Sentences with phrase «of a totalitarian state»

With amazing prescience, he foresees the rise of the totalitarian state that has dominated much of late - modern life, killing more people by violent means than in all of the previous ages combined.

This was our rude awakening to life under the control of totalitarian state government.

First, because Nazi ideologues saw organized religion as an enemy of the totalitarian state, propagandists sought to deemphasize - or eliminate altogether - the Christian aspects of the holiday.

Solzhenitsyn attempts to rewrite the Russian people's history from the point of view of those banished from it — the political prisoners and victims of the totalitarian state.

Even more difficult, on a world scale what forces can be built up to counterbalance the power of totalitarian states?

This is an example of a totalitarian state (Iran) using a religion to suit their own agenda.

Citizens of a totalitarian state are either victims or executioners and the movement by its ideology seeks to prepare them to fill either role (or both) equally well.

In the face of Nazi Fascist and Russian Communist threat in the form of a totalitarian state, they dared to discuss the relation of the Church to the State and to raise the problem of the relation of the Church to all the nations of the world.

Based on the classic novel by George Orwell, the story follows Winston Smith, a resident of totalitarian state Oceania who finds himself victim to the Thought Police when he starts to question how things are run.

Opening on a contract murder that plays like an American gangster picture dropped into dusty slums outside Tehran, the film takes a circuitous route to outline the workings of a totalitarian state that intimidates and terrorizes its intellectuals and dissident writers.

The new sci - fi film from filmmaker Drake Doremus (Like Crazy) stars Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart as two members of a totalitarian state where emotions have been eradicated, but somehow managed to fall in love regardless, which puts their lives in jeopardy.

In one infamous incident in 2009, Amazon actually yanked e-books from users» devices electronically after the publisher changed its mind about offering a digital version — and to make the issues raised by the incident even more stark, the books it removed were George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, both of which are about the capricious actions of totalitarian states.

«You are a newly employed department officer within the Ministry of a totalitarian State.

From what I have seen in this thread I can't think of any totalitarian state that your views would offend and rather doubt that your opponents in RC are out to get you in your personal life.

China's economy will slow and the regime will tighten controls again — the advantage of a totalitarian state.

«The Supreme Court of Canada has said that compelled speech is undemocratic and the hallmark of a totalitarian state,» says Groia.

It is the intricate system of security management so characteristic of totalitarian states.

With the rise of the totalitarian states has come the eclipse of democracy.