Sentences with phrase «by aristocracy»

But under the onerous terms imposed by the aristocracy, debtors who could not pay their debts could be enslaved.

To wit: Modern environmentalism and it's subsets ie: CAGW etc. is born out of a 19th century counter revolutionary push to industrialism by aristocracy, arch conservatives and reactionaries.

They were sought out by the aristocracy and used to hunt feathered game.

As much as we love our pups today, believe it or not, up until the industrial revolution, keeping dogs purely for companionship was a luxury enjoyed mainly by the aristocracy.

In post-WWII England, amateur sports were ruled by an aristocracy for whom fairness was selectively enforced — and the fact that John Tarrant once received $ 20 for a boxing match meant a permanent ban from his true passion, distance running.

On the opposite page (Report, 12 May) you talk of «Labour's past failure to reform the Lords» in a report about some hypothetical plan of Clegg's, while Labour actually ended hundreds of years of rule by aristocracy.

France, in the throws of the revolution had huge issues with the church and clergy which owned most of the land and were trying to co-opt the revolution and create a theocracy by installing the church into the vacancy left by the aristocracy.

Religion was created by the aristocracy to control the people that they ruled.

Not exact matches

By now the world knows which members of the technology aristocracy attended president elect Donald Trump's tech summit.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

Further, Geck's suggestion that stylistic differences in Bach's Leipzig cantatas were colored by the larger sociological desires of a bourgeoisie wishing to enjoy the full range of musical entertainments available to the aristocracy is intriguing and may prove to be persuasive.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

The opinion of the catholic proletariat has not been represented by catholic aristocracy for hundreds of years now.

And in this world the drift toward perpetuating these inequalities by one form of aristocracy or another is powerful.

If we compare and contrast the aristocratic character of rock with that of disco, by using the two films in question, we see that disco's aristocracy is more natural, whereas rock's is more heroic.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

The rejection of aristocracy, whether by a democracy, by communism, or by some other collectivist system, does not, however, entail opposition to manners as such, but only to aristocratic manners.

The feudal aristocracies of the Middle Ages were one by one overturned by the forces of modern political, economic, and religious life.

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

Instead of subordinating artisans and entrepreneurs to the founding aristocracy, as the ancient city had done, the medieval city was ruled by a combination of grand bourgeoisie and small capitalists.

The enlarging sphere of state management in the economy, paralleled by the emergence of an enormous military - CIA machine that engages in thousands of secret acts not subject to popular perusal, has brought the nation to a new configuration of power, a new type of aristocracy.

So if Tocqueville is right that the partial truth of democracy needs to be corrected by the partial truth of aristocracy to properly appreciate both who we are and what human liberty really is, then lots of political philosophy types need to look to the South more than they have.

An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by Benjamin R. Barber Ballantine Books, 370 pages, $ 20 «In the spring of 1988,» writes Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers, «[University] President Edward Bloustein gave a....

The vision of social civility bequeathed us by the Enlightenment with the collaboration of religious institutions extended classical Greek and Roman concepts of democracy from an aristocracy to the life of the people, giving us a truly participatory democracy in the early years of the republic.

In contrast with the monastic movements, initiated, with the exception of the Franciscans, largely by members of the aristocracy, their original leadership was chiefly in the newly emerging urban population.

Aristotle, for example, was sympathetic to the landed aristocracy — who appropriate for themselves the lion's share of nature's bounty — and hostile to merchants, who earn a living by exploiting the «unnatural» fecundity of money in the marketplace.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

The Queen was put on the throne by a conspiracy of the commoners who in this way were able to join forces with the Andriana aristocracy more favorable to Christianity and very sensitive to the possibilities of modernization which it offered.

Merteuil in turn is ostracized by the outraged aristocracy.

The existing paganism insisted on a hierarchy of aristocracy being served by slaves.

They see their club as the pinnacle of the footballing aristocracy, and every other club as a being supported by a bunch of lower class loonies who live in such wholly unacceptable places as, well, for example, Manchester.

Aristocracy: From the Carthaginians, to the early romans, many societies were run by the powerful, as a group.

«Positive internal reforms of the traditional institution are increasingly being driven by a broad coalition of the thought leaders in the communities, such as the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), rather than a small clique of the aristocracy.»

He espoused a civil society upheld by, as he saw it, the then pillars of civilisation: constitutional monarchy, state church, and parliament representing the aristocracy.

By the Aristotelian conception of the Politic Systems there are 3 fundamental political systems: the monarchy, the aristocracy and the republic, with their 3 corruption forms: the tyranny, the oligarchy and the democracy.

According to the Wikipedia entry, this type of democracy is essentially calling for a Democratic Republic, in direct opposition to a society ruled by a Monarch and the Aristocracy (i.e. Britain at the time, maybe also today).

«Usually what is documented by writers about a state administration are the historical moments, not the daily life of the aristocracy,» Prado de Mello says.

At the same time, the opposite tack is being taken by services such as Captcha King, mentioned earlier in the Craigslist - spammer arms race, that advertise a series of aristocracy - themed payment plans (Royal, Imperial, and Emperor) for CAPTCHA solutions sold in batches of thousands.Their method, which integrates with spamming software like automated Craig - slist posting engines, Jiffy Gmail Creator, and MySpace bots, retrieves the CAPTCHA images «for manual entry.»

It was gradually adopted by most of the Indian aristocracy, and later by the general population, and was considered in Muslims as the noble dress.

Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Throughout his life, the popular — if anarchic — member of the Royal Academy of Arts travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Based off of Edward St. Aubyn's award - winning series of novels, Patrick Melrose is a scathing examination of British decadent aristocracy, adapted into a five - part miniseries by Sky Atlantic and Showtime.

The aristocracy of family so deplored by Jefferson seems upon us; the counter-aristocracy of merit that long defined America as the land of opportunity has receded.

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

The aristocracy are distinguished from the lower classes by one significant and immediately noticeable trait: The lower classes emit thick black smoke — or, as it appears here, Smoke.

I was fascinated both by his sheer skill and by the faces of the new Tudor aristocracy he was drawing, enriched by the very recent dissolution of the monasteries and getting fat on the spoils they'd looted.

Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.