Sentences with phrase «own feudal»

Charles, he writes, «presides at the centre of a court with no place for democracy or dissenting views... like some feudal lord.»

Between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, homicide reduced drastically in societies, which sociologist Norbert Elias noted is best seen in European countries, in which there was «the consolidation of a patchwork of feudal territories into large kingdoms with centralized authority and an infrastructure of commerce,» Pinker said.

Chrystia Freeland and Rex Tillerson should remember one point when they meet in Vancouver soon to discuss North Korea: Kim Jong - un runs a feudal gangland, not a nation state.

One of the key issues is plate holders akin to feudal lords, who own many of the precious few taxi licenses but never actually drive the cars themselves.

You can have economic malaise that others call mythical sec stag to describe a stagnant economy that mimics feudal society only with much higher standard of living.

Neoliberal evangelists of this revival of feudal privilege argued that economies don't need a government — unless, of course, the financial sector controls it, as landlords did in feudal Europe.

A feudal economy is based on rent and debt service.

That idea was traumatized by Marxism pushing classical political economy to its logical conclusion — to free capitalism from the carry - overs of the feudal epoch of landlordism, predatory finance and the monopolies that money - lenders obtained from governments.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

Antithetical to socialism, this retrogression towards feudal rentier privilege let real estate, financial interests and monopolists exploit the economy by creating an expanding debt wedge.

Along with most other economists of his day, he expected rentier income and the ownership of land, natural resources and banking to be taken out of the hands of the hereditary aristocracies that had held them since Europe's feudal epoch.

Another — predictably still attending Mass — cited monastic preservation of the classical heritage and papal restraint of feudal warfare, which proved its benignity.

Ford's novels often address the incidental attributes of English Catholicism, especially its connection with what Ker calls «feudal Toryism,» but the essential drama of faith remains out of view.

Tea Party America is very much like the old feudal system, where princes and priests had all, and everyone else existed at their tolerance.

Muhammad Ibn Qasim treated the Hindus very generously, keeping Hindu ministers and police inspectors in his service, but he was soon recalled and after his departure many of the Hindu feudal princes revolted against the Caliph's authority.

The Muslim aristocracy was feudal in character, depending on levies enlisted from the middle and lower classes of Muslims, usually of the same nationality as the feudal leader.

They might be described as the feudal underlords of the personality, of which Whitehead speaks in Modes of Thought: «Finally, the overlord tends to relapse into the conventionality of routine imposed upon the subordinate governors, such as the heart.

Thus Afghans would never enlist themselves in the feudal levies commanded by the Iranian Shi`a nobles.

Feudal times witnessed sharp cleavages in society, with slaves and serfs and sweating toilers of lands.

Rather one should look to the concrete grievances — high taxes, poor roads, periodic famines, governmental restrictions on free enterprise, and outmoded feudal dues, etc..

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

Thus Catholicism was the great justifier first of feudal society, then of monarchy; and today, in exactly the same fashion, it justifies revolution.

De Rougemont pays little attention to the social arrangements in feudal society which brutalized human marriage by founding it on political and economic convenience.

The feudal system was declining and it was a time of much fighting in western Europe.

That is easily observed for example in the period of transition from a feudal authoritative state and a society with a closed mental outlook, to a democratic, pluralist social order.

In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the past.

It changed the class structure of society from its earlier feudal form, but it did not eliminate that structure.

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

Now we are ruled with impunity by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded.

Most of the land there was owned by the feudal chieftains.

And when being persecuted by the rather cruel Feudal Shoguns the priest expresses his thoughts on the silence of god within his suffering.

This was true to some extent even for the poor within the limits set by feudal landlords and slave owners.

Festivals were the most obvious institutional expression of social and religious life in the feudal set - up of yesterday's Travancore and Cochin.

i was going to ask again, then i realized it was feudal

For the Japanese, still very conscious of important feudal families, use of these motifs suggests the association of biblical stories with important personages.

Indeed, Prussian Pietists found their greatest support from the centralizing state itself, which was struggling to gain control over the feudal aristocracy; so Pietism gradually took on political attitudes that supported absolutism.

The feudal aristocracies of the Middle Ages were one by one overturned by the forces of modern political, economic, and religious life.

The Church adapted herself to the feudal way of life, with the parish church and the monasteries as focal points of communal life.

Prussian Pietism, in contrast, developed in the context of a feudal aristocracy that gave it a relatively weak economic base.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

Modern Western civilization arose as men sought to throw off the restrictions of the feudal order and to expand their activities into the wider arenas opened up by commerce and exploration.

Here sovereignty might actually clash with sovereignty, as was the case of feudal Western Christianity and feudal Japanese and Tibetan Buddhism, the religious might clash with the secular.

The publication of related scientific literature (which up till now has been strictly forbidden and persecuted by the autocratic feudal government) must now form one of the items of our party work.22

Small groups of philosophers, scientists, scholars, and men of letters were increasingly convinced that the rising merchant and bourgeois class were destined by «the laws of nature and history» to replace the aristocrats of the old feudal order.

«33 Since the church stood as the ideological sanction of the feudal system, it was necessary to de-mythologize that system before it could be directly destroyed.

Over centuries Christianity became Christendom, the Roman Empire became a feudal «Holy» Roman Empire.

He also points out, however, that the market system removes some kinds of inequality, such as those in feudal and authoritarian systems in which the people holding political power dictate the economic distribution as well.

We know quite well that we are not listening here to the voice of God.10 We are listening to the voice of the dominant class in a feudal Society.11 The Catholic ethic is a frozen ethic.

However, as time passed and long before the appearance of Protestantism, monarchs began to overcome the feudal nobility.

It is also worth remembering here that feudal society in the Middle Ages was characterized by a descending hierarchy of greater and lesser lords, all the way down to tenant serfs.