Sentences with phrase «jackboots of»

As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.

Dr Helen Evans, director of Nurses for Reform and a signatory to the letter in the Telegraph, said: «Away from all the government's blather concerning enterprise, freedom and personal responsibility, the illiberal jackboots of the do - gooders are again on the march.»

The people queue for a half hour for ice cream cones, and while St. Wenceslas, the city's patron, once promised to pop back if things ever got really sticky, neither religious atrocity nor foreign occupation, neither the jackboots of the Nazis nor the tanks of Moscow have been enough to summon his return.

«This is a community that has really felt the jackboot of the Iranian government,» says Leonard Leo, chairman of the commission.

There's a lot of spectacular imagination on show here, albeit thoughtfully framed in reasurringly familiar ways, as we appreciate further glimpses of life under the giant jackboot of the Galactic Empire.

And you've got a fresh perspective and a can - do attitude (in other words, you haven't yet been crushed under the jackboot of cynicism and apathy).

Not exact matches

But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Sadly, Tinubu, Ambode, Mohammed, Fashola, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the visiting President know that state visits caused hardship to the citizenry and brought Lagos to its knees since the days of the jackboot when innocent schoolchildren were lined up along routes where visiting military tin gods rode.

Trouble is most definitely a-brewing, and that's when the Sunday worship is interrupted by the sound of stomping jackboots.

With your nice shiny jackboots, you want to steal the word and limit the use we can make of it so you can feel as though you've achieved something valid.

A pair of jackboots away from being a wunderbar stormtrooper himself, my publicist.

And with their legendary desire to please, pit bulls are often the dog of choice for the depraved — dope dealers, thugs, and illegal dogfighters, with their horrific mistreatment and jackboot tactics, making a living abusing, torturing, starving, and trying to make vicious these magnificent and highly sensitive dogs.

With all people who choose a position of authority, there's this sinister - authoritarian energy — dressed in jackboots and tight trousers.

Just in case I missed the point, the sound of jackboots emanates from waste bins.

The tale takes place in the «Stalag» of Tweedy's Farm — minus the machine gun towers and jackboots — and comes with a feathery twist; and from a feminist perspective.