Sentences with phrase «of dictatorial»

This kind of dictatorial or authoritarian parenting can often result in children complying out of fear for the consequences which will be meted out.

And North Korea flowered following a surprisingly benevolent relinquishment of dictatorial power.

The objects and bodies of the Tobias tableaux are often drawn from archetypal folk figures of their Transylvanian heritage, including the notable character Vlad the Impaler, as well as Romanian political lineages of dictatorial urbanization and Socialist architecture.

1 An American art world that tolerates the type of dictatorial, cultural elitism that infects this institution and others gets what it deserves.

There was an article going around a few months ago about how screwed up it is (mostly because of the dictatorial Denis Dyack).

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.

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.

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.

Katniss Everdeen, whose defiance of the dictatorial President Snow has ignited the masses across all the impoverished districts, has become the symbol of the rebellion.

The show started out hot this season, immediately picking up with Neil Gamby's hunt for his shooter, and giving us a hint of the dictatorial stylings of Lee Russell as Principal, which made the meandering nature of «The King» all the more disappointing.

The film, from first time director Crystal Moselle, records scenes in the life of the Angulo family, a life confined — under the demands of a dictatorial father — to a small New York apartment.

There are obvious links between Raúl's actions and those of the dictatorial regime in place at that time in Chile; but this is woven subtly into the plot rather than stitched on for effect.

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.

«However, more worrisome is the fact that institutions of government, especially security and corrective agencies have now fallen victims of dictatorial abuses.

In spite of the dictatorial antics of most African leaders, former President Goodluck Jonathan made sure that he oversaw the growth of opposition parties in Nigeria.

«I think that some of that increase in support for independence is a reaction against the sort of dictatorial line we've been getting from some of the pronouncements from Downing Street,» Mr Salmond said.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

A number of dictatorial countries» including some that Freedom House has ranked among the worst violators of human rights» flatly asserted that individual rights must remain subservient to those of the state, a stipulation that, if accepted, would effectively strip the individual citizen of his rights.

Elimination of the French, of course; but also an economic recession, the establishment of a dictatorial state, a false and altogether regressive socialism, and the condemnation of all who had participated in the violent struggle, because they proved completely unfitted for conducting a rational government.

A team of a dictatorial doge & an overzealous pope decided celebacy was the only option for a priest in order to «truly serve God» (& be obedient to his «betters», i.e doge & pope)!

Not exact matches

Amid a perfect storm of investor - owned units, powerful condo boards and tenants who have limited powers to fight back, a democratic living ideal is rapidly turning into a dictatorial nightmare for condo - dwellers.

Golden's story illustrates the fascinating duality of Rand: While dictatorial in his solutions, he was willing to change if the job required him to solve a different problem for the client.

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.

Paternalistic: Paternalistic management is also very dictatorial, but includes the best interests of the employees as well as the business itself.

During his dictatorial reign tens of thousands of opponents of his regime were tortured.

In comparing dictatorial Sudanese President Omar Hassan al - Bashir to Omar Khadr, because both were arguably once child soldiers, the Toronto Sun «s Peter Worthington attains stratospheric levels of incoherence.

He saw the demoralizing implications of the concordat between the Hitler - led German government and the Vatican that was signed in 1933 as Hitler was consolidating dictatorial powers.

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

Or, conversely, they may require a faith which is, by any reasonable external standard, an oppressive, dictatorial, dogmatic nightmare because of their need for external guidance, direction and control.

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.

The dictatorial source and direction of state power had many sources in both Germany and the Soviet Union, and some of those sources doubtless derive from imperialism.

At a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida, Gingrich continued by calling the decision «a direct violation of freedom and religion - an example of the increasingly dictatorial attitude of this administration.»

Bartlett imagines a Prince of Wales who has been unwittingly training himself for dictatorial self - assertion.

In Vienna, delegates from dictatorial countries proposed to rectify the «deplorable gap» between rich and poor countries by massive transfers of wealth, without conditions, of course, on the recipients.

But that has the consequence of meaning that oppressive, dictatorial governments are never doing anything wrong so long as they stay in power.

It's a cruel, cold, and dictatorial world that stands behind the seemingly liberating views of Kristine Gebbie and her patrons in the White House.

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

On the whole, they have been much more comfortable with the dictatorial image of God, an image that legitimates and preserves the status quo with all the built - in exclusivity that this implies.

Much contemporary theology has been attempting to undo the assimilation of the idea of God into that of a controlling and dictatorial power.

Encyclopedia articles about Calvin feature a fairly predictable cluster of terms still associated with his name: strict, moralistic, legalistic, authoritarian, rigorous, rigid, severe, cold, logical, systematic, biblicist, theocratic, dictatorial and austere.

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.

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.

The Reichskonkordat was a treaty signed on 20 July 1933 between the Holy See (Catholic Church) and Nazi Germany, guaranteeing the rights of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, giving moral legitimacy to the Nazi regime soon after Hitler had acquired dictatorial powers, and placing constraints on Catholic critics of the regime, leading to a muted response by the Church to Nazi policies.

It is because we are unconvinced of the power of persuasive love that we want to invest God with dictatorial coercive power.

The many new revelations about Chile's dictatorial era came as Pinochet's personal image as an austere and incorruptible man disintegrated in the face of a U.S. Senate port affirming that he had accumulated millions of dollars in hidden wealth.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

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.

While cultivating freedom at home, during most of the 20th century the U.S. tolerated, assisted and instigated dictatorial regimes in Latin America and elsewhere.

Condor accounted for only a tiny percentage of the atrocities committed in dictatorial Latin America, but it represented «the final, worst departure from the rules of law and civilized society.

He held a high sacramental view of the Church, which in practice often meant simply a dictatorial view.