Sentences with phrase «n't feudal»

Hercolani: This isn't feudal Japan.

The Prodigal has sinned against his father, and the father — not a feudal lord but an honest - to - goodness father — sees the returning son, penitent and ashamed, coming home from the far country.

Not exact matches

Chrystia Freeland and Rex Tillerson should remember one point when they meet in Vancouver soon to discuss North Korea: Kim Jong - un runs a feudal gangland, not a nation state.

Neoliberal evangelists of this revival of feudal privilege argued that economies don't need a government — unless, of course, the financial sector controls it, as landlords did in feudal Europe.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

It changed the class structure of society from its earlier feudal form, but it did not eliminate that structure.

We know quite well that we are not listening here to the voice of God.10 We are listening to the voice of the dominant class in a feudal Society.11 The Catholic ethic is a frozen ethic.

5 Islamic societies were certainly not so hierarchical as feudal Europe but, just as the laws of Christendom were shaped by the Christian faith, so Shari'a law is based on the teachings of the Qur» an.

Thus, in describing the history of Christianity, Mathews dealt not with the question of the metaphysical truth of various doctrines, but rather with the issue of the function of doctrine through a succession of dominant «social minds,» which he designated as the Semitic monarchical, the Hellenistic monarchical, the imperialistic, the feudal, the national, the bourgeois, and the scientific - democratic.

It wasn't until the Feudal system (i.e. Lords having control over the serfs) that Europe got on its feet and started really having a stable economy.

This may be fine for Protestants who believe that Catholicism simply perpetuates feudal ideas and superstitious belief, but it is not a very helpful point of view when trying to understand the French with sympathy.

Digressions into the nature and history of communism / feudal societies / anarchistic utopias are off topic and won't be posted.

I'm not an expert and my PhD is in AI, but I am pretty sure nowadays we have much more time for our kids then our grandparents and great grandparents did (just take into account multi-child families, feudal obligations...).

The truth is that places for Bishops are an anachronistic feudal hangover, the retention of which is supported not by democratic will or principles of public accountability but by opaque vested interests.»

There are not enough jobs, and many of those that do exist, being junior level jobs in the feudal system, are not satisfying to young researchers who have tasted the freedom of creativity.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

While Troy's combat won't feel particularly foreign to fans of the Warriors franchise, its setting and narrative offer a refreshing departure from the Three Kingdoms and Feudal Japan focus of previous games.

Tsugumo (Ebizo Ichikawa) this time around is clearly the avenging angel from the beginning — there is an expectation attached to this filmmaker and enough of a familiarity with the original (one presupposes) that the only point of a remake would be to not attack the hypocrisy of the feudal structure, but to challenge those expectations.

For those not in know about Afro Samurai, it was originally a manga that then got adapted into a cartoon, and features an assassin literally named Afro living in a sort - of future yet feudal Japan.

basically it's a hack n slash game, you are some kind of general in feudal japan or china (most of cases) and you have to defeat single - hand a whole lot of weakling characters, using some ridiculously OP moves

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Closed Beta # 5 offers players a chance to not only explore the game, but experience an immersive medieval world unlike any other — one free of high - fantasy, and focused on players working together to create functional feudal societies.

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Those who have loved the series for a while will resonate with the combat and wide selection of characters from feudal history, but others may not find as much to like in this latest installment.

The Total War series most recently re-occupied feudal Japan with 2010's Total War: Shogun 2 and its 2012 expansion «Fall of the Samurai» (not to mention the iOS Total War Battles: Shogun spin - off this past April).

Life is Feudal isn't a zombie or post-apocalyptic game, like those mentioned, but focuses on the crafting, weapons, and other elements of life almost a millennia ago.

I'm not sure English dubbing would have helped, here, because it would likely take away from the intention of the developers to recreate feudal Japan, and as such it is understandable.

The heroes from Ancıent Chına and Feudal J ∂ p ∂ n include Yoshimoto Imagawa, Goemon Ishikawa, Lu Bu, Noьunaga Oda, and other legends.

«Who doesn't want to go to feudal Japan?

And if that weren't enough, the beautiful and dark imagining of feudal Japan and Japanese folklore are worth the ticket of entry alone.

Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.

«we are sore - eyed scopophiliac oxymorons... disenfranchised aristocrats, under siege from our feudal heritage... our bread is buttered on both sides...» this was stencilled on the gallery wall as the artists introduction to the world over twenty years ago — fledglings from the nest of Gilbert & George, having once been their art technicians — yet arriving -LSB-...]

Like the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan, or the tyrants of feudal Europe, they do not recognise that they are accountable to anyone.

Riots, strikes, and protests in feudal times did not succeed, because lacking a material force means being political impotent.

This is not unlike feudal lords, gathering themselves into an organisation intended — at face value — to represent the interests of serfs.

The connection is that most (although not all) titles on nobility were personal rights incident to being the feudal owner of a parcel of land (the right to say who inherits land from an individual was originally entirely governed by law without the discretion of the owner to give it to someone else, but this was reformed gradually in the «early modern» period of English history and was fully reformed by the Victorian era except as to the titles of nobility historically associated with the land).

Is it, moreover, prepared to rely on arguments that because the monarch of a feudal society approves or knows about a payment there may not be a bribe at law?

«Why do law firms find it so hard to understand that a feudal warlord system forcing everyone to work harder is not the height of mankind's achievement in civilization?