Sentences with phrase «as a dictator does»

She reminds us that FDR combined the two styles, and she warns that just because he is not popularly remembered as a dictator doesn't mean he wasn't one.

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Do we idolize Steve Jobs — who Gibney clearly and rightfully depicts as a megalomaniac dictator — because of his success as an American businessman and inventor, or is there something more to the equation?

As far as Russia is concerned, there is nobody else to blame but their dictators, who did not want religion OR ANYTHING else to hamper their climAs far as Russia is concerned, there is nobody else to blame but their dictators, who did not want religion OR ANYTHING else to hamper their climas Russia is concerned, there is nobody else to blame but their dictators, who did not want religion OR ANYTHING else to hamper their climb.

He infuriated many by welcoming back into the church a rebel bishop who is on record as saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not have a systematic plan to murder Europe's Jews.

Here is a link to a video that is a powerful speech its from an older movie called the dictator, very good movie by the way, Anyway Charlie chaplin plays the part of hitler and uses a very powerful and memorable speach about equality and the way life is moving,» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo» you have shown nothing but malice in these comments and you wonder why gay's are protrayed as the «bad guys» in video games and movies and if you don't believe that then watch this» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmJXHJLZ6M» the point is I will respect the person who is silent, holding a flag that has ever color before i Can or Will ever respect someone like yourself.

I'm sorry you think that we all need to believe the exact same thing that you do in order to lead moral lives, that you need a god (one described in a book written by men yet touted as the word of god as being a genocidal dictator who demands total subservience from his followers and death to those who don't believe) in order to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

A truly apostolic Church may indeed address presidents, legislatures, kings and dictators as the prophets and Paul did of old; but like them it will be less inclined to deal with the mighty than with the great mass, with the community as it exists among the humble.

God is the Creator, Artist, Designer, Engineer, and Programmer God's Creation is Designed as a Fractal God's Creation Works Chaotically God's creation does not work randomly God is not a dictator, puppet master, control - freak, or mechanic God is not micro-managing or fixing the universe God is not experimenting or playing with the universe

Commenting on Make it Possible to Ch 10's The Project, the CEO of Australian Pork Limited stated — «Consumers are ultimately the dictators of the success of our industry — so if they're not happy with what we're doing as an industry, we are in big trouble.»

Out with the dictator who brings no trophies Out with the dictator who does not know what man marking is or how to defend Out with the dictator that brings in injured back up or none at all Out witb the dictator that plays us all for fools and rightly so as we fall for it time and again

Yes, online applications like Twitter and social networking sites have immense potential to raise high the low and bring down the mighty, but the tools ultimately don't care who uses them: dictators and demagogues have access to the same technologies as democrats and and the dispossessed, and they probably have more resources to put behind them.

Also, I think that we should be very cautious about trying to draw up a new doctrine, because it seems to me that as soon as a new doctrine is established, a case comes up that flies completely in its face, but I do hope that other members of the Security Council will see that there has been success in removing a dictator, and in giving that country a chance of peaceful and democratic progress, which will be good for the world.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kufuor Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) set up by the ex-President, John Agyeman Kufuor, has disputed claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that, President John Dramani Mahama, attacked the personality of their flagbearer, when he described him as a dictator and a divisive person.Contrary to a strong case being made by the main opposition party that their flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, has been insulted, Prof. Baffour Agyeman - Duah, said he did not see the comments by President Mahama, as something the NPP needed to worry about, because it is accepted in political campaigns.

He singled out Herman Bell, a cop killer who was recently granted parole — as did Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, the front - runner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, who accused Cuomo of being a dictator.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

That trend really does make Dictator disjointed, as Chaplin doesn't manage to meld the two particularly well.

From a story standpoint, you know where it's all headed, and as a testament of Amin's cruelty, it is convincing, but at the same time, it's difficult to shake the feeling that Garrigan has given Amin little option in the matter, as the dictator's main modus operandi in his killings is predicated on the notion of making examples of those who seek to do him harm, personally and politically, which Garrison is shown to do repeatedly throughout.

