Sentences with phrase «jgl cult of personality»

Ri Sol Ju, the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been upgraded from «comrade» to «revered first lady» in a potential bid to create a cult of personality around her.

The limit of two five - year presidential terms was written into China's constitution after Mao's death in 1976 by Deng Xiaoping, who recognized the dangers of one - man rule and the cult of personality and instead espoused collective leadership.

Still, this much is clear: the socially responsible companies of today, unlike their forebears, aren't driven by a cult of personality (read: Ben Cohen, Yvon Chouinard, Paul Hawken, Anita Roddick).

Admittedly, the highly entertaining, extremely endearing, wildly ambitious, and always surprising Musk has something of a cult of personality.

So Khrushchev blamed the Terror on Stalin and his «cult of personality», and historians in the West followed his lead.

It's far wiser to depend on advanced analytics than a high - priced cult of personality.

So you have things like «the cult of personality» where Trump's ego comes into play, classic hallmark of despot like behaviour.

The reason he was the driving force behind the films creation and promotion was not because of the artistic merit he imparted to the work (not to say the movie and book weren't excellent), but because of the cult of personality surrounding his own personal brand.

The Fed was an opaque cult of personality under Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan; it is now the most transparent central bank in the world.

(CNNMoney) Horrid economy gives a boost to evangelists and religious cult of personalities.

It's a cult of personality.

Some possibilities are that Trump voters are more protectionist than the average Republican voter, or that they instinctively back his positions based on a cult of personality, or that Trump is an inherently divisive figure even within the Republican Party and that this extends to his positions on policies.

Gradually it became apparent to everyone on the outside that he had cleverly developed a Cult of Personality.

He managed to make his own cult of personality and, kept nations under his thrall through fear and intimidation.

Cult of personality is a huge problem in Christendom.

You might consciously have moved on, removed yourself from the environment, be living a completely different life far removed from the cult of personality and manipulative control.

Your religion is a cult of personality rather than a religion of peace and love.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al. simply formed their own religions — or cults of personality to be more accurate.

-- Mao Tse Tung, Autotheist who successfully mythologized himself into the Godhead position of his cult of personality (fixed that for you)

Of course, the Church should never be naïve in paying homage to the cult of personality.

There he denounced the cult of personality and the monstrosities perpetrated by Stalin.

They removed the Christian church and replaced it with a cult of personality with them at the center.

Pretty sure you still need to show that these wackos weren't at the top of a cult of personality, which they were.

That's no evidence that Christianity is true, but the religion certainly did start as a cult of personality that followed a charismatic teacher who is generally accepted to be an historical personage.

They built cults of personality with themselves in the Godhead position — as is happening in North Korea right now.

A veritable «Cult of Personality» of the so called «Pastor General» and his crew of worshipping incorporated «flying monkeys».

Whether guilty of the accusations or not, Long has created a «cult of personality» around himself.

North Koreans are victims of a cult of personality as opposed to a cult of divinity.

While they both sought to eliminate traditional religions from their kingdoms, they did so in order to divert the common man's fervour to their own cults of personality.

Eventually the pope came to «Francis Fields,» so named by some organizer with a weakness for cults of personality.

Several of the governments mentioned in the comments, like North Korea and China, do not wave a banner of atheism for the populace to rally around — they are cults of personality (Kim Jong Il and Mao Tse Tung, respectively).

The «atheistic» regimes to which you refer aped the forms and rhetoric of religion and their leaders made themselves gods in their own cults of personality.

Cult of personality is one of the most dangerous innovations we've come up with.

I've often argued that the evangelicals» iconoclastic impulse leaves too much room for cult of personality to form.

Fascist, too, are the cults of personality surrounding televangelists and the structure of the «male - dominated authoritarian church.»

The viewership of such TV shows is like a «cult of personality».

«Occu - pew Church» — a movement away from counterfeit «Church - ianity,» cult of personality and religion toward authentic grassroots personal faith, based on living and loving like Jesus.

Deeply embedded within the Pentecostal movement's ethos is a cult of personality; charismatic leaders are put on pedestals above accountability and are often virtually worshiped by many of their followers.

Part of the problem I think we face is one that Paul addresses with the Corinthians namely, the cult of personality.

This cult of personality has affected churches that I have been in, both in small home groups or up to mega churches.

Yet this cult of the personality is what many pastors are striving for.

I did not want to get swept up into the cult of the personality.

Burma — Buddhist China — Communist — Cult of personality centered on Chairman Mao Eritrea — 63 % Christian, 37 % Muslim Iran — Muslim North Korea — Communist (cult of personality centered around Kim Jong Il and family) Saudi Arabia — Muslim Sudan — Muslim Uzbekistan — Muslim

That's how strong his cult of personality is.

The Swede already almost demands to be the main man at any club he joins, so imagine the cult of personality there would be if he was the boss!

There might be a cult of personality surrounding certain controversial Atheist figured (think Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens) but no, Atheist is NOT a religion.

Amy might be intelligent, successful and has successfully raised for children but since ears don't «perk» at her name she has to be envious of an aging hippy with a cult of personality around her.

Like most brutal dictators, he maintains his hold on power largely by a cult of personality - he appears so strong that no one in his own government will challenge him.

Nobody accused Hazel Blears of attempting to foster a cult of personality with her «nuts about Hazel» hoodies back in 2007, so why aim the jibe at Jezza?

Having built a dynastic regime with a strong cult of personality, that is desperate for international recognition, a bilateral summit is an excellent way to prove that Kim Jong - un is on equal footing with an US President.