Sentences with phrase «by feudal»

Released last December, it is set in Japan's Edo period (aka the Tokugawa period) when Japan was controlled by its feudal military regime for over 250 years.

Into the Bad Lands centers around a mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons.

Though it would be foolish to pretend a document drawn up by feudal barons contains the answers, the Magna Carta furnishes a rich tradition of resistance to arbitrary power to inspire and orientate contemporary struggles.

Nation - states under monarchs with mounting power were bringing together areas formerly loosely bound together by feudal ties.

This was true to some extent even for the poor within the limits set by feudal landlords and slave owners.

Most of the land there was owned by the feudal chieftains.

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That idea was traumatized by Marxism pushing classical political economy to its logical conclusion — to free capitalism from the carry - overs of the feudal epoch of landlordism, predatory finance and the monopolies that money - lenders obtained from governments.

Antithetical to socialism, this retrogression towards feudal rentier privilege let real estate, financial interests and monopolists exploit the economy by creating an expanding debt wedge.

Thus Afghans would never enlist themselves in the feudal levies commanded by the Iranian Shi`a nobles.

De Rougemont pays little attention to the social arrangements in feudal society which brutalized human marriage by founding it on political and economic convenience.

Now we are ruled with impunity by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded.

And when being persecuted by the rather cruel Feudal Shoguns the priest expresses his thoughts on the silence of god within his suffering.

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

Modern Western civilization arose as men sought to throw off the restrictions of the feudal order and to expand their activities into the wider arenas opened up by commerce and exploration.

The publication of related scientific literature (which up till now has been strictly forbidden and persecuted by the autocratic feudal government) must now form one of the items of our party work.22

Small groups of philosophers, scientists, scholars, and men of letters were increasingly convinced that the rising merchant and bourgeois class were destined by «the laws of nature and history» to replace the aristocrats of the old feudal order.

It is also worth remembering here that feudal society in the Middle Ages was characterized by a descending hierarchy of greater and lesser lords, all the way down to tenant serfs.

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

5 Islamic societies were certainly not so hierarchical as feudal Europe but, just as the laws of Christendom were shaped by the Christian faith, so Shari'a law is based on the teachings of the Qur» an.

Feudal proprietors were driven by «the most childish, the meanest and the most sordid of all vanities».

In sharp contrast to earlier tribal and feudal patterns, the bourgeois family made possible the freedom of a man and woman to choose each other, to live with their children in relative independence from wider kinship groups, and to form a bond in which obligation is reinforced by affection.

In their efforts to curb the feudal magnates the kings were often aided by the bourgeoisie.

It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.

Moreover, by modern standards, the charters were both extremely limited documents — overwhelmingly concerned with feudal administration, with little relevance to those living outside the context of medieval England.

The king could therefore use the increasing prerogative power of the monarchy to raise revenue by arbitrarily adjusting fines, taxes, and feudal obligations (or «incidents»).

By your logic the feudal kingdoms of Europe were socialist because the land was owned by the crown, which could requisition property on a whiBy your logic the feudal kingdoms of Europe were socialist because the land was owned by the crown, which could requisition property on a whiby the crown, which could requisition property on a whim.

Prior reform, the Chief Pleas was dominated by the owners of feudal landholdings on Sark, (called «tenants»).

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

North Norfolk was described by the Earl of Leicester as «the one constituency in England where, in 1964, it was so feudal that it had to be explained to the electors that the ballot was secret.»

(1) Social classes exist in feudal systems in which all productive resources are owned by the government.

The truth is that places for Bishops are an anachronistic feudal hangover, the retention of which is supported not by democratic will or principles of public accountability but by opaque vested interests.»

«Nowadays,» she continued, «people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent.

As for this part... The feudal era acknowledgement of a woman's inequality to men is enhanced by Blanchett's performance as a fully capable equal to Robin both on the battlefield and off.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

The last entry in this particular DBZ game series, Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden, was a 2011 Japan - only DS title developed by the now - defunct Game Republic (famous for their «giant enemy crab» in feudal Japan in the Genji series).

Akira Kurosawa's late - period masterpiece, a feudal spin on King Lear, is a peak of»80s foreign cinema, crafted by a director in youthful command of his epic prowess.

The story takes place in feudal Japan, where Mayor Kobayashi (Nomura) and his cat - adoring people have decided that dogs are bad (as evidenced by dog flu, snout fever, and other symptoms) and a threat to humans, so must be banished to Trash Island (think of the environment in Wall - E); this is despite a noble scientist (Ito) announcing that a cure is imminent.

This brief recap brings us up to date with Nioh as it appears in its current form — A lovingly crafted homage to the precision combat and mechanics of the Soulsborne games, whilst also introducing an RNG loot system inspired by Diablo and Borderlands and transplanting the action from the more European fantasy aesthetic of Miyazaki's aforementioned series to a feudal Japan setting that is more than a little reminiscent of the Onimusha games.

In ancient feudal Japan, an evil Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano) and a witch (Rinko Kikuchi) plot to take over a rival province by disgracing its leader, Lord Asano, and turning its samurai warriors into ronin (i.e. masterless samurai).

Batman Ninja is directed by Junpei Mizusaki with character design by Takashi Okazaki, and is about Batman defending a town in feudal Japan after being transported there by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.

Directed and written by Florian Gallenberger, «John Rabe» is lavishly mounted, with a strong portrayal of Rabe by Ulrich Tukur, the feudal baron in Michael Haneke ’s

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The story follows two Jesuit missionaries who head to feudal Japan in the 1600s in order to locate and rescue their mentor, played here by Liam Neeson.

In the mid-1800s, Marx said that feudal economics was being contradicted by capitalist industrialism, and predicted that these two opposing systems would synthesize or blend into socialism.

The interior will get black lacquer on the center console, the dashboard area above the glove box and doors adorned with KACCHU, the name given to the armour used by Japan's feudal warlords, or samurai, in the Middle Ages.

The Modern Mercenary by Sean McFate looks at the historical role of mercenaries during the feudal era and how they directly contributed to the formation of national armies.

I wanted to write a «fantasy» set in a feudal society, but I wanted to write about real people whose emotions are all the more intense for being restrained by the codes of their society.

The titular city is a mythical land based on feudal China, forever unnamed by its inhabitants, but named over and over by the armies that conquer it, only to lose it to the following army.

The federal estate tax has also been named by detractors as a «death tax» which is a purported reason why it was created, to prevent family dynasties from perpetuating as in feudal times.