After all, «The Interview» makes fun of Western media just as much as the quick - tempered dictator, and although it could have done with a little more political satire to balance out the dick and fart jokes, it's exactly what you'd expect from the guys behind «Superbad,» «Pineapple Express» and «This Is the End.»

As an aside, his idea is not entirely logical, as what amounts to a public execution of a martyr figure would likely spur the revolution on, but they do address this and I am comfortable with megalomaniacal dictators making short - sighted decisions from time to timAs an aside, his idea is not entirely logical, as what amounts to a public execution of a martyr figure would likely spur the revolution on, but they do address this and I am comfortable with megalomaniacal dictators making short - sighted decisions from time to timas what amounts to a public execution of a martyr figure would likely spur the revolution on, but they do address this and I am comfortable with megalomaniacal dictators making short - sighted decisions from time to time.

As Armando Iannucci wryly observed while introducing his dark comedy «The Death of Stalin» at the Toronto Film Festival, being a director on a «Star Wars» movie evokes the unnerving uncertainty that followed the Soviet dictator's death: «You just don't know from day to day what's going to happen to you.»

More New Releases: «Don't Think Twice,» jealousy and doubt amongst members of a New York City improve group after one of its members gets his big break — and the rest realize that they may not get theirs; «Kicks» one fifteen year old's quest through Oakland to retrieve a stolen pair of Air Jordans; «The Devil's Dolls,» a detective's search for his daughter in a city plagued by an ancient curse; and «The Perfect Weapon,» Steven Seagal as the powerful dictator of a totalitarian state and Johnny Messner as his main hitman / enforcer.

He also said he anticipates a Trump administration would seek to promote entrepreneurship and create problem - solving in education, and would do so in part by serving as a «partner, not so much as a dictator» with school districts and states.

Young - Stone has written a novel that's both fanciful and brutally realistic, soaring as it does between angelic beings and heartless dictators.

I'm not suggesting doing away with regulating and enforcing in the dog world — only that those doing it go under a different moniker, which, just maybe, would allow them to be seen by the public, and see themselves, less as heavy - handed dictators, more as noble do - gooders.

As gamers most of us didn't even bother to think about it — here was clearly a crazy dictator and thus listening to him was never an option.

He was so effective at being an evil dictator that he didn't let a little thing like his own demise get in the way of conquest, as he was just too busy being a bad guy to stay down for long.

Since the images redacted by the piece's performance are of no apparent consequence, we don't have an erased DeKooning drawing or a mauled poster of a dictator; we have a sense of nothingness, erased, creating a sense only that the photograph can behave as a Minimal object rather than a depicting thing — because it wants to and can.

The utopia of placeless infinity (Untitled, «Infinity wall,» 2008) or the reminiscence of a former socialist utopist turned dictator (Thaw (Takaki Masao), 2007) explore this theme, as do the most recent large - scale sculptures, which, like pieces of architecture, allow the viewer to access interior worlds and provide him / her with an intense spatial experience (Via Negativa, 2012).

Nothing I can do about that mate until I'm appointed as either the world dictator or RC moderator.

And he has done so, repeatedly, demonstrating that he can flaunt the rule of law as well as Jinping and any other despot among the gaggle of tyrants and megalomaniacs that dominate the dictator's club known as the United Nations.

But what would he do as dictator?

I don't blame the newbies... I blame the comfortable - in - their - chairs nine - to - five bureaucratic mobsters masquerading as benevolent dictators for the ongoing problems within the never - ending washing - machine» esque spin - cycle style spewing - out - into - the - drain - hole - of - soon - to - fail - newbies problem.

Don't put too much stock in the outcome in Quebec unless the final outcome is based upon pure human - based common - sense and rational reasoning based upon today's realities, and not upon some dictator's ideas (efficient and seemingly workable in their day as they were determined to be by their followers, and current supporters) that were not agreed upon by the masses, but were forced upon them to be adopted and espoused by the same, or else; no wonder they have held sway for so long... there is a very strong element of treasonous thinking directed toward any «outsider type thinking» regarding this hallowed legal code.