Sentences with phrase «feudal political»

It was the use of fossil fuels which finally created the possibility of a comprehensive break from dependence on land, and the feudal political order that this dependence created.

The BattleTech Universe is one of near - constant warfare and feudal political intrigue, where great noble houses vie for dominance of a vast region of space known as the Inner Sphere.

Steeped in the feudal political intrigue of the BattleTech universe, the game will feature an open - ended Mercenaries - style campaign that blends RPG «Mech and MechWarrior management with modern turn - based tactics.

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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.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

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

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

Indeed, Prussian Pietists found their greatest support from the centralizing state itself, which was struggling to gain control over the feudal aristocracy; so Pietism gradually took on political attitudes that supported absolutism.

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

He also points out, however, that the market system removes some kinds of inequality, such as those in feudal and authoritarian systems in which the people holding political power dictate the economic distribution as well.

Magna Carta is often criticised for its preoccupation with the minutiae of feudal administration — with the immediate political priorities of its aristocratic champions.

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.

explanations include the lack of a feudal heritage, widespread citizen involvement in machine - style political parties (forestalling socialism), a federal system of government, a fast - growing economy, an expanding frontier, an enviable education system, risk - taking immigrants, and a belief in hard work, entrepreneurialism and opportunity.

India has a dynamic political atmosphere with new and emerging issues like the transformation from a traditional and feudal society into a new, technologically advanced society and a good population as members of generation y and z.

The slave owners constituted for the most part a feudal, landowning aristocracy that dominated both the economic and the political life of the South, and indeed to a considerable extent of the nation.

Riots, strikes, and protests in feudal times did not succeed, because lacking a material force means being political impotent.

Private law as suggested above is a return to feudal law in which the political and economic powerful «made» the law and it was by way of political revolutions this legal regime was defeated: English Revolution of the 17th century; American Revolution against the English monarchy and aristocracy; the French Revolution against the Monarchy and Aristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same root cause (s).