Sentences with phrase «against totalitarian»

Despite clear Orwellian parallels, they'd somehow expected something more conventionally heroic from this tale of a Walter Mitty - ish bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) who fantasizes about rebelling against the totalitarian system he helps to administer.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

This had a considerable impact in the US, as it was involved in a war against totalitarian regimes.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

Not exact matches

It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov's «Legend of the Grand Inquisitor» as a prescient parable glorifying human freedom and defending it against the kind of totalitarian threats it would face in the twentieth century.

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

Eschewing the argument that one evil was lesser than the other, Courtois firmly asserted that both totalitarian regimes practiced «crimes against humanity» on a monumental scale.

The spectacle of twentieth - century totalitarian movements led the Church to resolve to act in the larger world, against political messianism and in support of political moderation.

He continued: «I am more than willing to answer all the unjustified allegations you are now advancing against me, and detail my own grievances about your totalitarian «equality» policies and practices.

Martyrdom in the early churches as well as in the contemporary churches has provided signs of a political witness against tyranny and totalitarian dictatorships.

This prevented medieval society from becoming totalitarian along the Chinese model, and (as A.D. Lindsay put it in The Modern Democratic State) «preserved liberty -LSB-...] by maintaining in society an organization which could stand up against the state.»

The totalitarian impulse today is embedded in the very logic of liberalism, which seeks to expand its dominion into every aspect of life and against every competitor to its demand for the exclusive allegiance of individuals.

From what I could determine from the letters, a goodly number of those who took up their pens to defend the electronic church against my criticisms are ready and waiting for some kind of totalitarian solution.

The strategy of withdrawal (# 1 above) maintains in a dramatic form the prophetic witness against social evils; under a totalitarian government it may be the only way in which the church can exist at all.

Most of the common charges leveled against the Nicaraguan revolution (it is totalitarian, it exports arms to foment revolution in neighboring countries, it is a Soviet / Cuban puppet state, it will allow Soviet military bases on its soil, it represses the church, it persecutes Jews, it commits genocide against its native peoples, etc.) are easily refutable.

The churches may be only weak reeds against incipient totalitarian forces.

Those who decry the novel for having failed to anticipate, say, the collapse of totalitarian Communism are missing the point - for it prescribes the need for eternal vigilance against these tendencies, in ourselves as much as in others.

A quick (and somewhat souldestroying) trawl through the comments submitted by readers of the related Times article on the same day - and this story was picked up by all the broadsheet websites - showed that the vast majority supported the Prince of Wales and welcomed his stand against «egotistical» architects, «greedy» developers and «totalitarian» planning departments.

But it remains our best defense against the intellectual paralysis that is the hallmark of totalitarian societies.»

And Your Personal Fight against Big Pharma's push for a Totalitarian Reign over All of Our Bodies is both Impressive and Gaining Momentum.

Right now, El Salto fishing is as In the year 2047, a rebel operative embarks on a mission to collect incriminating evidence against the brutal, totalitarian central government.

Synopsis: This documentary explores the efforts of the E-Team (short for the Emergencies Team), a task force sent by Human Rights Watch into war torn countries and totalitarian states to investigate crimes against humanity and violations of human rights.

Set against the futuristic landscape of a totalitarian Britain, V for Vendetta tells the story of Ev...

As The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2's Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence struggles against a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian state.

The totalitarian President Snow (Donald Sutherland) pushes back against the tide with naked force, installing storm troopers («Peacekeepers») throughout the districts and acting with public violence any time even a whiff of uprising is in the air.

Ada Ushpiz's documentary explores the controversy surrounding her description of the «banality of evil» surrounding Adolf Eichmann and her warnings against the danger of conformity, and the totalitarian mindset.

What it made me do is take a firm stance against corporate takeover of the public education standards, assessments, curriculum, data systems, and the production of a totalitarian workforce development system.

It's been far too long since I've stepped into Faith's Puma Xuvia - looking shoes and fought against the oppression of a totalitarian regime in brilliant parkour glory.

Linked to these performances is the film A day in the life of bliss (2014), a sci - fi tale starring boychild as a famous pop star leading a double life as an underground performer, an act of rebellion against the techno - totalitarian government.

Just what this world needs, more liberal Democrats spewing unchecked hate, likely inciting future violence against those failing to bow to their totalitarian green - dreams.

And join him for an in - depth interview with Professor Jordan Peterson, currently fighting for his career against the gender - identity totalitarians.

The initial reaction of the two California cities that brought the case against five oil companies, demanding that they should fork out billions to fend off sea - level rise, was to use the traditional totalitarian tactic of attacking our personal reputations.

The Dakota pipeline protests have become the frontline representation of the critical struggle against a completely out of control totalitarian power structure.