Sentences with phrase «dictatorships with»

The legislation will end our freedom and our way of life, and turn our democracies in «eco socialist» dictatorships with unlimited powers.

I'll scour my history books for dictatorships with bicameral legislatures and a separate executive branch and a Constitution.

There is now no balance We are now an elective dictatorship with the tyrany of the majority.

That said: Rome turned from a republic to a dictatorship with relatively little violence.

Nazi Germany was a dictatorship with some control over what was produced.

The USSR tried to implement communism in the real world and was a dictatorship with state - control of the production.

It's like if valve hadn't figured out they could make boatloads of money by ruining the computer game industry and running the most customer - hostile storefront this side of a dictatorship with the worst conceivable customer support, then they would instead be forced to continue making over-rated computer games (or close).

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

Not exact matches

The real dilemmas have to do not with the fact that there are brutal dictatorships in the world, but with the fact that the governments of the world are spread along a spectrum, from fair and democratic to violent and totalitarian.

With the help of Mr. Levant, he nastily branded Ms. Kennedy - Glans as a «Liberal saboteur» and a «bizarre cross between a radical feminist and an apologist for a women - hating Arab dictatorship.»

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

Contrary to the international community's preference for prosecution, other conflicts teach the lesson that replacing dictatorships and civil wars with democracy and a stable peace sometimes requires compromising with dictators and war criminals.

The larger problem with a theology that brings such a singular zeal and gives such an overriding priority to judicial prosecution is that it reserves little attention for the vast suffering that genocides, civil wars, and dictatorships leave even after the tyrants have been replaced and the shooting has stopped.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

The primary political and educational objective for confronting young Germans with their country's darkest past and their ancestors» guilt is, above all, to make them understand the consequences of Hitler's dictatorship, the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and to make them appreciate the values and inst.itutions that protect freedom and democracy.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

The «leaders» are either rulers of dictatorships, politicians with power agendas or local clerics with their own version of islam that is rooted in the traditions of their region.

It was not banality as such but the quotidian nature of the Nazi dictatorship that made coming to terms with Nazism so difficult after as well as between 1933 and 1945.

«The policy», they explained, «involved maintaining dialogue with communist regimes in order to assist the oppressed Church and believers behind the Iron Curtain without legitimising dictatorships.

on the necessity for «empowering the citizen faced with the dictatorship of the market».

What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.

This is a Marxian vision of a paradise where man will be reconciled with himself, with his fellow men, with nature; but the necessary preliminary to this paradise is bloody contention and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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.

I agree with him, but the struggle for religious freedom must be done with care, or else it will actually contribute to the dictatorship of relativism.

George Weigel calls for the Church to «discipline itself» into a narrow public witness addressing religious freedom and life issues only, what he sees as «the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

George Weigel urges the Church to focus its «primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom [because] these are the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

This is the difference between believers and us sensible informed people, we do nt hate you — we just want you to stop bothering us with your silly book and trying to make our country like some islamic dictatorship.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

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.

With the decline of hereditary monarchies over the last two centuries, dictatorship and constitutional democracy have become the two principal forms of government around the world.

1949 — The US helps overthrow the democratically elected government in Syria and replaces it with a military dictatorship

High grid, low group organisations are typically dictatorships and moribund or ossified religious groups where rigid control mechanism dominate all relationships but with little sense of personal belonging or communal purpose, so internal pressures can eventually be explosive.

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 president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freedom.

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.

To combat the dictatorship of relativism, we have to approach the truth with humility.

There is nothing to keep a dictatorship from ruling with an iron fist.

That was under communist dictatorship, for those here, who don't remember dealing with that sort of thing.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

It was religious before, and all that resulted was corrupt dictatorships that the Church supported, with extreme divides between rich and poor which religion did not alleviate, and extreme injustice which religion did not fight.

As Americans we want to foster democracies, not dictatorships; deal fairly with sovereign nations and treat them as friends, not subjects; respect our neighbors more than our corporate markets; and create jobs, not food dependencies.

How can one identify with a set - up which, in most parts of its program, flatly promotes the consumer society and often obeys political dictatorship!

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.

Condor has taken on added significance in recent years as victims of the dictatorships, their families and foreign governments seek to bring torturers and killers to justice, beginning with Pinochet's 1998 temporary detention in England on a Spanish warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.

Endowed by the Lord with all sorts of natural and culture resources, Guinea, paradoxically stagnates in poverty... Democratic freedoms are taken hostage by idealogical trends that can lead to intolerance and dictatorship.

This means fostering democracies, not dictatorships; dealing fairly with sovereign nations and treating them as friends, not subjects; respecting our neighbors more than our corporate markets; and creating jobs, not food dependencies.

Fifth, what of China, which attempts to combine elements of economic freedom with political dictatorship?

(CNN)-- One of the most perplexing aspects of the Syrian revolution is the deep ambivalence felt by so many of the country's Christians when faced with the prospect of freedom after four decades of authoritarian dictatorship.

While Francis never had to deal with the abuse crisis in his native Argentina, he is intimately familiar with the region's experience with military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s.

Pope Francis is to meet with two victims of Chile's military dictatorship during his upcoming trip and is not ruling out a private encounter with victims of clerical sex abuse.