Sentences with phrase «ruling elite in»

The events surrounding Kurt Waldheim's campaign and subsequent election in 1985 - 86 played a major role in uncovering the real role played by the Austrian ruling elite in the Second World War.

Clearly, the Council is playing it safe and counting on continued access to the ruling elite in Albany — a gang that would clearly remain in control under Andrew Cuomo.»

Many leaders of the Latin church realized in the sixties that the church failed to express its true nature when it continued the age - old alliance with the ruling elite in its oppression of the peasants and workers.

Critics dismiss the Russian Church's commitment to unity as a naked power move — or an effort to toady up to Putin and the ruling elite in today's Russia.

This essay examines Kazakhstan's latest economic modernization campaign, highlights its shortcomings, and proposes how the West could assist the country's ruling elite in carrying out reforms to complement the modernization process.

A former prime minister of India once defined his job as «managing contradictions»; this onerous task, as much moral as political, has remained the responsibility of ruling elites in democratic India.

Ruling elites in the Western world have recently identified a convenient scapegoat explaining all their failures: they call it populism.

The ruling elites in Pakistan are much more interested in developing a nuclear arsenal and maintaining the corrupt government that favors its elites than they are in improving the infrastructure that would benefit the country overall.

Not exact matches

«Only the most senior leaders and ruling elite are granted access to worldwide internet directly,» Moriuchi wrote in her report.

«He is so in tune with his coalition, which is so out of tune with the traditional ruling elites of this country.»

Policies: Wang is largely considered a more liberal leader in the party's ruling elite.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

In short, privatization of schooling protects the ruling elite.

But the WASP elite lost confidence in its right to rule.

We revisited the analysis and found substantive changes in how the ruling elite use the internet.

They might make a few motions that look like communism, but they are more interested in keeping their personal power and wealth, no different than Qaddafi in Libya, or any of thousands of dictators and ruling elites throughout human history.

Plenty of evidence is in on this point: when a ruling elite decides to destroy a group of people in a society, most of the people who are not targeted will not resist, whatever their religious affiliation.

In Power and Privilege Gerhard Lenski identifies clergy as members of the «retainer» class, buffering the ruling elite from the peasants.

But it IS worthy to note that people continue to sheepishly believe absurdities about certain personalities that are put out there by people promulgating this or that ideology or simply trying to exercise social control by making people feel unworthy in comparison to ruling elites.

They had no illusions that the people would always decide rightly, but they would not invest the power to decide in a ruling elite.

In this deformed classical context, the theoria of the philosopher is a conceptual legitimation of imperial domination by the ruling elites and the historical victors.

How did it happen that Europe's intellectual elite came to be capable of flouting all rules of reason in the name of reason and of condoning the total contempt of morality in the name of a higher morality?

While parties were thought to be ruled by hidden elites in smoke - filled rooms, the weakness of parties has, ironically, led to a less democratic system with fewer avenues open to average people.

His first postulate is that doing good is nothing more than avoiding evil, while his second is that in a Demiurge - ruled universe there is always available to an elite a trustworthy perspective in which anyone and everything at any time can be seen as nothing but evil.

We may, of course, regret the fact that this alliance between church and state has allowed the ruling classes to co-opt Christian religion in order to legitimate the interests, the hopes, the struggles and the ambitions of the dominant elites at the expense of the oppressed and powerless sections of society.

For example a Westernized urban elite may rule over a traditional rural society without encouraging any changes in that society.

Though all of society participated in them and upheld them, they were especially embodied in and manifested by a ruling elite composed of magistrates and ministers.

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

He wants to join the elite US Sigilry Corps» Rescue and Evacuation Department and help save the lives of his countrymen who are fighting in World War I. To realize that dream, he must do the impossible — go to school and get proper training in the science, excel beyond others, and figure out how to get himself a position on the female - ruled R&E team.

Before (and after) the Europa League game against Ostersund, Arsene Wenger emphasised that Arsenal's main objective remains to finish in the Top Four to achieve Champions League status next season, as he doesn't agree with the rule that you can enter the elite competition by the «back door» if you win the lesser Europa League.

If it wasn't these two greedy attention seekers I'd be all for a fighter between an MMA Champion and an elite boxer in a cage with modified boxing rules and MMA gloves.

It's a good thing Paul is special, because he'll have to break all the rules to be an elite player in 2017.

Against Olypmpiakos and deep inside Greek territory where they rule supreme, Arsenal achieved performance at the peak of our powers in an elite competition that we were already ruled out.

The English FA have made it clear the new rules aren't being proposed in order to stop the elite players from outside the EU plying their trade in the Premier League, but to try and benefit the health of the England national team.

They went from knocking on the door of Europe's elite to has - beens in the last decade of Wenger's rule.

«Australian Rules Football and the so - called «Barrassi Line», rugby league in New South Wales and Queensland, rugby union with a largely elite supporter base, and soccer as the migrant game.»

The first is that Iran's two - track policy in Iraq is a result of divisions within the Iranian ruling elite.

It is therefore good evidence of a genuine commitment to democracy among the political elite — evidence that is likely to inspire trust and confidence in the rules of democratic gain.

Countries like China or Iran build firewalls and employ small armies of censors and snoopers in determined attempts to keep their bit of the internet controlled and uncritical of their ruling elites.

Ruling elites should look at themselves in the mirror before blaming others.

They bleed into each other, prop each other up and together create a firestorm of anger and resentment at the UK's ruling elites: those in charge of our politics, our financial system and our media were all battered by public hostility in 2012.

North Korea, a peculiar country that managed to secure generations of totalitarian rule, is, indeed, itself a contradiction: the elite on the top try to make use of nuclear weapons — the technology of modern social invention, to maintain social culture and tradition that has long been lost in other parts of East Asia.

These signs of weakness in a man who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 35 years have injected new urgency into factional battles led by the elite within his ruling ZANU - PF party.

The main cause of political instability in Nigeria has been the quest, usually by the Northern ruling power state (but also by other regional elites, such as the South - East when they had the brief opportunity under Ironsi and arguably Jonathan as well!)

Former President Rawlings captured it aptly in a statement in which he was convinced that, by 2008, Ghanaians were being governed ``... by the rule of a morally bankrupt and visionless elite that has transformed arrogance into an art, glorifying corruption in style, and raping the country's resources with shameless rapacity.»

Voting Remain entails a vote of confidence in this ruling elite and their record.

In its very swift decline, the PDP reflects very much, the deeply opportunistic essence of neo-colonial politics as well as the manner that our ruling elite always passed over the opportunity to build the blocks of a genuinely great country.

But the defining characteristics of modern politics in the United States are a corrupt campaign finance system that enables corporate and wealthy elites to purchase political outcomes; and an abundance of anti-democratic electoral, ballot access and debate rules designed to minimize participation and choice.

He said the «ruling elite» had made the «indigenous majority... second - class citizens in every possible sphere».

Larger, more cohesive protests in Tahrir Square likely send a stronger signal to investors, who may anticipate that ruling elites will be inhibited in expropriating wealth from the economy.