Sentences with phrase «on dictatorial»

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.»

The engrossing tale hinges on the dictatorial powers of the Captain Nemat, who acts as salesman, matchmaker and power of attorney for the trusting residents of the slowly - sinking ship.

Not exact matches

If I believe God was so dictatorial then I would believe that there would be no use for God to go with reliance on faith.

It is childish to suppose that today's conditions are unprecedented, to say, «There are dangerous communists about, we must be on guard against them,» or, «This government is basely imperialistic and dictatorial, we must overthrow it.»

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.

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.

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.

As usual it grew apocalyptic and confident, even dictatorial, as it went on.

Ivan replacing Wengers dictatorial power on many levels.

The theory was that such a president would have no self - interest and let people get on with their lives without unnecessary interference by a narcissistic or dictatorial leader»

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responseOn why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responseon account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

As the controversial president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh takes his dictatorial rule against the media in the country, ECOWAS has on Monday condemned the closure of another Radio station.

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).

On June 23 of 2013, protesters came out and asked to resign immediately; the protesters argued that he was becoming «dictatorial».

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.

As noticed by Satterthwaite, the original theorem immediately implies that, on the subset of configurations where all voters have strict preferences, the system is dictatorial (given the usual assumptions, i.e. non-manipulability and at least 3 eligible candidates).

Its about an increasingly dictatorial govt clampinmg down on freedom of inquiry into the govt's policies.

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.

«What we say is that to insist in legislation that on every occasion.the only method of consultation must be a ballot is too dictatorial and unneccessarily prescriptive,» he said.

They tacked on the additional phrase because George Mason worried that «treason or bribery» was insufficient for removing a president who began to display dictatorial tendencies.

However, in the dictatorial hands of President Olusegun Obasanjo, the party was purged of its original ideals and even many founding members found themselves on the wrong side of a «re-registration» process.

Bukola Ajisola, Victoria Island, Lagos State, [email protected]: The National Assembly comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, constitutionally empowered to make laws and perform oversight functions, is gradually morphing into a dictatorial Frankenstein where members are gagged on rhetorical and omnibus House Rules.

«Today, despite our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association and speech, Nigerians now live in fear of this intolerant, overbearing, bigoted and dictatorial administration seeking to foist a fascist regime on our country.

And the dictatorial way he imposed the SAFE Act backfired and arguably had a chilling effect on national gun control efforts at the time that subsequently went nowhere.

Victor Papanek's latest book on design and the environment The Green Imperative (Thames and Hudson, # 14.95 pbk, ISBN 0 500 27846 6) manages to avoid the dictatorial style of many writers on design.

However, by humanizing psychopathic behavior, The Act of Killing is unparalleled in its unsettling perspective on the dementias associated with dictatorial extremes.

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.

Iannucci and Soviet Russia: on paper, it's a match made in heaven — both an opportunity to capitalise on anti-Russia sentiment and a chance to jab one of history's most notorious autocrats in the ribs at a time when dictatorial, power - drunk figures are actually in power.

But, along the way, on his road to near - dictatorial power, Stark begins cutting deals, bullying his enemies, and turning his state into a piggy - bank for himself and his cronies.

Just as important, they add character and personality to a film built on a saintly young hero and an impassive dictatorial antagonist.

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.

If Bloomberg is reelected, his model of reform through dictatorial mayoral control will surely be urged on other troubled urban school districts.

He falls in love with Princess Garnet who is on the run from her oppressive and dictatorial queen mother.

Advance Wars 2 is the sequel and follows the four helpfully colour - coded nations of the first game in doing battle with the villainous Black Hole, a dictatorial empire intent on taking over the world.

This show put special emphasis on how much Oiticica's work was rooted in different continents — influenced by European constructivism, while reacting to the oppression of Brazilian dictatorial regime and the experience of the New York counterculture.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

.@EPAScottPruitt has heroically transformed the @EPA from a lawless, dictatorial agent of green activists to a Constitution - following agency focused on true threats to human health.

New EPA boss promises dictatorial action on global warming While speaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Gina McCarthy, the new head of the EPA, said Wednesday the administration is finished waiting on Congress and is set to...

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.»

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.

I hear Justin Trudeau really admires the dictatorial Chinese government model for its ability to act quickly and decisively on issues that «it» deems to be in its «citizens»» best interests... using filched taxpayers» dollars as its own.

Just prior to Melanie Aitken's August 2009 appointment to the federal Competition Bureau's top job (Commissioner), the government implemented sweeping legal powers, dictatorial and unconstitutional in nature, in my opinion, that enabled Ms Aitken to impose «Administrative Monetary Penalties» (AMPs) on businesses that she alone determined to be in violation of the Competition Act.

«The main task,» he said, «is to replace the dictatorial regime in Kazakhstan and build a country on the model of America and Europe.»

I strongly oppose such dictatorial requirement and as such will make no further postings on this forum (or any other forum for that matter), if my democratic rights to anonymity are infringed upon.