Sentences with phrase «oppressive regime in»

In contrast to the formalist Western perspective and rejection of the mainstream academic art of that time, Dansaekhwa was a reaction against the oppressive regime in South Korea.

León Ferrari illustrates the global nature of the exhibition with his La Jaula (The Cage)(1979), which he created while in exile from an oppressive regime in his native Argentina.

You bravely opposed the oppressive regime in Kenya.

This move was criticised by a number of human rights organisations due to the fact that there is an oppressive regime in Rwanda with a high record of human rights abuses.

My heart goes out to its citizens who live as virtual prisoners and slaves under the most oppressive regime in the world.

The Profit's Marcus Lemonis travels to Cuba at a time of historic change, and profiles a new breed of business owners determined to succeed under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.

Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations.

We realized, more deeply than ever before, in learning about the history of colonialism and subsequent oppressive regimes in Kenya, that the mechanism of oppression, whether it is on a global, community, or familial level, is utterly destructive of peoples» dignity and their connection to themselves and to their environment.

In one group of works, she unflinchingly probes the torments resulting from oppressive regimes in Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and South Africa.

Not exact matches

«When you have freedom of speech and freedom of expression and don't get thrown in jail by criticizing a bad idea, it's more likely bad ideas will get exposed, and it's not a coincidence oppressive regimes are also oppressive in clamping down on free speech.»

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

I would not be surprised in the least if it turned out that there were plenty of compassionate atheists who also help people to escape China or other such oppressive regimes.

Much of the enthusiasm in such movements seems to me an unintentional contribution to accelerating the spread of oppressive regimes.

Millions of Christians have been in the same place for 2,000 years all over the world... not just in oppressive regimes, but in Christian cultures as well.

Massively fewer wars and oppressive regimes and torture, and they are much much better at living in harmony with other beliefs.

To be sure, this oppressive regime does not obtain in all seminaries, but the evidence suggests that it is widespread, and was even more common ten and twenty years ago, thus lending support to the claim that the crisis in priestly vocations is, in large part, «artificial and contrived.»

The Nobel Prize - winning poet Czesław Miłosz, who suffered under both the Nazi and Soviet regimes, argued that it was not religion that was the root cause of these oppressive totalitarian regimes — it was that the Nazis and Communists denied that they were accountable in the sight of God.

Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

The desire to leave somewhere else is insufficient in as much as a myriad of other nations will take refugees from oppressive regimes the world over.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

Yes, democracy is the norm in many African countries but it seems as if our definition of democracy is skewed in favour of life presidents and oppressive regimes.

Britain is set to reintroduce «internal exile», a hallmark of the world's most oppressive regimes, in the wake of the increased security threat from terrorism — despite parliamentarians» deep discomfort about the move.

And as a political solution is sought to the Syrian crisis, it is unclear whether any so - called power sharing regime will oppose a similarly oppressive trajectory in the aftermath of the war.

In Eritrea, an oppressive military regime and a lifeless economy force several thousand to walk across its land borders every month.

This is the same reason why companies as big as Google compromise their ideals just to appease oppressive regimes like China's or comply with demands that directly breach end user's privacy like the NSA's Prism program in the US.

1998 Joel L. Lebowitz, for his tireless devotion to the rights of scientists in oppressive regimes throughout the world and his extraordinary creativity in finding ways to help these scientists survive their ordeals.

THE internet's underlying technology can be harnessed to let people exchange secret messages, perhaps allowing free speech an outlet in oppressive regimes.

Launched online in early 2007, Wikileaks is run by an informal group of open government and anti-secrecy advocates who want to allow people living under oppressive regimes, or with something to say in...

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime.

Their findings from missions like this, disseminated in the news media and at conferences, illuminate oppressive regimes and can influence national policies.

You quickly find yourself caught up in a rebellion to overthrow the oppressive regime of Pagan Min, a figure known as much for his sense of style and charisma as for his cruelty and naked brutality.

The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people of Panem in terms of whether they want to stay with the oppressive regime led by the Capitol and President Snow (Sutherland, Horrible Bosses), or whether they're going to join the revolution and fight for a new way of life.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Persepolis (PG - 13 for sexual references, profanity, mature themes, violent images and brief drug use) Feminist animated adventure, set at the dawn of the Iranian revolution in the late seventies, chronicles the resistance to the oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime displayed by a defiant young girl (Chiara Mastroianni) followed from the age of 9 to 2In Spanish with subtitles) Persepolis (PG - 13 for sexual references, profanity, mature themes, violent images and brief drug use) Feminist animated adventure, set at the dawn of the Iranian revolution in the late seventies, chronicles the resistance to the oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime displayed by a defiant young girl (Chiara Mastroianni) followed from the age of 9 to 2in the late seventies, chronicles the resistance to the oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime displayed by a defiant young girl (Chiara Mastroianni) followed from the age of 9 to 24.

One parallel story in «Race» involves the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision whether or not to boycott the ’36 Games because of the oppressive anti-Jewish and anti-Black policies of Hitler regime.

The simplicity of the visuals helps universalize the story, which is filled with plenty of the usual travails of growing up (troubles with boys, clandestine parties, etc.), though always viewed in pointedly thumb - nosing contrast with the oppressive regime that wants to keep the populace — especially its women — in check.

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

On the narrative surface the game satirically implements the Big Nurse's oppressive and unyielding regime but, in terms of functional gameplay, the prescription system is one way that players enjoy the freedom to choose their own learning paths.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

In 1952, Barcelona trembles beneath the oppressive, tyrannical regime of Franco's fascist party.

Under an oppressive Communist regime he became a singer, storyteller, and poet in the ancient Tuvan tradition.

In a powerfully drawn anatomy of tyranny and tyrannicide, the great Peruvian master re-envisions the Dominican Republic in 1961, at the time of the assassination of strongman Rafael («the Goat») Trujillo, whose death brought down his 30 - year oppressive regimIn a powerfully drawn anatomy of tyranny and tyrannicide, the great Peruvian master re-envisions the Dominican Republic in 1961, at the time of the assassination of strongman Rafael («the Goat») Trujillo, whose death brought down his 30 - year oppressive regimin 1961, at the time of the assassination of strongman Rafael («the Goat») Trujillo, whose death brought down his 30 - year oppressive regime.

The Bedouin Rezhan ended the oppressive regime Zaityra languished under, but he had larger plans at work, and launched a full attack against the neighboring land of Ronan in an effort to bring it under his control as well.

Set in a world where an oppressive government regime has outlawed clothing, it follows a group of martial artists fighting to bring down The Man before their improbable breasts cause their spines to give out and erupt from their bodies like the chestburster in Alien.

Traveling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother's dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.

Superheroes don't always wear a cape, and in the case of Aiden Pearce and Delsin Rowe, the rise of the anti-hero is a consequence of an oppressive regime.

The ultra-violent co-op game sets players in an alternate U.S.S.R amidst a desperate crew of imprisoned street fighters struggling to overcome an oppressive regime by any means necessary.

Travelling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother's dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.

Liberating dance from the realm of solely elite, highly - skilled and trained athletes, the medium holds the potential to act as a form of subversion against oppressive regimes and capitalistic ideals — so it's not surprising that movement became a primary facet of artistic practice at the height of counterculture in the»60s.