Sentences with phrase «from dictatorship»

We could say, for historical comparison, that the transition of Germany from a dictatorship to a successful social democracy required the self doubt and introspection that came with defeat.

The three activists explore the country's passage from dictatorship to democracy as it has affected women.

This is of particular importance in Portugal, as it has only been within the last forty years that the country was able to release itself from dictatorship in a brave and bloodless revolution.

Just Cause 3 follows Rico Rodriguez as he fights to liberate his home city from its dictatorship.

«Then a genuine transition from dictatorship to an inclusive constitutional process can really begin, led by a new generation of leaders.

@user4012 Indeed, as everyone knows the right has been liberal since 10000 BC and is immunised from any dictatorship.

The killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi during last Tuesday's attack on the U.S. mission has upset the delicate political transition from dictatorship to democracy that was unfolding here in Libya.

«[I] t became almost a game,» he wrote: He'd ask each class what they thought should have happened in countries emerging from dictatorship.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

The tyranny comes from dictatorship and not atheism.

Robertson, the founder of Holacracy, countered, «Imagine a country that's going to move from a dictatorship to a democracy.

Politically, by a range of authority from dictatorships to democracy?

Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants — many of them African — drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe from dictatorships, poverty or conflict in countries including; Libya, Syria, Somalia and Eritrea.

Not exact matches

During Spain's 35 - year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Barça fans were banned from singing Catalan songs.

Puigdemont would be not the first Catalan leader to govern the region from abroad — Josep Tarradellas also ran Catalonia while in exile in Paris from 1954 to 1977, during which time Spain was a dictatorship.

Founders told me this dictatorship handed out floor penalties freely and taxed small companies heavily by charging for everything from internet and electricity to trash and sample delivery.

Ramasamy's assertion raised eyebrows around the lecture hall, particularly among the several Guatemalan participants, whose experience of dictatorship, as one woman pointed out to Ramasamy, was far from positive.

And its transition from a military dictatorship to parliamentary democracy is held up as a model for others.

Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

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.

Refineries in eastern Canada are of course being supplied by imported oil, but it's not coming from Middle Eastern dictatorships or revolutionary regimes in South America.

Could there be a more unethical barrel of oil than one from that racist, misogynistic, terror - sponsoring dictatorship?

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

«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.»

On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations. . . .

There is growing hostility from the «dictatorship of relativism» that makes it ever more difficult to serve the traditional family...

That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».

Workers have a difficulty to fight against the plan because they have experienced corruption by illicit collusion between the government and capital from military dictatorship.

Since achieving independence from the U.S - backed dictatorship in 1979, Nicaragua has had only three years of relative peace.

Argentina suffered under a brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, and how the Church and Jesuits reacted to it has been in dispute ever since.

Such challenges come from conventional despotisms and dictatorships and, increasingly, from Islamist versions of a divine right to rule.

The «give me everything free so I can sit on my lazy butt» generation needs to learn a few things from immigrants who suffered under Marxist dictatorships.

Amidst the post-modern confusions, however, Australia is like the rest of the West in that the proponents of «marriage equality» are at the forefront of efforts to impose the dictatorship of relativism, in this instance from Perth to Sydney and at all points in between.

Large capital investments in the Third World on the part of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.

Globalization paradigm has invariably brought a political system - borrowing a term from Prof. Rajni Kothari «dictatorship of money».

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

As an African who sees the reality of everyday life, poverty and political dictatorship, it is not much different from our brother in Iran who pays the price of Islam dictatorship.

It is important to note this distinction, because the religious persecutions which took place in Russia under the dictatorship of Lenin are contrary to the spirit of Marx, as is evident from the last statement of the preceding paragraph.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

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.

After twenty years of dictatorship and deviations from the rules of Islam, Mu`awiya got the confirmation of the people for Yazid, his son, as successor.

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

This long process of education will be necessary to lead peoples away from habits of dictatorship, nationalistic impulses, and the mental sloth of unfree and coercively minded peoples.

Hi, I have a lovely friend from Zimbabwe who is studying for pastor.I don't know if you are aware the awful state of his country under a dictatorship.

The negative goals liberals pursue can be summarized under the heading of the avoidance of evil: to protect the liberty of individuals from «dictatorship, torture, poverty, intolerance, repression, discrimination, lawlessness,» and other affronts to human dignity.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism whichdoes not recognise anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires...» Great stuff, it was, I thought; And that's what I was expecting from his pontificate.

From what I can gather from the media, over time, is that the Assad regime is a secular dictatorship, whereas the rebels are religious extremists seeking «theocracy» like in Egypt and Iran, for examFrom what I can gather from the media, over time, is that the Assad regime is a secular dictatorship, whereas the rebels are religious extremists seeking «theocracy» like in Egypt and Iran, for examfrom the media, over time, is that the Assad regime is a secular dictatorship, whereas the rebels are religious extremists seeking «theocracy» like in Egypt and Iran, for example.

Hitchens, who won the vote among the 2,700 capacity audience by a factor of 2:1, characterised religion as «a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and ordered to be well» creating a «celestial dictatorship» which was «greedy for praise from dawn to dusk.»

For the answer to the messiness of pluralism, when it risks turning into the full - blown dictatorship of relativism (or other forms of dictatorship), is not to construct monistic castles in the sky — an effort in the twenty - first century that will, like similar efforts in the 1930s, come to grief, and from both left and right.

It is still possible, at the moment, to play good defense here, both in terms of public policy and in legally defending Church - based institutions from the assault of the dictatorship of relativism.