Sentences with phrase «on tyranny»

That borders on the tyranny of the majority.

Our artists have helped lift the veil on tyranny, with anyone infringing freedom inevitably facing an artist's brush or singers verse.

There's a good chance that Boyarsky will be working on Tyranny, but we'll wait for some official word to confirm it before jumping to conclusions.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder Separated into chapters named for different parts of the body — Skin, Muscle, Guts, etc — this slender meditation on the aging process is an essential book for women of every age.

We are then thrown into a Fantasy world, where Russell Crowe's Noah stands high and mighty, looking down on the tyranny of man.

The standouts here: Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet doing more experimental image - making along the lines of their gorgeous giallo homage Amer; Adam Wingard appearing on screen to puzzle out a hilarious solution to being stuck with the letter «Q»; Xavier Gens landing a grisly statement on the tyranny of body fascism in the culture; and contest - winner Lee Hardcastle contributing a clever stop - motion bit about a little boy's fears of potty training.

Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams on the tyranny of forcing audiences to join your attempt to go viral.

This provides grist for the kind of think pieces that spar with one another — «Infinity War» is liberal; no, it's conservative; but don't you see that it's a protest against Trump; actually, it's an attack on the tyranny of political correctness — until they catalyze the inevitable anti-intellectual backlash.

Thanks for putting some focus on the tyranny of RCT «s. Touted to be the golden standard of proof in medicine, it does exclude things like nutrition in science.

It is essentially an issue of distributive justice rather than relying on the tyranny of the polls.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Not exact matches

«This freedom from the tyranny of immediate results enabled Sir Alex to constantly work on the composition of the club several years into the future, without worrying whether he would still be there if United had a bad losing streak,» says Moritz.

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

Even without sexual pressure, there's the tyranny of fashion and the fear of being judged on your appearance; by women as well as by men.

When u lose this u r on the way to tyranny like Rome.

Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

As I point out the tyranny of the Communist regime, I reflect on and judge myself.

When we begin sacrificing people on the altar of Law, we move from Mercy and Grace to Tyranny and Abuse,

We tend to think of holy war as the strong using God to justify their conquest of the weak, but the Old Testament flips this picture on its head: God arises on behalf of the weak when the tyranny of the strong has raged for far too long.

The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves by norm klassen wipf and stock, 234 pages, $ 24

And since we know categorically that prohibition of abortion is totally, completely ineffective, there is no supportable reason to place that tyranny on American women.

The rule of law is established on a mean that predates Aristotle: «Neither anarchy nor tyranny, my people,» the goddess charges.

The Economist recently reported on the growing tensions between those who «lapsed» and those who boldly opposed tyranny.

But odds are there was a carpenter named Jesus who did gain some following but was likely married much like nearly all of the other supposed messiahs of that time period, as there were many, for the Jewish people had been awaiting his arrival for hundreds of years and were then feeling the boot of Rome on their necks and assumed this was the time the messiah would come as the true King of Israel and throw off the shackles of Roman tyranny.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions; and, thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, can not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.3

(An excerpt from the book, focusing on the happiness / misery calculus, appeared in the April issue of Scientific American, under the title «The Tyranny of Choice.»)

cannabis prohibition is a stumblingblock that causes a person to become desensitized to his convictions on his conscience, and it is our lawful Christian duty to speak against this evil tyranny in our land.

Evangelical fitness maven Stormie Omartian led the way (even while plugging her own diet and exercise plan) by addressing, in 1984 and again in 1993, the tyranny of contemporary body standards and noting that most dieters carry on a self - defeating battle with food and exercise that is «a prelude to the most intense feelings of failure.»

Each of these nations, as well as others, has rejected their past tyranny in favor of building a society based on the principles of liberty.

Those that utter hatred or ridicule for Graham or a restaurant or anyone else who speaks against politically correct issues are on the side of tyranny far worse than anything words can convey.

When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

As time goes on, society, including those religious, secular, atheists, nationalistic, patriotic, tyranny rulerships, etc., are all moving away from the peaceful messages and rules provided in the bible.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

Some say that ending tyranny means «imposing our values» on people who do not share them, or that people live in parts of the world where freedom can not take hold.

Minear seems to be imposing a metaphysical distinction on the Bible when he says that the coming of Christ means that «the tyranny of chronos has been broken once and for all.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

Your difficulty is that you want to try to live in history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.

Manent shows in great detail the ineptitude that invariably follows when the church attempts to think politically, to do the work the nation and its statesmen are supposed to do — just as the nation engages in tyranny based on psychological reductionism when it tries to displace the universal message of the City of God with some ideology or civil theology.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

That if it is adopted on apparently just grounds to overthrow tyranny, it must never be regarded as more than a preparatory step to positive structures of law and justice.

And yet the just aspirations of the underprivileged and the generous idealisms of many of the privileged have been changed into the means by which the most efficient and most oppressive of all tyrannies has been imposed on many nations.

Any condition of social injustice, economic deprivation, political tyranny, or racial discrimination has a deleterious effect on the self - esteem of the victims.

The focus of traditional therapy — on negative feelings, accumulated hurts and frustrations, patterns of relating to the past — are not ignored, (Growth often occurs as one — by choosing to live in the present — breaks the tyranny which the past has been allowed to wield over one's life.)

He called on the nobility not simply to resist but to overthrow what he considered the tyranny of Catholic rule in Scotland.

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.

Plus we hear from pastor - to - the - stars Judah Smith about the tyranny of seeking significance on Twitter.

All through the Cold War, their journal was one of the few reliable sources for documentation on the persecution of believers under Communist tyrannies.

The prospect of a tyranny that strides beyond the grave could be next on the block and then 46 % of Americans would be reliant on their brains rather than religion to answer the «universal questions».