Sentences with phrase «by tyrants»

When Europeans left Africa, many predicted their replacement by tyrants as bad or worse.

Whatever other inspirations the» Hunger Games» series draws upon — from» Survivor,» to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie version of» The Running Man,» to the Japanese cult classic that author Suzanne Collins claims she never saw,» Battle Royale» — at its best it's a meditation on the way fear and hope can be used by tyrants to subjugate the masses.

My Witherspoon Institute colleague, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights Chen Guangcheng, will speak at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. next Tuesday, June 3, at 2:00 p.m., to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, perpetrated by the tyrants of....

This does not make only the USA guilty of great wrongs done / there's many nations ruled by tyrants / psychopaths / / those blinded by greed the great injustice by Israel against palestinians but sums up the horror that nations being capable of committing / heartless acts of inhumanity of cruelity / / based on halfbaked ideas / beliefs / religious brainwashing.

Judah was an occupied land, victimized by tyrants foreign and domestic.

Atheist Hunter The atheist leaders, as you call them, had followers that participated in crimes against humanity that were ordered by these tyrant leaders no doubt.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

If you live in a time and place that is ruled over by a tyrant and you follow their laws in fear, you have not done anything wrong by doing so.

I hope I live long enough to see the day that Wenger's decides to go but I will be an Arsenal fan as long as I live but being a fan to me does not mean you close your eyes to a terrible owner and to the fact that the club has lost its identity and is now ran by a tyrant who doesn't allow character in the people and players around him.

In a subplot, there is the preacher named Cort (Crowe, Gladiator), who has a sordid past of his own and who is forces by the tyrant to enter the competition or die.

The Aether, was introduced in «Thor: The Dark World» as the object that spawned a war between the Asgardians and an evil race of Dark Elves led by a tyrant named Malekith.

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin.

Unfortunately, things kind of get a bit out if hand when intellectuals of all types become targets for murder by a tyrant's roaming militia intent on keeping the people uneducated and (mostly) harmless.

And in the fall, Brad Phillips» debut story collection, Never Forget to Not Forgive, will be published by Tyrant Books — a publisher I turn to when I'm in the mood to «be devastated», and this book is no exception.

In a workplace ruled by a tyrant, it only takes one savvy employee to remind the others of their rights as workers.

Not exact matches

Yieldify CEO Jay Radia said the company does not comment on ongoing legal cases, but slammed Bounce Exchange as a «tyrant» and asserted that Yieldify «will not get bullied by any organisation that brings forward frivolous and unfair claims and misuse legal systems for their advantage.»

Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can achieve optimal creativity and success if you feel that you're liked, supported, and respected by them.»

When a looming, make - or - break deadline has outed your inner tyrant, take charge of yourself and surprise your team by being nice.

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry holt, 352 pages, $ 30 A nnihilating a civilization that has withstood more famines, invasions, peasant revolts, civil wars, and tyrants than historians can keep straight takes work.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

No criminal justice system in the history of the Human race, even those established by the most despotic of tyrants, comes close to matching the unfathomable barbarity of this «infinitely benevolent» god.

The universe itself, as described by science, may be seen as our Mother but it can also be a capricious Tyrant who could destroy all of us in the blink of an eye and with less effort at any moment (supernova, asteroid, etc).

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

No criminal justice system in the history of the Human race, even those established by the most despotic of tyrants, comes close to matching the unfathomable barbarity of your «infinitely benevolent» god.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler) for some years.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler).

Christian countries can get violated by criminal tyrants.

Some of the early pages of his work contrast Christ, who loves humanity and is despised for it, with the tyrant who despises humanity and is idolized by the people nonetheless.

As Green observes, «The book is unique in being the only ethic written by a Lutheran theologian while engaged in a conspiracy to topple a tyrant.»

That image of the philosopher - king's perfect freedom as philosopher and as king is the tyrant's dream of perfect freedom from who he is by nature.

Adam and Eve did not make «aprons,» since kitchens had not yet been invented, but «loincloths» (Gen. 3:7) The RSV's «great men» are now «magnates» (Rev. 6:15) who behave like «tyrants» (RSV: «exercise authority» — Mark 10:42) The stilled sea is «a dead calm» (RSV: «great calm» — Mark 4:39), and acting «by nature» is now to «do instinctively» (Rom.

The allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

If anger can be justified by disobedience, then tyrants will rule.

At the midrange level, control is achieved by moving the tyrant inside the individual — Maggie Scarf refers to the «Invisible Referee,» Efforts to control thoughts and feelings as well as behavior refer to rules for behavior and cultural stereotypes, especially regarding gender.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

If that is the case your god is a petty tyrant unworthy of worship by crushed worm gunk /.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

It is applied by a power - hungry tyrant who thinks he is stronger than you and will do everything in his power to make you submit and bow the knee to his rule.

But he distinguishes among tyrants, as follows: If the prince is a tyrant by reason of the origin of his power (usurpation, violence): in this case, every citizen has the duty of killing him.

The jokers who are feeding this frenzy by supporting a tyrant and terrorist Terry Jones in his own sense are no better.

Too often, alas, this faith has been obscured if not denied by the introduction into our thought about God of notions that, as we have seen, are more appropriate to imperial Caesar or a despotic tyrant than to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Secondly there have always been dictators and tyrants willing to remain in power by whatever means possible.

Any god that accepts, or worse demands, sacrifice is by definition a tyrant.

George W. Bush's administration imagined itself bringing freedom to Iraq (and by extension to the rest of the Middle East), confident that, released from the grip of a tyrant, ordinary people will become American, or at least friendly to America.

He is a three - year - old culinary tyrant, with tastes that change by the day — sometimes by the minute.

Regardless of fixtures this man will stay at least one more year, if we were to change Managers on the Summer we should have been looking by now, and without a doubt Le Fraud will be involved on who will be his successor, so is the worst kept secret that the deal is sealed between the useless Board and the megalomaniac tyrant.

So many of our grandparents and parents were influenced by this mechanistic train of thought, pressured by the experts to believe that if they picked up their babies when they cried that that they would create a tyrant of a child and become enslaved.