Sentences with phrase «as dictatorial»

After a quarter - century onscreen, Charlotte actor Robert C. Treveiler gets his best film role as the dictatorial dad.

The new perspective was to consolidate the party as a dictatorial apparatus, made effective as a vote - rigging contraption, after a selection process that was tightly controlled and residing inside Aso Villa at the national level and the government houses in the states.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino owns the Republican nomination and, as CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Thursday, he has cast Gov. Andrew Cuomo as dictatorial in a new campaign movie.

I think we are afraid that if we don't compromise, we will be viewed as a dictatorial leader.

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As a startup leader you're typically telling others what to do, not in a dictatorial - rule sort of way but because you have a clear vision of what success looks like in your head.

Paternalistic: Paternalistic management is also very dictatorial, but includes the best interests of the employees as well as the business itself.

He saw the demoralizing implications of the concordat between the Hitler - led German government and the Vatican that was signed in 1933 as Hitler was consolidating dictatorial powers.

And yet, as progressivism denies authority, it also exercises an often ruthless and dictatorial control.

But that has the consequence of meaning that oppressive, dictatorial governments are never doing anything wrong so long as they stay in power.

The culture wars are increasingly driven by southern conservatives and as a non-southern, non-conservative (though from the south) I view the culture wars as increasingly dictatorial and oppressive.

Green was allowed to make the unopposed penultimate point suggesting that just as religious dictatorial fundamentalism and theocracy are causing «enormous violence» around the world hierarchical Churches believing in «one fundamental and absolute truth» are places where child abuse flourishes.

The difficulties with «strongly religious» colleges even today, much less between 1870 and 1920, are sometimes buried in Marsden's notes, as when he admits that academic due process is often absent from such schools and «dictatorial rule is particularly common.»

The many new revelations about Chile's dictatorial era came as Pinochet's personal image as an austere and incorruptible man disintegrated in the face of a U.S. Senate port affirming that he had accumulated millions of dollars in hidden wealth.

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Parents who exhibit this style are often described as domineering and dictatorial.

As leader of the Greater London Council, Ken became so inundated with enquiries resulting from the GLC Welfare Rights Project that he enforced, with dictatorial severity, a paper - recyclable dress code.

The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

As the controversial president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh takes his dictatorial rule against the media in the country, ECOWAS has on Monday condemned the closure of another Radio station.

CSBHROs in a statement, said: «It is no longer a subject of debate whether or not Nigeria of Buhari's civilian presidency is tyrannical - cum - dictatorial; as the country is fully back in dictatorship or chained democracy.

As noticed by Satterthwaite, the original theorem immediately implies that, on the subset of configurations where all voters have strict preferences, the system is dictatorial (given the usual assumptions, i.e. non-manipulability and at least 3 eligible candidates).

Truly in history, artistes have been known the world over to use their talents to serve as pains in the necks of governments, especially, the bad, autocratic and dictatorial ones.

But individually, state lawmakers from both parties are frustrated with Cuomo, who they view as mercurial at best and dictatorial at worst.

Note that even people supposedly wedded to democratic ideas easily slide into «I want moar power to achieve this beneficial goal» and as much as possible, sliding into more dictatorial and less democratic process.

Describing the act of impunity by the DSS under President Muhammadu Buhari as undemocratic, unpatriotic, dictatorial and brutish, the lawmakers also demanded a thorough medical examination of Hon. Akanni, saying, «we fear that his health and general well - being could have been compromised while in the DSS custody».

In some, such as Spain, their adoption may have been helped by memories of more dictatorial forms of rule.

Sigourney Weaver (Dave, Alien 3) stars as Paulina Escobar, wife of Gerardo Escobar (Wilson, The Age of Innocence), a soon - to - be bigwig in the new democratic government of a South American nation which recently underwent a revolution to overthrow its brutal dictatorial regime.

If you have dictatorial powers, as Snow does, and control over the media, as this government does, then how can you not besmirch a name?

An eerie and sometimes harrowing story of disgraced Catholic priests confined to a seaside home, the movie overtly references the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the Church internationally, but the story also serves as a sly metaphor for the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the 1970s, which Larraín's parents supported.

¹ André Bazin and the late Eric Rohmer, especially, championed the moral as well as aesthetic superiority of mise en scène over montage, of Hawksian «invisible cutting» over dictatorial Eisensteinian editing, and of deep - focus over a more selective, shallow depth - of - field.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

The show started out hot this season, immediately picking up with Neil Gamby's hunt for his shooter, and giving us a hint of the dictatorial stylings of Lee Russell as Principal, which made the meandering nature of «The King» all the more disappointing.

The engrossing tale hinges on the dictatorial powers of the Captain Nemat, who acts as salesman, matchmaker and power of attorney for the trusting residents of the slowly - sinking ship.

The inventive indie darling, Papers, Please won the Innovation Award and the honor for Best Downloadable Game in recognition of developer Lucas Pope's compelling gameplay structured around protocols and moral challenges of working as an immigration agent under a dictatorial regime.

But what starts out with a bit of a freakshow vibe, bringing their household's bizarre rituals (their familial Halloween rite has to be seen to be believed) and alien assumptions to light, turns into a touching real - world drama, as they mature, rebel, escape their dictatorial father, emerge into the world, and reveal themselves as surprisingly well - adjusted and capable.

Movie directors can come across as all sorts of personalities — arrogant, collegial, mercurial, dictatorial.

Just as important, they add character and personality to a film built on a saintly young hero and an impassive dictatorial antagonist.

As the DfE's direction since 2010 has been to move away from top - down prescription, calls for statutory limits on working time and enforced work - life balance policies not only run contrary to this strategy but the likelihood of such dictatorial tools making a significant difference is debatable at best.

They objected to making the study of Shakespeare compulsory in secondary schools and rejected as «dictatorial» a plan to «impose» a «canon of supposedly great works,» including having all pupils read some Dickens and Wordsworth.

Interviewed late last week, Baraka — a council member and school principal whose critique's of Anderson's ed reforms have fueled his mayoral bid — denounced the Christie appointee's approach as «dictatorial,» «totalitarian» and «narcissism.»

Rather than accepting the regimented, dictatorial, top - down teacher evaluation system being pushed by Connecticut's Commissioner of Education, Scarice led a community based planning process that developed a home - grown teacher evaluation system that should be used as a national model.

Moskowitz has selectively embraced her reputation as a demanding boss, using it to cast herself as a passionate advocate for low - income children, rather than a dictatorial boss.

And as you say (I think I'm repeating myself), I just don't see that what RWA * might * do as any sort of dictatorial action.

This book takes the view that governments will become dictatorial as they get more desperate.

As with last year, we've managed to amass a shortlist for each category and we've already determined our winners through a fair and dictatorial democratic process.

Tropico 6 is just as dastardly dictatorial as previous entries.

A tragically emblematic figure in the emergence of Korea as a modern nation, Yi Gu was a young architect in I.M. Pei's New York office when he was summoned back to Korea by Park Chung - hee, who sought to shore up his dictatorial regime by enacting a symbolic restoration of Joseon Dynasty.

He's often seen as a challenging artist who was arrogant and dictatorial, but this characterization will vanish the day the museum opens its doors.

The objects and bodies of the Tobias tableaux are often drawn from archetypal folk figures of their Transylvanian heritage, including the notable character Vlad the Impaler, as well as Romanian political lineages of dictatorial urbanization and Socialist architecture.

Conceptual and abstract art made in several Latin American countries from the late»50s onwards dealt not only with questions of abstraction and constructivism but also with deeper cultural issues such as colonialism, repressive and dictatorial governments and social inequality.