Sentences with phrase «at dictatorships»

The more serious material takes aim at dictatorships and authoritarian government, like a zany pop culture representation of Orwell's prediction of a «boot stamping on a human face — forever».

Not exact matches

In the 20th century, democracy trumped dictatorships because the governing system was better at processing data and making decisions.

«This order demonstrates more clearly than ever that the United States will not allow an illegitimate dictatorship to take hold in the Western Hemisphere at the expense of its people,» national security adviser H.R. McMaster said at the time.

A workplace shouldn't be a dictatorship — at least not if you want people sticking around.

He directed some final jabs at Michael Dell, reiterating that he still thought the founder's buyout offer was too low, and compared the company's board — which postponed the shareholder vote numerous times and changed the voting rules to better Michael Dell's takeover chances — to a dictatorship.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

Dom Helder Camara, the diminutive Brazilian archbishop who symbolizes Christian opposition to military dictatorship not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America, was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at Harvard University in 1974.

Truth is objective and unchanging: At the very beginning of his encyclical, Francis invokes «my predecessor, Benedict XVI,» who famously assailed the «dictatorship of relativism» — a critique Francis endorsed shortly after he became pope and now expands upon in Laudato Si.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

Amidst the post-modern confusions, however, Australia is like the rest of the West in that the proponents of «marriage equality» are at the forefront of efforts to impose the dictatorship of relativism, in this instance from Perth to Sydney and at all points in between.

This would destabilize society no less than, say, the dictatorship of the minority that we can observe at times in the West.

It is possible that, at some future moment, the U.S. military could actually take over the government and declare a dictatorship (though its commanders would undoubtedly find a gentler, more user - friendly name for it).

The Nazis were an absolutist dictatorship that used a mix of socialist and capitalist economic systems, depending on what was convenient to them for meeting their goals at the time.

The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention centre used during the country's brutal dictatorship.

It is still possible, at the moment, to play good defense here, both in terms of public policy and in legally defending Church - based institutions from the assault of the dictatorship of relativism.

We need to destroy a dictatorship to replace it with a strategy that would bring back the glory days at this football club.

I would love to see different formations, and tactics, being used at Arsenal, but it'll never happen in a million years under Wenger's dictatorship.

When a governing body goes unquestioned at all times, its activities are not being scrutinised, dictatorship is born.

The only club in top 5 leagues in europe not to sign a single outfield player when it was clear that there were deficiencies in KEY areas.We are going to exit the champions league for a sixth successive year only at round 16 stage.The frenchman was waiting for the FA to be a scapegoat for was had already been a dump season.i can sense and feel that the REIGNS OF WENGER ARE COMING TO A CLOSURE and we will finally be free from the shackles of dictatorship!!!

The Arsenal fans rarely express their opinion with boos and banners (who were confiscated at some games so that nobody expresses anything against him — kinda like a dictatorship don't you think?)

Ex-Chelsea man Chris Sutton believes that Wenger has been allowed to continue his role without question as he is running a «dictatorship» at the Emirates Stadium and has slammed the 67 - year - old for not having the fans» interest at heart.

These forces are at liberty to do everything in the shadows because the FA is useless, the PIGMOB is a dictatorship, the media have their own self - serving agenda, the authorities are too busy pretending to care, the EPL is image - conscious but in a negative way, the teams don't want to rock the boat (including Arsenal), some players are so greedy that bribing is easily inculcated, and so on.

Why a party that has long promoted the idea of pluralism in the expression of political ideas and always fought any kind of dictatorship be it civilian or military would allow this baseless assumption to simmer down and engulf its entirety can only be explained by Nana Addo and his clique of latter - day militants whose venom is only expressed at home but NOT outside our NPP borders.

If the Conservatives succeed in implementing English - only days at Westminster, it is likely to transform both Scotland and the rest of the UK into what will in effect be neoliberal dictatorships.

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).

Fernando Mathei, Evelyn's father, was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, while Alberto Bachelet, Michelle's father, opposed 1973 coup and was imprisoned and tortured for several months until his death in 1974 at the hands of the dictatorship.

