Sentences with word «dictatorial»

Similarly, paintings like Picasso's Guernica have gotten under the skin of dictatorial regimes.

Without knowing it, what they are saying is that there should be no difference in the way dictatorial regimes ruled Ghana, and the way a constitutional democratic government should rule Ghana.

And North Korea flowered following a surprisingly benevolent relinquishment of dictatorial power.

I like school choice and I enjoy that charter schools give teachers the opportunity to use and their abilities and talents, but I'm not looking for a charter management organization whose CEO will try to impose his or her will in dictatorial form on a group of schools.

«You can hear a quiet grumbling among Silver's members, who say the secret negotiations marked a return of the sort of dictatorial style that led to an attempted coup on his leadership nine years ago.»

Ideally both groups are committed to peace and disarmament, but some Christians find it difficult to take a pacifist, nonviolent line because they are compassionately involved with liberation movements seeking to overthrow dictatorial governments.

So insistent are the pressures that even peoples who are not yet prepared to assume the responsibilities of self - government claim their independence and then pay a heavy price in internal chaos and strife, with the likelihood of having to settle for order by dictatorial power rather than by consent.

The Middle East is going through huge changes, with dictatorial regimes being challenged and swept away — in some instances relatively smoothly and yet in others, tragically bloodily.

«Its nature would be supportive not adversarial; advisory not dictatorial; empowering not punitive.»

Y ’ all calling for Dein, I got a feeling Wenger stabbed David in the back just so he'd be the all - controlling dictatorial boss.

Bartlett imagines a Prince of Wales who has been unwittingly training himself for dictatorial self - assertion.

«People were anxious to be part of a new form of governance only for such expectations to be cut short with yet another form of dictatorial leadership under Obasanjo.

In Vienna, delegates from dictatorial countries proposed to rectify the «deplorable gap» between rich and poor countries by massive transfers of wealth, without conditions, of course, on the recipients.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino owns the Republican nomination and, as CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Thursday, he has cast Gov. Andrew Cuomo as dictatorial in a new campaign movie.

He has succeded in drowning his party with his autocratic and dictatorial ways.

Rusesabagina had dared to criticize Rwanda's dictatorial President Paul Kagame in a 2006 book.

The theory was that such a president would have no self - interest and let people get on with their lives without unnecessary interference by a narcissistic or dictatorial leader»

Not least is that South Africa is trying to present a less dictatorial face to the outside world.

It will be interesting to see the BBC's response - «David Cameron came under fire today for employing unpatriotic, petty criminals - cum - anarchistic terrorists in his front bench team...» I am increasingly perplexed that a Labour Party, which when in opposition was always first to criticise the Thatcher Govt's for strong arm tactics that restricted freedom of speach, is becoming so dictatorial in office.

This book takes the view that governments will become dictatorial as they get more desperate.

Shut up and don't move because I am the overpowering dictatorial god.

This may be because before, they tolerated a more dictatorial management style, but now they've realized that they have nothing to lose by challenging you, in the hopes that they will see changes.»

But then, Islamic states which are supposed to dispense «Sharia Justice» are no more «just» than other dictatorial states (as we have learned through the examples of «Hitler's» Germany, and Gadhafi's» Libya to name but two among the many failed states, and Caliphates which are often bloody to the same extreme).

At a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida, Gingrich continued by calling the decision «a direct violation of freedom and religion - an example of the increasingly dictatorial attitude of this administration.»

Though the term arose when the nations were monarchies, and it had a more realistic symbolism then than now, it connotes power exercised, not in arbitrary dictatorial authority, but in loving concern.

As the DfE's direction since 2010 has been to move away from top - down prescription, calls for statutory limits on working time and enforced work - life balance policies not only run contrary to this strategy but the likelihood of such dictatorial tools making a significant difference is debatable at best.

Note that even people supposedly wedded to democratic ideas easily slide into «I want moar power to achieve this beneficial goal» and as much as possible, sliding into more dictatorial and less democratic process.

In an open letter to the membership, Jack Gordon, a board official from 2012 to 2014, defended Mr. Barbieri's December re-election and wrote: «The league based on dictatorial rule and fear described by ASL 2025 is not the Art Students League that I know and experience, it is one of pure fabrication.»

¹ André Bazin and the late Eric Rohmer, especially, championed the moral as well as aesthetic superiority of mise en scène over montage, of Hawksian «invisible cutting» over dictatorial Eisensteinian editing, and of deep - focus over a more selective, shallow depth - of - field.

Its about an increasingly dictatorial govt clampinmg down on freedom of inquiry into the govt's policies.

In part, the show's themes have grown too dictatorial, although they do wonders to organize so huge a show.

And perhaps the next governor should adopt emergency - like dictatorial power.

New EPA boss promises dictatorial action on global warming While speaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Gina McCarthy, the new head of the EPA, said Wednesday the administration is finished waiting on Congress and is set to...

Paternalistic: Paternalistic management is also very dictatorial, but includes the best interests of the employees as well as the business itself.

It is public knowledge that Dasuki had served previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida but was against dictatorial regime of General Sani Abacha, before he sought asylum outside the country where he teamed up with other Nigerians in the Diaspora to campaign against that military dictatorship and entrenchment of democracy.

12 years with out a title, a tired embittered dictatorial manager lost in past glories screams out for change.

«My wife and I made the strange decision to take our kids to go see it and, ever since, every time I do anything vaguely what they would call dictatorial, it's, «Oh, Mr. Woodcock, are you a spy?

The infant union hoisted its neck resolutely against the tyrannical and dictatorial policies in our barely 18 year old independent fatherland.

In this context, leaders are far more effective when they replace the cocky dictatorial act with a more collaborative approach.

In some, such as Spain, their adoption may have been helped by memories of more dictatorial forms of rule.