Sentences with phrase «barbarism which»

Failure to pay will see your electricity supply cut off, an act of pure barbarism which will only be prevented by the refusal of trade unions to implement it.

For those who look around them at almost every form of institutional life, actions little short of the human barbarism which happened in Nazi Germany are happening here.

The barbarism which threatens us is «synthetic» rather than genuine.»

«For the first time in history,» writes Niebuhr, «the barbarisms which threaten civilization have been generated in the heart of a decadent civilization.

It is one of those inexcusable barbarisms which was sired by indolence and dammed by indifference, and has no more place in legal terminology than the vernacular of Uncle Remus has in Holy Writ.

Not exact matches

They also remembered the skilled but misleading British propaganda of 1914 and afterwards, which had persuaded many Americans that the war against the Kaiser was a crusade against unspeakable barbarism.

Islam is the only «religion» in the world which exercise this sort of barbarism.

Hartshorne's achievement is the less original, for the creator of new language, so long as he is not using barbarisms or neologisms for the sake of it, is the one who enables language to do more in its quest to grasp symbolically the universe in which we do our thinking.

Since there is no alternate version of reality for us to examine, in which the Catholic Church did NOT «save» Europe from barbarism, or whatever, we can't really compare, and can't really say WHAT would have happened without the existence of the Cult of Joshua bar Joseph of Nazareth in Rome.

The Old Testament law, which God himself dictated to man, is filled with barbarism, ra - pe, human sacrifice (here I think of Jephthah's daughter)... and the New Testament even says you shouldn't wear gold or silver, that it's okay to own slaves, that women are to be subordinate, etc..

Which reminds me, in a free associative way, of something Gore Vidal once wrote about the US's march from barbarism to decadence, bypassing civilisation along the way.

Heineman has crafted a film about the barbarism of war, in which ideology blinds its adherents from recognizing the common humanity of others.

He does an amazing chameleonic transformation as Winston Churchill, depicting a moment of history in which Churchill was almost single - handedly fighting to save Western civilization from Nazi barbarism.

This barbaric conduct, which, among others included blockages of humanitarian assistance by the RPF soldiers caused a lot of death, malnutrition and disease.33 Rwandan refugees — survivors of this barbarism, — who live in South Africa or elsewhere, psychologically suffer from these brutalities and trauma associates with them.

The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up.

Both Balogh and Dandarov are New York based artists who witnessed much of the recent barbarism of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkan territories, and their art reflects the turmoil and violence of their memories as well as the current toxic environment in which we live.

Equally, Simpson's uninhabitably shallow architectural spaces remind us of the sheer brutality of contemporary forms of spatial exclusion; in particular the privatisation of public space, in which corporate sovereignty is instated using makeshift architecture, Public Space Protection Orders and the notorious barbarism of anti-homeless spikes and on - the - spot fining.