Sentences with phrase «government run amok»

There is a lot more there about what a godless society and government run amok can do.

Like the Marquis de Sade outfitted for a contemporaneous tangent of the Cold War, director Francis Lawrence reunites with his Hunger Games headliner Jennifer Lawrence for Red Sparrow in what plays like the torture porn version of their previous YA properties in another exploration of insidious governments run amok, crushing its citizens as necessary in the constant struggle for political supremacy.

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The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

«Each co-equal branch of government is there to appropriately check the other branch if it runs amok.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the primary a «royal screw - up,» and described the Board as «an agency run amok,» comparing it to Tammany Hall, a symbol of New York City government's corrupt past.

«The budget director is running amok, and midnight raids on our bank accounts are not responsible government,» said Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, whose office now has to plug a $ 200,000 hole.

Feuding between Democratic and Republican leaders has rendered the U.S. government nearly dysfunctional, with the summer 2011 deficit standoff only the most egregious recent example of gridlock run amok.

Research suggesting that vouchers or charter schools perform badly or well is seen as fueling either a Leviathan government that maintains iron - fisted control of schools or a Wild West scenario in which private school providers run amok and the only consumers who count are those with cash in their pockets.

Our recent decade of rancorous, adversarial attitudes in our own Congress is a government - level example of an individualist, competitive culture run amok (see Eddy and Saposnek, 2012).