Sentences with phrase «of a police state»

That millions of people have deliberately or by default preferred the ordered life of the police state to the hazardous blessings of liberty is striking evidence of the vacuum of meaninglessness into which modernity has plunged mankind.

Christians in Cuba worry that simply lifting the sanctions without any quid pro quo will economically strengthen Castro, providing him resources to pay the military enforcers of his police state.

Of course, attitudes can become self - fulfilling prophecies; nonetheless, one does not have to prove the frightening possibility of a police state by inductive logic alone.

However, the report «Pepper Spray and In - Custody Deaths» referred to by the International Association of Chiefs of Police stated: «In the majority of cases, oleoresin capsicum spray was either ineffective or less than totally effective.»

The PM's shameful response to the Calais crisis is a mixture of police state authoritarianism and emotional indifference

We shall find ourselves back in some form of government without the consent of the governed, some form of police state... the general idea of substituting partnership for exploiting employment... makes work something to live for as well as something to live by.

The Commissioner of Police stated that «Oladapo Dolapo was first to be arrested in connection with the murder of late Salawudeen Hakeem.»

That's my idea of a police state.»

The case was adjourned till March 20, 21 and 22, 2017 for commencement of trial, while the defendants were remanded at the headquarters of the Police State Criminal Investigation Department, in Akure.

One of the principal reasons why Labour lost the election was because the electorate wanted to see the end of the Police state it had created and the restoration of civil liberties in this country.

Indeed, what we have got here is yet another Government pandering to the tabloid press with more draconian laws and the consolidation of the Police state that Labour created.

The New Directors Competition Gold Hugo went to Peter Bergendy's «The Exam,» a thriller about the dangers of police state surveillance set in»50s Hungary.

Instead of the all - seeing eye of the police state or the artist, one felt instead Hearn's constant presence and everyday care for her work.

Culture Badges may «encourage communication,» but they sure sound like the instruments of a police state.

When asked why Howard Government would not impose limits on Australia's emissions, (you know, like the US does on SO2) he snapped: «We are not trying to run some kind of police state».12