Sentences with phrase «not dictatorial»

This is not a dictatorial agency, although some in the Competition Bureau have acted as though it is.

«Its nature would be supportive not adversarial; advisory not dictatorial; empowering not punitive.»

If that's not dictatorial, I don't know what is.

«When you throw a bill at us in 20 minutes, and we're told basically to shut up and vote, if that's not dictatorial, I don't know what is,» McLaughlin said.

This system is not manipulable, and it is not dictatorial, in the sense that the result does not depend only on voter 1's ballot.

Not exact matches

As a startup leader you're typically telling others what to do, not in a dictatorial - rule sort of way but because you have a clear vision of what success looks like in your head.

I think we are afraid that if we don't compromise, we will be viewed as a dictatorial leader.

And one that I personally wouldn't feel impunged by, but would be taken personally by many, is your last assertion that most fundamentalists are a) not Christian (by what definition is unclear) and b) either jerks or desiring «a society that revolves around a dictatorial, patriarchal system».

If God was dictatorial in his relationship with humans then these kinds of things wouldn't happen.

Comedy is not just for the stage but is a way of seeing the whole of life, one that subtly relegates his dictatorial parents to the realm of lovable absurdity.

Shut up and don't move because I am the overpowering dictatorial god.

Though the term arose when the nations were monarchies, and it had a more realistic symbolism then than now, it connotes power exercised, not in arbitrary dictatorial authority, but in loving concern.

Not least is that South Africa is trying to present a less dictatorial face to the outside world.

But by «totalitarianism» I do not mean the dictatorial rule of an all - powerful state; indeed, the state is but one of its mechanisms of enforcement and perhaps not even the most important.

The self - emptying God does not stand over against us closing off the historical future to us, but in abandoning such a dictatorial posture, comes over to our side and leaves the future open to indefinite surprise.

So insistent are the pressures that even peoples who are not yet prepared to assume the responsibilities of self - government claim their independence and then pay a heavy price in internal chaos and strife, with the likelihood of having to settle for order by dictatorial power rather than by consent.

These limits are morally binding not because they are tests of obedience to a dictatorial God or because they are encoded in our bodies, but because they convey truths about global flourishing.

Please stop being dictatorial and biased Admin we aren» nt high school kids for God's sake.

Wenger's thinking faculty is not accredited, he makes lopsided decisions and is colossaly rigid and dictatorial.

Having said this, in equal parts like Newton's 3rd law, the ultimate defensive aim of the team has to be dominating and securing the defensive transition after an initial failed press, defending our own half - spaces close to our box and ensuring we shift away from the «bend don't break» midfield we currently have, to a dictatorial and intelligent one.

The actual proof shows that the only exceptions are a dictatorial system (i.e., one voter decides who wins) and a system where some candidates can not win, even if everyone votes for them.

«Our coordinating partner: Intersociety had severally argued expertly and seminally that the emergence of dictatorship or tyranny and its sustenance under a civilian administration, is not the sole activity of a dictator or tyrant; but a hatched conspiratorial project involving other dictatorial or tyrannical elements.

CSBHROs in a statement, said: «It is no longer a subject of debate whether or not Nigeria of Buhari's civilian presidency is tyrannical - cum - dictatorial; as the country is fully back in dictatorship or chained democracy.

Here, I use the phrase eligible candidate to mean that the candidate is actually in the image of the voting system (if three candidates exist but you accept that one of them can not be elected in any situation, then you can consider the simple majority rule on the other two candidates, which is neither dictatorial nor manipulable).

Others said Heastie and Flanagan had not only failed to deliver on their promises to open the Legislature's notoriously secretive processes to greater public scrutiny but also abandoned their pledges to reduce the near - dictatorial powers that leaders have over individual legislators.

No, I am not about to argue that David Cameron should come over all dictatorial and close down ConservativeHome, although this might be the stuff of CCHQ dreams.

