Sentences with phrase «as dictators of»

They had / have it all, as dictators of nations, yet these types of people are still brutally aggressive.

Yes, that's Sacha Baron Cohen dressed as the dictator of fictitious third - world country Wadiya in the third collaboration between the comedian and director Larry Charles (Borat 89, Bruno 54).

Academy Award winner Michael Caine stars as the dictator of a...

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In the past, Twitter has trumpeted its status as the «free - speech wing of the free - speech party,» the service responsible for helping topple dictators in Egypt and Libya.

The use of military terminology such as «laser - focused» or «targeted» are signs that CEOs are ruthless dictators bent on world domination.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

Kim Jong Un has been described as one of the world's scariest dictators.

The north is too often misunderstood as an unpredictable rogue state led by a dynasty of mad dictators.

That lack of flexibility is likely if anything to lead to still tougher sanctions by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has described Maduro as a «bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator.»

Beyond Syria, France has expanded its counterterrorism operations throughout North Africa as Jihadi groups have proliferated in the aftermath of the downfall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

«It's the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife,» he said.

You lead a start - up successfully by developing a unique insight to a deeply felt customer need, executing, and acting as a bit of a benevolent dictator.

Other targets of the U.S. penalties are Gambia's former president, as well as the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general.

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?

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high - stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been «very open» and «very honorable,» a sharply different assessment of a leader he once denounced as «Little Rocket Man.»

In the case of an eccentric atheist dictator such as Kim Jong - Il, Hitchens argued that his personality cult was as religious in character as any fanatical sect.

There Matthias reigned for a brief time as absolute dictator, controlling also the sexual pairings of his handful of followers.

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

This damnatia memoriae of inconvenient facts was simply expunged from the 2001 IPCC report, much as Trotsky and Yezhov were removed from Stalin's photographs by dark - room specialists in the later years of the dictator's reign.

This means that, in defending the Dictators, they are also banking their own influence as loyalists to elevate the entire network of individual and organizations in this negative support system, and not just the Dictators.

Consequently, the notion of God is as of a dictator; and «our modern rituals,» as Whitehead goes on to say in the same passage, «still retain this taint.»

Fidel Castro is a controversial and divisive world figure, lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but viewed as a dictator who has overseen multiple human rights abuses by his critics.

The concluding words of The Great Dictator are as revealing as anything of the real Charlie and his comic brotherhood.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

As Lemoux states, «Between 1950 and 1975 the U.S. trained 71,651 Latin American military personnel, including eight of the region's current dictators, and in addition supplied 2.5 billion dollars worth of armaments» (Cry, p. 56).

We can give tons of money to foreign dictators as long as they promise to spend it on our arms contracts with them.

If God is conceived as cosmic dictator, this notion is a reflection of the human desire to control and manage.

It means self - government of a given body of people, as contrasted with non-democratic political systems in which rule is in the hands of a hereditary monarch, of a dictator, of an aristocracy (noblemen or intellectuals), of a class (rich people, the proletariat, or priests), or of a limited party.

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.

It's the way of the egomaniacal dictator as well as the newly promoted, insecure foreman.

However, the Bible is not to be regarded as an arbitrary dictator of dogma, nor as an infallible source of truth either in religion or any other area.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

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.

David A. Stewart, in Thirst for Freedom, describes the operation of the alcoholic's narcissism as «the little dictator,» an unconscious complex of magical thinking, false pride, fear, anger, lack of insight, and resistance to facing one's need for outside help.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

As blood and chaos flood the dictator's former killing fields, war supporters hate peace lovers» inability to hang tough in the name of freedom.

People who ask these questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, who is responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

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.

Please note: Ten years after a U.S. - led war to topple a dictator and establish the rule of law, things are so bad that a U.S. government commission has named Iraq as a particularly worrisome country with respect to religious freedom.

People who ask such questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.

He describes the Kissinger policy on human rights as a «two - track moral message «that the dictators conveniently interpreted as an endorsement of their brutal tactics.

Dinges refers to the crusade of Pinochet and other Latin American dictators against revolutionary guerrillas as «the first war on terrorism.»

We go to war in the name of liberating people from dictators, and frequently, the new leaders placed in power are just as corrupt and destructive as those which were removed.

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.»

All this speculation about, undoubtedly 2 of our best players, is tearing the club and supporters apart and this is due to the dictator we have as a manager who, in his mind alone, is always right.

There is one more man who I think of in the same way as the deluded dictator pulling his empire apart with his every deed: Arsene Wenger!

ok we are in a strong financial position, we all know that since we are one of the richest teams ok the worls and we can buy any player besides neymar messi or cr7 (thats we we are tought, besides we fail in signing the likes of mbappe, lemar and others) we are there of course because of wenger masterplan to move to emirates and sacrifice our best year, when we were an atractive club because of the noise and image of the invensible... we have an awesome squad, last year, one of the best in the last 20 years of the club, as we were told from the same dictator who knows all arsenal players in those years