» Icahn said.

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No, to the extent that there's even an ethically interesting dilemma, here, it isn't rooted in the sale of Internet - filtering technology to brutal dictatorships.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

Cobb even gives us one concrete example, claiming that «in Nicaragua the Christian conscience sided with the use of relatively limited violence to bring an end to massive structural violence by a corrupt dictatorship» and that «this is surely a gain worth the price paid» (PTT 107).

Also, God's use of power and wrath being employed against the wicked is a great comfort, and even can be a source of joy, to those people who are being dominated by evil authorities, which perhaps is not as evident in the USA today but think of the joy for the people when an evil dictatorship is squashed.

He points out that even in autocratic systems, collective leaderships tend to fare better than single person dictatorships.

The North Korean leadership may even consider that after all it was rapid economic growth in South Korea and China that buttressed the dictatorships of General Park Chung Hee and of the Chinese Communist Party respectively.

In a dictatorship even with a benevolent monarch, we end up going through tyranny, revolution and conflict.

Almost all sunni governments in middle east (even the most severe dictatorship, KSA) are US allies.

So, yes, dictatorships, in some circumstances, are unique in increasing the efficiency of governance by reducing delays in the formulation and implementation of policies due to the absence of the need for consensus and endless debates to implement projects or policy and the unique ability to calibrate complete legal systems by decree and even an ability to stay focused over long periods, accelerating economic development.

«We are certainly descending into a deeper dictatorship trajectory than we have ever witnessed in our polity even during military interregnum.

After trudging through the prisoner of war camp and partaking in a variety of bloody dull missions which involve even more trudging the war is suddenly over and am evil dictatorship is introduced.

I do not live in China, never have, never have even set foot in China, and never will as long as the communists rule that country like a USSR - style dictatorship (despite the fashionable Shanghai shop window displays and the excellent movies from Chinese directors there... but I do live in TAIWAN, an island nation 100 miles off the coast of communist China, ahd I have been studying the Chicoms (as they are called — Chinese communists) for more than 10 years and reading their English propaganda newspapers online, like the People's Daily (go look) and this is important for Americans to hear:

With the 1990s, it became commonplace to state that LTG had been a mistake if not a joke designed to tease the public, or even an attempt to force humankind into a planet - wide dictatorship, as it had been claimed in some earlier appraisals (Golub and Townsend 1977; Larouche 1983).

Patrick Goodenough in CNS News reported recently that even in China, which is ruled by a Communist Party dictatorship, the government has referred the treaty to the Standing Committee of Parliament for its approval.

Unless the effects of imbecilic and reactionary political dictatorship are even worse than many fear, a functioning and progressive legal machine will continue to operate in one way or another.

It is a dictatorship, a banana republic dictatorship at its finest, yet most Realtors do not even realize what a bad, nonrepresentative, top - down, Soviet style rolling oligarchical band of in - house, self - effacing, deluded, south - facing elitists controls their communal fate.