Sentences with phrase «state authoritarianism»

The PM's shameful response to the Calais crisis is a mixture of police state authoritarianism and emotional indifference

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To join and stay in the EU, member states must be democracies — that means unelected European Commissioners, and even other heads of other member states, do not pronounce on member state democratic politics (unless a country is veering towards authoritarianism — in which case the EU treaty has clear procedures for this — see Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:SOM:en:HTML).

In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.

This is for one very simple reason: because to abolish the distinction between suspects and those suspected of nothing, to place them entirely in the same category in the eyes of the state, is a clear hallmark of authoritarianism.

So, how exactly does Ba'athism compare with movements like Integralism, Fascism, National - Socialism, National - Solidarism, Juche, Maoism, Stalinism and / or other movements that promote Authoritarianism and / or a one - party state in combination with Socialist principles and Nationalist principles?

Whereas sensible people think «ok, the state needs to go back in its box and respect individual citizens, for example by taking seriously and respecting their individual rights», Blond thinks «hmm, authoritarianism - let's just get rid of rights altogether and encourage Virtue!»

I couldn't agree more with your editorial in reference to «New York: Welcome to the state of authoritarianism.»

Several recurring thematic elements are common to a number of Hauff's movies, such as the struggle of an individual against authoritarianism, whether perpetrated by a parent (as in Paule Pauländer (1976)-RRB-, a community (Mathias Kneissl (1970)-RRB-, an institution (Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (The Brutalization of Franz Blum, 1974), or the police and security apparatus of the state or society at large (Stammheim and Knife in the Head).

``... we argue that authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity»... the formation of an «elite warrior leadership» to «battle for the future of the earth» [p.xvi]... Chapter 9... «we might begin the process of constructing such real universities to train the ecowarriors to do battle against the enemies of life.

The tweet storm that erupted after a Washington State judge declared Trump's executive order banning people from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the U.S. unconstitutional (the decision was upheld in the Ninth Circuit) has been a fascinating psychological study in authoritarianism and a lesson for all of us about the importance of impartial judges.

Links between authoritarianism and emotional problems have also been found in the United States.