Sentences with phrase «living in a dictatorship»

they both warned, as if we were living in a dictatorship.

For instance, having your character living in a dictatorship in a virtual world might be fun from a role - playing standpoint, as would be ruthlessly slaughtering NPC innocents.

Not exact matches

The election that never should have happened is in the books and the result proved that personal arrogance masquerading as public policy is a poison unless you live in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

There are a good % of the world's population living under dictatorships and another big % that are in actual modern day slavery.

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.

In Nicaragua the people had begun living a different future when they made the decision to participate actively in the movement to overthrow the U.S - backed Somoza dictatorshiIn Nicaragua the people had begun living a different future when they made the decision to participate actively in the movement to overthrow the U.S - backed Somoza dictatorshiin the movement to overthrow the U.S - backed Somoza dictatorship.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

I did not think it right to support the National Liberation Front, because its victory would necessarily result in the impoverishment of the French colons, in a dictatorship, and in far - reaching retrogression in every department of Algerian life.

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

funny how in europe with a thriving democracy that most of us believe in strongmen with dictatorship tendencies to rule our club for life with a stupid notion that there is no replacement.change in any society and in any democracy is needed to bring in new blood and ideas.SHAME ON US FOR EMBRASSING A DICTATOR AND A SRONGMAN!!!

However, where Italy's strengths lie are in the warmth of their blood, the venom they possess to live in the moment — to create the unpredictable and the magic through Pirlo's dictatorship, Marchisio's impressive forward surging runs and through Cassano and Balotelli.

The wider point I was making was that electoral democracy is only the first step on the pathway to civilisation, and a society in which it was universally applied would be hellish — the dictatorship of the majority over every aspect of life.

«I've lived in a country that was democratically elected and went basically to a dictatorship,» he told the Voice.

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

If that's true and if it holds in the future — if people continue to defend other people's eccentricities because a) they think it's cool to live in a world of harmless eccentrics and b) for the sake of their own protection — then you would likely see a 51 percent or 60 percent or 70 percent dictatorship by a majority that insists on crushing intolerance.

If the ambition is broader, and this in fact a science - fiction - laced exploration of life under some kind of miscellaneous totalitarian dictatorship and the homogenisation of mankind, then you'd be forced to concede that the film fails to ignite that particular political powder - keg.

Less antiseptic than the very broad good vs. evil, dark vs. light fantasy - based conflicts of the series, the world of Rogue One is far more complicated, showing us a more realized version of a universe under the thumb of an evil dictatorship and the moral compromises soldiers living and fighting in a war zones might have to make.

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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

During the 1970s, he formed an avant - garde group called infrarealism with other writers and poets in Mexico where he lived after leaving Chile when it fell under military dictatorship.

Gabriel García Márquez numbered as one of his many fans, but it is assumed that Conti's life was cut short when he was «disappeared» by the Argentine dictatorship in 1976.

This exhibition is centered around her 2012 travels to Burma with a close look at Burmese daily life, the historical issues in Myanmar and the improvement that came after military dictatorship ended in 2011 when Aung San Suu Kyi took over as Prime Minister.

For Oiticica, leisure — sheer fun — was an ethical imperative, a joyful protest against the oppressive realities of life in his home country, which had been under military dictatorship since 1964.

While Zurita recites two poems — one from before the dictatorship, one from after — a live - stream projection will depict a performer tracing Lehyt's drawings onto a gallery wall in the Carpenter Center.

His work has been included in group exhibitions such as Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013); The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2012); 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2008); 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia (2008); 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, Panama (2008); Freedom, Hague Sculpture Center, the Netherlands (2008); Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2007); 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2004); and the Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2003).

The 120 artists included in this show made moving, incisive, funny, and daring work; often, they protested the various South American dictatorships and sexist climates under which they lived.

I leave it to you to conclude whether these sculptures are jolly celebrations of life in China — with a touch of Beryl Cook — or inadvertent embodiments of the banality of dictatorship.

Expect masterpieces by Giacomo Balla, Giorgio de Chirico, Fortunato Depero, Arturo Martini, Fausto Melotti, Giorgio Morandi, Scipione, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi and Adolfo Wildt, but also claustrophobia and angst documenting life in a time of war and under dictatorship.

I do not live in China, never have, never have even set foot in China, and never will as long as the communists rule that country like a USSR - style dictatorship (despite the fashionable Shanghai shop window displays and the excellent movies from Chinese directors there... but I do live in TAIWAN, an island nation 100 miles off the coast of communist China, ahd I have been studying the Chicoms (as they are called — Chinese communists) for more than 10 years and reading their English propaganda newspapers online, like the People's Daily (go look) and this is important for Americans to hear:

The legislation will end our freedom and our way of life, and turn our democracies in «eco socialist» dictatorships with unlimited powers.

I do not want to live in such a dictatorship town.

(as seen in «The Leap Statement»), taken to an extreme of intolerance and bullying behavior very similar to what I saw living in a communist 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.

They impose dictatorship rule and limit or ban some of the enjoyable things in their children's life.

More to the point, why do you have the right to tell consumers what they need - we live in Canada not some communist dictatorship where people are told what is good for them.