Sentences with phrase «by dictatorships»

Post-Tsar Russia, post-colonial Africa, South America - you find numerous examples, where the overthrowing of authoritarian regime has resulted in a short period of quasi-democracy, quickly replaced by dictatorships.

So unless people want to have the truth they've spoken «twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools» they might want to avoid going on TV stations run by dictatorships.

After all, there is a kind of social peace imposed by dictatorships.

Torture (and that's what the «enhanced interrogation techniques» amount to, even if it is not torture as heinous as that routinely practiced by dictatorships) is definitely not an «American value.»

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 warned.

After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.»

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

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.

The reality is that the summit in Copenhagen and it's attendees are providing a platform, and in some cases actively pushing for a policy enforced by a dictatorship that actively hunts down mothers who become pregnant with their second child, abducts them off the street and takes them to government controlled hospitals where they are drugged and their baby is killed — all in the name of saving the planet.

Not exact matches

Founders told me this dictatorship handed out floor penalties freely and taxed small companies heavily by charging for everything from internet and electricity to trash and sample delivery.

A lot of outsiders do seem to think the dictatorship can be brought down by breaking its monopoly on information.

The Colorado Republican said passage of his bill is time sensitive given the actions taken by the Maduro regime and the suffering within the country, which he warns could become the next Cuban - style dictatorship.

CARACAS A group of Venezuelan rock bands hope to popularize songs against President Nicolas Maduro by handing out a CD called «Rock Against Dictatorship» during a summit of Latin American and North American countries in Lima this week.

Refineries in eastern Canada are of course being supplied by imported oil, but it's not coming from Middle Eastern dictatorships or revolutionary regimes in South America.

It has become a code - word for pro-American policies and hence a dictatorship by the banking and financial interests.

Maduro, whose regime has been widely labeled a dictatorship, didn't say whether the cryptocurrency would be used by ordinary Venezuelans to buy groceries, medicines or other basics.

To offer one example, victims of war and dictatorship often find their suffering forgotten or ignored by the surrounding community and cry out for recognition.

There are also countries run by Kings (a form of dictatorship, depending on what political science book you read) that are our allies and doing as well for their people as congress does for ours.

Can it be that power corrupts people to the point that — no matter their philosophy — they behave in very similar ways: denial, anger, dictatorship (of business or church), avoidance by attacking, creating enemies for the sake of gaining unity, and each promising to «make American (or Christianity) great again»?

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

Then, Schmitz and Julia discuss The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, the new book by Robert Cardinal Sarah.

Workers have a difficulty to fight against the plan because they have experienced corruption by illicit collusion between the government and capital from military dictatorship.

For many people, any mention of social planning suggests dictatorship, and socialism becomes therefore almost by definition a recipe for tyranny.

If we are going to rule by executive order and the whims of the President we might as well just shut down Congress and become the dictatorship that Obama obviously wants.

(of) dictatorships of the right or left but also pseudodemocracies turned shortsighted by obsessions such as anti-communism.»

• A U.S. aid package to Nicaragua approved by the U.S. Congress in 1980, a year after the ouster of the U.S. - backed dictatorship, targeted the most reactionary business organization for substantial aid.

When the Chinese dictatorship is replaced by a more humane regime» and one may reasonably think it is more a matter of when than if» the Christian proposal could have a world - transforming effect in aligning that society with the cause of human dignity.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

Now the Islamic En - Nahda was elected by many people of Tunisia and there is high danger that they change Tunisia into an Islamic dictatorship like the NSDAP changed Germany into a National Socialist state.

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.

Hugely more deaths have been cause by atheist dictatorships e.g. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao.

Free a $ $ embly of any type is generally oppressed by dictators, which is why religion is either controlled, or suppressed in dictatorships.

Today we witness police states and military dictatorships that justify their actions by appealing to the necessities of «socialist revolution,» «national security,» or both.

Others thought the formula «dictatorship of relativism» a neat summary of a grave threat to freedom and believed that a man with the courage to call things by their true names would make a fine pontiff.

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

And though apartheid and dictatorships have been placed by electoral politics, the management of public affairs in these countries remains weak, and democratic in name only.

By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.

Cobb even gives us one concrete example, claiming that «in Nicaragua the Christian conscience sided with the use of relatively limited violence to bring an end to massive structural violence by a corrupt dictatorship» and that «this is surely a gain worth the price paid» (PTT 107).

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

By the time I came to write Nemesis, I no longer doubted that maintaining our empire abroad required resources and commitments that would inevitably undercut, or simply skirt, what was left of our domestic democracy and that might, in the end, produce a military dictatorship or — far more likely — its civilian equivalent.

By this way of thinking, the same values that inspired Polish Catholicism and Pope John Paul II to resist communist dictatorship should now shape a new democratic Ukraine.

The Nicaraguan revolution that ousted a bloody U.S. - backed dictatorship in 1979 was one of the first revolutions in history that was not followed by a vengeful bloodbath.

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 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.

Had not the greedy miner, backed by the only country that considers the slaughter of women and children in time of peace to be a legitimate tactic, and also the country that has created the most dictatorships in history, not run his thugs into independent countries, apartheid probably would not have happened.

Hut all too soon it was replaced by one - party dictatorships, two - party oligarchies, or multi-party chaos.

By contrast, a dictatorship can more easily control those vested interests that seek to slow down or dismantle the government's economic policies.

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.