Sentences with phrase «living under the regimes»

Yet the great majority of people in the world live under regimes that are either constitutional theocracies — where religion is formally enshrined in the state — or where religious affiliation is a pillar of collective political identity.

Many of them have fled to Turkey and beyond but are still tethered — by both their self - appointed mission and those family members still stuck living under the regime — to their homeland.

Mostly, he's not purely good, but he's less corrupt than most of the rest of the men around him, and certainly a better option of living under the regimes of either monarch of the time, thrust into a position of heroism when those who seek destruction threaten what's acceptable for him and his warrior's credo.

At the time of the artist's birth — just under 50 years ago — his parents were not counted as Australian citizens, hence the defiant text - based installation «not an animal or a plant» in the ground floor gallery which showcases fine charcoal portraits on paper of members of his family who lived under that regime.

Don't forget, we live under a regime that considers employing people to reinforce and retrofit schools a wasteful drag on the economy, equivalent to shoveling cash into a furnace to burn, because such jobs are funded by taxation, not venture capitalists.

Sometimes, I consider more is better, therefore I commend to the audience that if absolutely necessary, we return to living under the regime of the Germanic pantheon.

Not exact matches

Under Kim Jong - Un's totalitarian regime, it's illegal for anyone who lives in the isolated nation to leave without the state's consent.

Under the economic benefit regime, the owner of the life insurance contract is treated as transferring economic benefits to the non-owner.

What enabled them not to hang onto the deeds of the evil regime under which they lived?

The intelligence services recognized the threat to Marxist regimes that John Paul represented because, as John Gaddis pointed out, he exposed «the disparities between what people believed and the systems under which the Cold War obliged them to live.»

, which carried conviction because this was a man who had lived and studied under one totalitarian regime, and then ministered as priest and Bishop under another.

Michnik grapples throughout with issues that were posed sharply by the realities of Polish life under a Soviet - imposed regime the vast majority had not chosen, one they could to a degree modify but not overthrow.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

Yet Christians also know that human beings live under a sovereign reality beyond the control, of any regime.

I'm an atheist but I wouldn't want to live under a communist regime any more than I would a fascist.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

Almost seven hundred thousand of the one million people in Albania are Muslims who now live under a strict Communist regime which has closed all madrasas and tekkes and forbidden the expression of their religion.

Iraq is a big land and has many bordering countries and a population of many Races, and many Religions and Faiths that were known or unknown beliefs... all of those lived in harmony during S - adam regime and every body was practicing his rights with out fear or with just a little fear But now having messed up the whole setup and the control of this mixed nation that were under a secular umbrella has cleverly for some ended it to be handed to Religious extremes at all sides of borders who are now fighting each other for taking control over the country or having it divided in to pieces.

What is needed is a change in perspective, one that places participation on a foundation that is truly distinct to Christianity, one that takes seriously the limitations of the individual voter and the decreasing political influence of Christianity, and one that affirms the Sovereign ordination of the democratic regime under which we live.

John Paul II well understood, both from his rootedness in biblically based teaching and from his experience of living under both the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian regimes, why both of these evil regimes were so threatened by the very presence of the Jewish people and the Catholic Church in the world.

Therefore it is useless to try to define or draw similarities between non-theists or atheists with these odd - ball dictators and certainly the people who had to live under them in non-democratic regimes.

Lincoln's political thought has moments of imaginative genius — his collected works are still the best initiation into a genuine understanding of the regime under which we live.

But, though you have lost many young men and suffered, you hardly know what the losing sides suffered under the totalitarian regimes they lived under and were forced to fight for.

That we must live under the ridiculous conceit that smutty videos and pictures constitute a species of artistic expression is a leading sign of the intellectual corruption of our regime.

Palestinians in the territories live under a constant regime of restrictions and harassments that make it difficult for them to build houses, attend school, travel or publish.

Under Walter Mazzarri, Watford were an uninspiring watch last season but now the regime of Marco Silva has given the Hornets a new lease of life.

Women living in the world's most advanced democracies and under the most progressive gender equality regimes still know less about politics than men.

He also labelled the current government as a «super-incompetent» regime under which Ghanaians, according to him, are experiencing a level of hard times worse than the living conditions the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had claimed existed when he was in charge as President between 2012 and 2016.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

People living under repressive regimes will soon be able to access the web using the internet connection of friends in censorship - free countries

Launched online in early 2007, Wikileaks is run by an informal group of open government and anti-secrecy advocates who want to allow people living under oppressive regimes, or with something to say in...

Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use.

«Our study is unique as it does not only compare dogs and wolves living under identical conditions, with a same history and training regime,» Bräuer adds, «We also compared dogs living in packs to pets living with their human families.»

My heart goes out to its citizens who live as virtual prisoners and slaves under the most oppressive regime in the world.

In the game, the robots live under a totalitarian secularist regime, where the belief that the machines were created by a mysterious being called Man is forbidden.

The «Persepolis» books recount her childhood first in pre-revolutionary Iran and then under the repressive fundamentalist regime; her teenage years as a student in Vienna, Austria, where her parents sent her after they began to fear their outspoken, free - spirited daughter might find herself in danger at home; her return to Iran in early adulthood; and, finally, her painful reckoning with the fact that it's possible to both love your homeland and find yourself utterly unable to live in it.

In this gory sci - fi outing, shot and originally released in 3 - D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime.

The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, are genuinely beautiful pieces of cinema: films that respectively use ghosts and monsters to explore the physical and psychological impact of living under a repressive regimes (both are set during the Spanish Civil War).

The Breadwinner is the story of Parvana, a young girl living under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy and become the breadwinner of the family when her father is unfairly imprisoned for being an intellectual.

Director Angelina Jolie shows life in Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime in the new trailer for Netflix's First They Killed My Father.

We've seen hundreds of films about the Second World War, usually focussing on those on the front line, or the millions of minorities who lost their lives under the Nazi regime, yet films focussing on the ordinary German civilians seem to be few and far between.

Starting with the Arab Spring and fight against Syria's Assad regime, through the brutal takeover by the Islamic State, a group of citizen journalists has been documenting life inside Raqqa under deadly circumstances.

As a public elementary special education teacher in New York City, the last eight years (but really since No Child Left Behind in 2001) of test based accountability have been much like living under a gotcha regime.

Many of them know what it means to be a victim or live under an oppressive regime where they have no voice.

In writing the book, Ellen's hope was to put a face on the countless destitute German women and children who lived and died under Hitler's regime, most often as victims of their government's actions.

I wondered if they would form a political party to overthrow the oppressive regime Hannah lived under.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, with its intriguing and evocative title, was an international bestseller that fed Western readers» appetite for learning about life under a fundamentalist regime.

In the Classroom: Share A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada and Mother Earth / Hablando con madre tierra, and then pair those titles with Antonio Skármeta's book The Composition (2003), a fictional account of a community living under a repressive regime that asks its children to spy on their parents.

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