Sentences with phrase «in dictatorships in»

For instance, having your character living in a dictatorship in a virtual world might be fun from a role - playing standpoint, as would be ruthlessly slaughtering NPC innocents.

Not exact matches

Puigdemont would be not the first Catalan leader to govern the region from abroad — Josep Tarradellas also ran Catalonia while in exile in Paris from 1954 to 1977, during which time Spain was a dictatorship.

Does a brutal dictatorship in the Horn of Africa, featuring systematic slavery and more generally an awful record of human rights abuse sound like a place you want to do business?

The Kim dynasty has been one of the most durable dictatorships in the world, and its key aim is survival.

The Spanish Civil War and the 36 years of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship feature heavily in his discourse.

In the 20th century, democracy trumped dictatorships because the governing system was better at processing data and making decisions.

«They are coming as refugees and there will be a place for them in Uruguay if they want to bring their families,» said Mujica, who spent 14 years in prison before and during his country's 1973 - 1985 dictatorship.

«This order demonstrates more clearly than ever that the United States will not allow an illegitimate dictatorship to take hold in the Western Hemisphere at the expense of its people,» national security adviser H.R. McMaster said at the time.

In public and in private, Stalin was committed to building socialism, not to building a personal dictatorship for its own sakIn public and in private, Stalin was committed to building socialism, not to building a personal dictatorship for its own sakin private, Stalin was committed to building socialism, not to building a personal dictatorship for its own sake.

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.

Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

Fascism, having nothing for sale but dictatorship and no selling point but the necessity for force, requires civil riots in order to advertise its goods and a civil triumph to complete the sale.

The real dilemmas have to do not with the fact that there are brutal dictatorships in the world, but with the fact that the governments of the world are spread along a spectrum, from fair and democratic to violent and totalitarian.

Published Thursday, «Building Global Community» neatly sidesteps the constitutional niceties of the nation - state in favor of an extension of the big blue benevolent dictatorship of Facebook.

There was some irony in these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorshipin these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorshipIn the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorships.

CARACAS A group of Venezuelan rock bands hope to popularize songs against President Nicolas Maduro by handing out a CD called «Rock Against Dictatorship» during a summit of Latin American and North American countries in Lima this week.

Refineries in eastern Canada are of course being supplied by imported oil, but it's not coming from Middle Eastern dictatorships or revolutionary regimes in South America.

Belarus, known as Europe's last dictatorship, will legalize cryptocurrencies, ICOs and mining in the country.

The self - belief that led Castro to think in 1956 that a ragtag band of rebels under his command could overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship within a couple of years was not that different to the «reality - distortion field» sometimes attributed to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The election that never should have happened is in the books and the result proved that personal arrogance masquerading as public policy is a poison unless you live in a totalitarian dictatorship.

The monks» enemies are not of flesh and bone - their enemies are things like intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which can be found in the heart of men.

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

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.

So the government is — essentially, the Social Democrats have imposed the dictatorship in Iceland that they're trying to impose in Greece under the socialist government there and in other social democratic governments throughout Europe.

watch how the Zionazis are trashing this Jew for showing a little sympathy to the victims of Israeli military dictatorship and occupation / colonization in the UN-recognized state of Palestine.

not much value for the poorest in the dictatorship.

Can it be that power corrupts people to the point that — no matter their philosophy — they behave in very similar ways: denial, anger, dictatorship (of business or church), avoidance by attacking, creating enemies for the sake of gaining unity, and each promising to «make American (or Christianity) great again»?

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — 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.»

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

Americans are getting tired Islam's dictatorship in the countries they rule and the lack of human rights.

♦ 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.

Fr Fernando Cardenal was a Jesuit priest who joined the left - wing Sandinista uprising in Nicaragua after it toppled what many say was the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979.

The «leaders» are either rulers of dictatorships, politicians with power agendas or local clerics with their own version of islam that is rooted in the traditions of their region.

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

The Guardian: Cameron calls on Islam to embrace democracy and reject extremism Democracy and Islam can flourish together, David Cameron will declare on Thursday as he uses a landmark speech in Indonesia to tell the Muslim world that it can reject a «dead - end choice» between extremism and dictatorship.

Wasserstein conflates two different aspects of modern dictatorships in a clever way to trivialize Arendt's formulations.

But in Russia, the dictatorship was realized in full.

«The policy», they explained, «involved maintaining dialogue with communist regimes in order to assist the oppressed Church and believers behind the Iron Curtain without legitimising dictatorships.

Since achieving independence from the U.S - backed dictatorship in 1979, Nicaragua has had only three years of relative peace.

• A U.S. aid package to Nicaragua approved by the U.S. Congress in 1980, a year after the ouster of the U.S. - backed dictatorship, targeted the most reactionary business organization for substantial aid.

Dom Helder Camara, the diminutive Brazilian archbishop who symbolizes Christian opposition to military dictatorship not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America, was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at Harvard University in 1974.

Citizens of the dictatorship are forced to worship the Kim family, and anyone who does not is subject to immediate punishment — arrest, torture or death, which could come in the form of a public execution.

Argentina suffered under a brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, and how the Church and Jesuits reacted to it has been in dispute ever since.

But you can count on this pontificate to challenge the dictatorship of relativism in the name of authentic humanism.

When the Chinese dictatorship is replaced by a more humane regime» and one may reasonably think it is more a matter of when than if» the Christian proposal could have a world - transforming effect in aligning that society with the cause of human dignity.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

Muslims will NEVER be Americans!!!! They don't have the capacity to understand freedom and democracy!!!! Only through Jesus can anyone understand the concept of freedom!!!! There's a reason why all of the free nations in the world are Christian and all of the dictatorships are Muslim or communist (atheist)!!!!

Terrorists or dictatorships who persecute innocent people because they claim it's part of faith are not welcomed — their use of Islam as a scapegoat, does not make Islam what they portray it to be, in fact those false persecutors will be punished themselves by God, «God is the only judge.

Truth is objective and unchanging: At the very beginning of his encyclical, Francis invokes «my predecessor, Benedict XVI,» who famously assailed the «dictatorship of relativism» — a critique Francis endorsed shortly after he became pope and now expands upon in Laudato Si.