Sentences with phrase «oligarchy of»

However, the folks who don't like what you, the aforementioned and I say seem to simply be venting from the perspective of conditioned thinking, assuming that we are their particular enemies, when in fact we are trying to engage the slumbering areas of their brains into actually waking up to the reality of how the bureaucrats are insidiously creating an entrenched Oligarchy of «We know what is best for you all» controllers who have very little respect for their dues payers.

If it were a genuinely common cause, it would be reflected in demands from below, not by a self - appointed Oligarchy of environmental NGOs.

Maybe «Minions of Exxon's Oligarchy of the World» or MEOW?

Oligarchy of bankers block reform.

An oligarchy of five justices setting policy for the entire USA is not the government the Constitution guarantees, and it's not the one we want.

The education reform oligarchy of the 80's had a school choice conversation — at least one that is a matter of record.

«Parent involvement» to the oligarchy of educators means have a couple of large meetings with marshmallow powerpoints and check off that box — just patronize the parents.

Whenever these feuds take centrestage, the impetus is invariably traceable to the divide - and - rule imperative, which inevitably profits the oligarchy of northern Nigeria.

Terrible day for those of us who love a country of the people, by the people and for the people and fear the approaching time when the country will be run by an oligarchy of business owners and wealthy people.

The Slave Dynasty was an oligarchy of Turks which jealously kept the doors shut against the non-Turks.

Why should such a male oligarchy of the unholiest religious depraving others financially insecure ever be considered holy and these RCC unholies are but self - loathing ambassadorial concubines of anti-Christian ethics when plainly such men of the RCC will never break the breaded filthy monetary ways when they clearly are spiritual hoodlums in clothed garnishments of devilish unrighteousness...?

Will we have to choose between an oligarchy of «RPR vendors» — Google, Facebook, Microsoft — or will we take a more distributed approach, as the original Internet did?

Not exact matches

you can also fill the airwaves of all these surrounding nations with disruptive ideas / propaganda like freedom of the press, individual liberty, economic opportunity, etc. — dangerous ideas to the surrounding kleptocracies / oligarchies.

But Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, has done his best to comb through disclosure reports and, by combining that information with qualitative judgments about softer forms of power, come up with a ranking of our new oligarchy.

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

«It's like something out of a tin - pot oligarchy.»

You also need a contingency plan for when the European Union wrecks the Greek banks, which basically have been the tool of the oligarchy in Greece.

Domestic assets are transferred into foreign hands — including those of domestic oligarchies operating out of their offshore dollar or Swiss - franc accounts.

And is it too much to say that we are seeing the end of economic democracy and the emergence of a financial oligarchy — a self - serving class whose actions threaten to...

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

Chilean stocks rose because labor's savings were being channeled into a rather small number of stocks in the large companies controlled by the oligarchy.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

The only debts that Emperor Hadrian annulled were Rome's tax records, which he burned in 119 AD — tax debts owed to the palace, not debts to the creditor oligarchy that had gained control of Rome's land.

Conservatives resist with impartial strength the uniformity of a tyrant or an oligarchy, and the uniformity of what Tocqueville called «democratic despotism.»

They're a bunch of uncaring phonies, working to maintain the corporate oligarchy and the status quo among the wealthiest.

the small group... its oligarchy... they overturned the VOTE of the MAJORITY... such as in California..

In effect, this group formed an oligarchy — a gridlock of elites who wielded their clout throughout the region.

Murphy's reply provides perceptive criticism of the limitations of originalism but fails to set forth any other method of interpretation that would prevent judicial oligarchy.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

But he was also a man of integrity, and as his eyes were gradually opened to what was going on around him — particularly the exploitation and repression of the poor at the hands of the oligarchy, the government and the military — he could no longer keep silent.

Bisected by religious and political conflict in the 16th century, the Low Countries were divided into the Southern Netherlands, an appendage of Catholic Spain with Flanders at its heart, and the United Provinces or Dutch Republic, a newly minted, Protestant, entrepreneurial oligarchy whose growing pains sometimes seem uncannily predictive of our own.

But, given the unsustainability of pure democracy, it's not surprising that by the Eighties we had the bourgeois bohemian mixture of oligarchy and democracy, with bourgeois trumping bohemian at every turn.

We still have not learned the lesson of Vietnam; democratic governments are not necessarily more moral than oligarchies or totalitarian governments; they are capable of cruel self - deception.

Imagine if people like Michelle Bachman, Kent Hovind, or Pat Robertson had their way, and there was no such thing as separation of church from state to hold them back from brainwashing our children, persecuting non-believers like they did in medieval times, and turning our country into a Christian oligarchy.

This revolution, he contends, is inconsistent with the founders» intentions, violates the trust of the American people, and effectively substitutes «a judicial oligarchy for the Republic established by the Constitution.»

There have been and there are today relatively benign forms of monarchy or oligarchy, also in Islamic countries.

75 % of the people no longer believe in the Establishment of the Church as they are a means for the top 1 % Aristocratic Oligarchy to maintain their power over the 99 % working masses.

God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.

Do you have some examples from your life where you see yourself as part of the arrogant oligarchy?

Smith asked, «Is there no need for true evangelism among the white Christians of South Africa who supported apartheid; among the white Christians in Latin America who maintain corrupt oligarchies; among the Christians who support the neo-Nazi movement in Germany»?

If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in other faith traditions.

The recognized forms of government are few in number and have been much the same ever since the Greeks analyzed and classified them to include monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic, and despotism.

While I do not retract a word of my criticism of the judiciary's usurpation of democratic powers («Our Judicial Oligarchy,» November 1996), I wish that my remarks had not been preceded by the Editors» suggestion that we may «have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime.»

We have that one piece of paper to protect us from becoming an oligarchy led by the rich and powerful.

Jonathan Marshall of the Oakland Tribune concluded that «President Endara's appointments read like a who's who of Panama's oligarchy.

The traditional gods of oligarchy and empire have, in the words of Walter Brueggemann, a «royal consciousness [which] leads to numbness, especially to numbness about death.

Here too the «iron law of oligarchy» has been brilliantly in evidence, much to the bewilderment of the bishops.

are you really going to pretend that the opulent lifestyle of the religious oligarchy over the past millennia was not supported by the «donations» of the faithful?

Sarah calls for Africa and Asia to protect their cultures and governments from the political, financial, and moral future proposed by the West: «Mankind would lose much if these continents were to fall into the huge, formless magma of globalization, which is directed toward an inhumane ideal that is in fact hideous, barbaric oligarchy.»

This, he later asserted, would have the effect of «placing us under the despotism of an oligarchy.»