It is not the first time Mr Farage has faced claims from current and former party colleagues that he is too dictatorial.

Lundberg once published an anonymous letter whose author, a citizen of a dictatorial country, «was risking his life» by speaking out, but Lundberg also believes that risk of career damage, not just a death threat, can justify anonymity.

If you have dictatorial powers, as Snow does, and control over the media, as this government does, then how can you not besmirch a name?

As the DfE's direction since 2010 has been to move away from top - down prescription, calls for statutory limits on working time and enforced work - life balance policies not only run contrary to this strategy but the likelihood of such dictatorial tools making a significant difference is debatable at best.

Yes, back in 2008, I could not understand why Flash would ever be a thing of the past, and I hated this Steve Jobs character for being so rigid and dictatorial about not having Flash - compatible devices.

I know this girl is not a member of any political party, but she is timidly holding a sign that reads: DEATH TO FREEDOM, DEATH TO CAPTIVITY It is a strange slogan that I don't believe has ever been seen or heard under the rule of any dictatorial, Communist, populist, or even so - called liberal regime.

And as you say (I think I'm repeating myself), I just don't see that what RWA * might * do as any sort of dictatorial action.

They had inherited that dictatorial sense of top - down power that an obvious reality could not be contradicted.»

It doesn't work unless you update — very dictatorial.

Conceptual and abstract art made in several Latin American countries from the late»50s onwards dealt not only with questions of abstraction and constructivism but also with deeper cultural issues such as colonialism, repressive and dictatorial governments and social inequality.

In an open letter to the membership, Jack Gordon, a board official from 2012 to 2014, defended Mr. Barbieri's December re-election and wrote: «The league based on dictatorial rule and fear described by ASL 2025 is not the Art Students League that I know and experience, it is one of pure fabrication.»

«I wouldn't want a dictatorial regime of openness.

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I am sure you can make a living as a cartoonist with your misconceptions of how business works, but do not think we have to worry about Trump listening to those who have never been in a board room, never negotiated a business deal, and think that Business owners are Government dictatorial tyrants.

And let's not be so dictatorial about it, no greater worthy than James Lovelock, who invented the Gaia theory, has demanded that nuclear power form part of any response to climate change.

Will American energy independence not weaken the dictatorial regimes of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, because all their oil will be picked up immediately by China and India?

Lawyers might not behave as actual bullies; but they can be rather dictatorial.

While there is employment law in place in Vietnam, bosses here can be very dictatorial, and employees don't always know their rights.

In his recent commentary published by The Hill on February 16, Green wrote: «When the Republican - controlled Congress moves forward with drafting comprehensive tax reform legislation to put on President Donald Trump «s desk, one item ought to be high on the list of provisions but probably isn't yet — repealing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)... It's time for the Trump administration and the bicameral GOP leadership to honor the party's pledge to get rid of this senseless, invasive, dictatorial, and costly burden.»

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While I'm fairly parsimonious with which apps I let notify me on my phone, I've become downright dictatorial on the Watch, and that realization came from weeks of receiving messages about things I couldn't, and shouldn't, interact with from my wrist.

Dictatorship can not be permitted not because there couldn't (theoretically) be some wise and beneficent dictators who would be better and more efficient than the messy system of due process and checks and balances we idealize, but because under that dictatorial system we inevitably and primarily will suffer the fools, the tyrants, and the corrupt.

if we're not doing anything wrong or anti-competitive, an honest objective judge in an unbiased court of law should vindicate us and tell the competition bureau to take their dictatorial and tyrannical dog and pony show elsewhere.

Please do not include caring people like yourself, along with other civic minded volunteers like yourself, with the target of my missives, being the long - term bureaucrats who actually «do» run CREA, those mostly behind - the - scenes, very well paid, salaried folks like CEO's and their fawning in - house underlings who owe allegiance to their immediate bosses, and not you, along with the myriad of administrative types (which in their defense, some are actually needed within such dictatorial, undemocratic organizations).