Sentences with phrase «as in any dictatorship»

The purpose of law is not to restrain the citizens: governments can do that very well in its absence, as in any dictatorship.

Not exact matches

«They are coming as refugees and there will be a place for them in Uruguay if they want to bring their families,» said Mujica, who spent 14 years in prison before and during his country's 1973 - 1985 dictatorship.

Belarus, known as Europe's last dictatorship, will legalize cryptocurrencies, ICOs and mining in the country.

The election that never should have happened is in the books and the result proved that personal arrogance masquerading as public policy is a poison unless you live in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

The Guardian: Cameron calls on Islam to embrace democracy and reject extremism Democracy and Islam can flourish together, David Cameron will declare on Thursday as he uses a landmark speech in Indonesia to tell the Muslim world that it can reject a «dead - end choice» between extremism and dictatorship.

Terrorists or dictatorships who persecute innocent people because they claim it's part of faith are not welcomed — their use of Islam as a scapegoat, does not make Islam what they portray it to be, in fact those false persecutors will be punished themselves by God, «God is the only judge.

U.S. policy toward Latin America has fluctuated between open support of dictatorships and hostility toward movements of liberation, and advocacy of a «restricted democracy,» in which a limited amount of political space is allowed so long as it does not rock the boat too much internally and in the hemisphere.

In the United States, health care providers and others involved in the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warneIn the United States, health care providers and others involved in the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warnein the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warnein the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warned.

Large capital investments in the Third World on the part of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

As an African who sees the reality of everyday life, poverty and political dictatorship, it is not much different from our brother in Iran who pays the price of Islam dictatorship.

It is important to note this distinction, because the religious persecutions which took place in Russia under the dictatorship of Lenin are contrary to the spirit of Marx, as is evident from the last statement of the preceding paragraph.

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

We may well join authentic non-Christian liberals in trying to make future social conditions as tolerable as possible, while avoiding the totalitarian dictatorship of classical communism such as is still practiced today.

The president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freedom.

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.

Also, God's use of power and wrath being employed against the wicked is a great comfort, and even can be a source of joy, to those people who are being dominated by evil authorities, which perhaps is not as evident in the USA today but think of the joy for the people when an evil dictatorship is squashed.

In his scenario, the country fell under a military dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»In his scenario, the country fell under a military dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»).

In an ordinary dictatorship such as Mussolini's thousands of people were arrested for political crimes, but hundreds of these were acquitted by the Italian courts.

By that time, in the latter days of antiquity, democracy had long since ceased to carry its original explosive charge — something like dictatorship of the proletariat, in Marxist terms — and its meaning was reduced to «riot,» a characteristically Byzantine misreading of democracy as merely ochlocracy or mob rule.

Let me explain what the term means... King B Hussien of the United Socialist States of America (USSA) is forcing his will on the people in the same manner as all previous dictatorships.

Noll and Nystrom seem less perturbed than they might be by the ways in which the individualism endemic to Protestantism may have contributed to the contemporary «dictatorship of relativism» castigated by Joseph Ratzinger on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

Condor has taken on added significance in recent years as victims of the dictatorships, their families and foreign governments seek to bring torturers and killers to justice, beginning with Pinochet's 1998 temporary detention in England on a Spanish warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.

And when we stand together, as one humanity, each of us in our little place, but one in our consciousness, one in our solidarity, one in our common commitment to Seed Freedom, and Food Freedom, we are a bigger power than the most brutal corporations, and their dictatorships.

Eddie Howe MAY make an excellent future Arsenal Manager.Now is not his time.We have the money and (new) infrastructure in place to go forward as a club and to do this we need a Manager who is proven and understands the Big Club mentality that will go with the job.Steve McLarens opinion carries no weight and respect from anyone.We now have some very talented and highly respected people that were recruited by Ivan G to give us the backbone to finally move on from the One Man Dictatorship we have been forced to endure since the senseless departure of David Dein.They will identify the targets and I'm sure the list who WANT the job will be many.Eddie Howe will not make that list.Yet.

they both warned, as if we were living in a dictatorship.

But, in contrast to past historical events, such as the military coup that inaugurated the 1964 - 1985 dictatorship, mass media have been, in general, less partisan, less violent and more ambiguous.

He means to say that in the revolution the workers will act as a dictatorship, controlling their former masters.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

Clearly we're not going to be spending the next few years invading every tin pot dictatorship across the globe the second they left a finger against their own people, but we've set a precedent that others will quickly leap on as a pretext: you can imagine Russia claiming it has a responsibility to protect South Ossetia if there are ructions with Georgia again, just as China will if there's a violent uprising in Tibet.

He urged all men of good conscience to stand up to fight against dictatorship, election rigging and the plot to subvert democracy in Nigeria, noting that 2019 general elections is close by and Ekiti as well as Osun elections are prelude to what to expect in 2019.

As a stand - in for «former communist dictatorships», I used the COMECON members and former Yugoslavian or Soviet Republics that are currently EU members.

And as a democracy in a sea of instability and dictatorships, it's a beacon of hope for the whole world.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

His comment has been described by some as a sign of indirect dictatorship as it is not in his place to say who should be approved by Parliament.

In his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (published 1852), he was contrasting the farce of Louis Napoleon's French dictatorship (as Napoleon III, 1851) to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's real power and glory (as Napoleon I, 1799); after the tragic mimicry of Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, as Napoleon II, Emperor - without - Empire of France, after his father, Bonaparte's abdication in 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of RomeIn his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (published 1852), he was contrasting the farce of Louis Napoleon's French dictatorship (as Napoleon III, 1851) to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's real power and glory (as Napoleon I, 1799); after the tragic mimicry of Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, as Napoleon II, Emperor - without - Empire of France, after his father, Bonaparte's abdication in 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of Romein 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of Rome).

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.

Speaking on Norwegian radio, she said Ms Suu Kyi won the prize because of her «role as a freedom fighter in Myanmar and against the military dictatorship».

The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, however, dismissed the $ 2.1 billion arms deal as a scam, noting that «all they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC).

As you can see, the name of CPI Marxist is fraudulent and it is vain to expect anything Marxist (that is, anything comparable to the dictatorship of the proletariat that existed in China, Albania, Soviet Union, etc., etc.) from them.

Worryingly, it seems that as standards slip in the processing of immigration claims and the asylum backlog, the Home Office is making up for it with an increasingly militarised and bullying enforcement operation more reminiscent of a South American dictatorship than a leading western democracy.

Zefzafi, 39, emerged as the leader of the movement by broadcasting passionate speeches online in the local Tarifit dialect from his home or the street, denouncing «corruption» and «dictatorship».

My first thought is about states like Turkmenistan - a dictatorship consistently ranked as the worst in the world.

He has been scathing about Europe's unelected divide - and - rule dictatorship ever since arriving in Brussels as a journalist a lifetime ago.

Nigeria's former Vice President and presidential hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, described APC as the only party standing in the way of dictatorship and one party system in the country.

If one takes your cynical argument to the extreme, we might as well install an actual authoritarian dictatorship in the State since that way we have less people on the public through....