The libertarian right warned ofan uprising even by non-smokers at this nanny state dictatorship.

Speaking in Bolgatanga on day 1 of his 2 - day tour of the region, on Thursday, September 17, Nana Akufo - Addo stated Ghanaians, after years of dictatorship, have accepted multi-party democracy and will no longer tolerate acts aimed at cowing the citizenry into submission.

On May 24, 2011 at the Nissan Centre, St. Antony's College, the book «The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy» was launched.

There's also quite a bit of objective evidence that at least in practice, governments that claimed to be communist simply haven't worked particularly well (and regardless of intent, most have turned into totalitarian dictatorships very quickly).

And so the Constitution protects us from tyranny both by protecting rights and by preventing a slide in to dictatorship, at least in theory.

But while fiercely protective of their language, culture and autonomy — restored at the end of the 1939 - 1975 dictatorship of Francisco Franco — Catalans are deeply divided on independence.

«The majority of the refugees arriving on European shores in the last year have come from countries that are at war, in conflict or under dictatorship.»

At the end of the day, though, Stack Exchange Inc. has final say in all matters, and if we assume Stack Exchange Inc. as a single entity then we are talking about a benevolent dictatorship, a (mostly benign) authoritarian form of government.

The president's increasingly bellicose rhetoric aimed at North Korea has pushed the US and the communist dictatorship to the brink of nuclear war, according to the North's foreign minister.

Mr Ken Addo has been at the forefront of leading the Law Students of Ghana against what they called the «dictatorship» of the General Legal Council and was only days ago, seen charging on the authorities further.

Corbyn who was voted in with 121,000 (49 %) of full party members obviously has grass roots support but the Labour party is not yet run by a dictatorship and it needs to be remembered that MPs represent not just Labour party members but the 9 million poeple who voted Labour at the last election.

During Argentina's military dictatorship, which ended in 1983, at least 9,000 civilians were murdered and more than 20,000 people «disappeared.»

«Ultimately my message to scientists, especially those of my generation, is that science and scientists are too important and powerful to be at the service of inhumane activities or to the consolidation of dictatorships.

At a hearing last week, supporters of lifting the ban said the move is needed to help Libya rebuild global ties after decades of international sanctions during the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi.

At the post-awards press conference, Almodóvar praised the «brilliant» film for taking on «the dictatorship of being politically correct,» which he decried as being just as awful as any actual dictatorship.

In addition, despite the presence of an all - powerful police state dictatorship which can rip young people from the arms of their families at will, the populace dresses like rejects from any city's Gay Pride parade, with hairdos similar to the Whos of Whoville.

I'd been a big fan of the director's previous two pictures, «Tony Manero» and «Post Mortem,» dark, but quite different pictures that both looked at his nation in the years when it was being ruled by General Pinochet's dictatorship.

King Arthur was written by David Franzoni, the man also responsible for the historical farce that is Gladiator, which asserts that by overthrowing the decadent and fascistic dictatorship of the cruel Roman Emperor Commodus, a group of high - minded nobles and warriors will (did) bring freedom (that word again) to the backwards peoples of the Empire, which is, of course, the opposite of what actually happened in Rome (and Iraq, so far at least).

At which point the inevitable flashbacks pull into the station, revealing Amadeu's life in the resistance against the dictatorship rule of Salazar.

Sleeper — In this, the greatest of Woody Allen's pure comedies, he gets himself unfrozen at some point in the future, impersonates a robot, woos Diane Keaton and attempts to overthrow the 1984-esque dictatorship.

In abstract, I realize some interlinks between Monsanto and his production of agricultural biotechnology genetically engineered (GE), and the possibility that some multinational is working right now with the human genome to create superhumans at the service of some dictatorship.

Knowing that cars had to be designed by someone, that they did not just happen, motivated him to study industrial design at La Plata University, but student political activity during the years of the military dictatorship closed the school for three years.

The artist built a similar structure in 1983 when Argentina's dictatorship fell, and at the end of the installation period, they tipped the structure over so people could get the books.

Sure iPhone has flourished under Apple's dictatorship though the entire thing depended on Apple control remaining benign at best.