Sentences with phrase «into dictatorships»

Obviously, the «scientists» that are pushing us all into dictatorships either are incapable of figuring out how to get real temperatures, or are flat out lying.

George Lucas has said he wrote it as a Nixon - era parable for the Vietnam War, about how democracies turn into dictatorships.

Only a civil society so rooted is capable of sustaining pluralist democracy without imploding into chaos or sinking into the dictatorship of relativism.

Keith Price, elected to the park board in 2003, said Patterson turned the park board into a dictatorship.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

Why would keeping Jezza out of No 10 mean we turn into a dictatorship?

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The most obvious way migrants could use blockchain technology to securely store money while traveling would be to convert cash into digital currency, but Soros dismissed the value of cryptocurrency, making clear he believed its primary appeal was «for tax evasion» and «the rulers of dictatorships.»

There was some irony in these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorships.

Now the Islamic En - Nahda was elected by many people of Tunisia and there is high danger that they change Tunisia into an Islamic dictatorship like the NSDAP changed Germany into a National Socialist state.

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.»

By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.

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.

Had not the greedy miner, backed by the only country that considers the slaughter of women and children in time of peace to be a legitimate tactic, and also the country that has created the most dictatorships in history, not run his thugs into independent countries, apartheid probably would not have happened.

King B Hussein isn't staying out, he is forcing his dictatorship ideals into both arenas.

Will you keep saying the same thing when the conservative fascists continue to turn this country into a theocratic dictatorship?

Also prayer is a personal thing between humans and God, none of this fanatical ideology goes down well, in the west nor in the east, when it becomes this way it turns into fanaticism and dictatorship.

John Dinges puts the Pinochet regime into an international perspective and signals again the need for atonement for the many versions of Villa Grimaldi that the U.S. quietly ignored during the highly repressive Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s.

The dictatorship of relativism has a bureaucratic vocabulary that's finding its way into the Synod.

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.

We are now a joke club under a dictatorship that simply is determined to drive the club into mediocrity.

If the Conservatives succeed in implementing English - only days at Westminster, it is likely to transform both Scotland and the rest of the UK into what will in effect be neoliberal dictatorships.

With the major exception of the USA, presidential forms have a much greater tendency to degenerate into autocracies or dictatorships.

One needs to remember that Capitalism had centuries to mature into the state it is in now - it had bloody revolutions, dictatorships, etc..

Speaking in Bolgatanga on day 1 of his 2 - day tour of the region, on Thursday, September 17, Nana Akufo - Addo stated Ghanaians, after years of dictatorship, have accepted multi-party democracy and will no longer tolerate acts aimed at cowing the citizenry into submission.

There's also quite a bit of objective evidence that at least in practice, governments that claimed to be communist simply haven't worked particularly well (and regardless of intent, most have turned into totalitarian dictatorships very quickly).

People's democratic dictatorship is a phrase incorporated into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong, leader the Communist Party of China (CPC).

However, there is a couple of examples in my mind where more or less democratic systems evolved into either very flawed democracies or dictatorships, without any military intervention or any extremist groups overtaking the government.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

«We are certainly descending into a deeper dictatorship trajectory than we have ever witnessed in our polity even during military interregnum.

With an unprecedented legal summons from Parliament's most senior officials forcing them into a dramatic U-turn, Business Secretary Vince Cable said the humbling of the Murdoch empire was «a little bit like the end of a dictatorship».

It's further complicated by the fact that Gerardo has accepted appointment as head of an investigation into the past crimes of the dictatorship - an inquiry that Paulina believes will be a whitewash.

My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame — within which things are just observed — and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants» feet, under their skin, and into their hearts.»

At which point the inevitable flashbacks pull into the station, revealing Amadeu's life in the resistance against the dictatorship rule of Salazar.

Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) is the well - to - do wife of a lawyer (Stuart Wilson's Gerardo Escobar) who has recently been appointed to head up an investigation into human rights violations perpetrated by the former dictatorship of their anonymous Latin American country.

In the case of Burma, some suggest — like the above article — that travelers are discouraged from visiting the country in order to prevent more money falling into the hands of a corrupt government / dictatorship.

A lot of blood and sweat goes into maintaining a successful dictatorship.

As the descendant of political dissidents in Fascist Spain, Fernández was born in 1980 into a newly liberated country still reckoning with the legacy of Franco's dictatorship.

From 1972 until the early 1990s, a military dictatorship under the rule of Augusto Pinochet plunged Chile into total darkness and silence.

Born into the military dictatorship of Park Chung - hee, Lee made her study of sculpture an outlet for her dissidence.

Nearby, the Santiago de Chile gallery Aninat Isabel presented photographic documentation from Lotty Rosenfeld's ongoing action art (since 1979) for which the artist uses white tape to transform highway median strips into crosses, thus protesting dictatorship and signs of hegemonic power.

From the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 90's until now, Chilean street art has literally exploded into a highly developed style, bearing strong influences from Mexican muralism, 60s — 70s political mural brigades, wildstyle graffiti and Brazilian graffiti and pixação (a unique stylistic cross-pollination with street art from Sao Paulo in the mid-90s).

With the 1990s, it became commonplace to state that LTG had been a mistake if not a joke designed to tease the public, or even an attempt to force humankind into a planet - wide dictatorship, as it had been claimed in some earlier appraisals (Golub and Townsend 1977; Larouche 1983).

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.

Unfortunately, neither Lord Mockton's incisive piece nor all the contrary evidence in the universe will ever get him to back off — it's his primary justification for his attack on civil liberties and his plan to turn the US into a socialist dictatorship..

«This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense,» the meme said alongside an image of Cuban - American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.

Presented on March 2, a new paper, titled «Egalitarian Society or Benevolent Dictatorship: The State of Cryptocurrency Governance» by University College London researchers, delved into the topic further by measuring how many developers are contributing to and commenting on cryptocurrency codebases.