Sentences with phrase «such as a dictator»

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The use of military terminology such as «laser - focused» or «targeted» are signs that CEOs are ruthless dictators bent on world domination.

We must also avoid the temptation to back dictators such as Syria's Bashar al - Assad in hopes that they can defeat an enemy to which they have given rise and contain a conflict that they themselves have driven.

In the case of an eccentric atheist dictator such as Kim Jong - Il, Hitchens argued that his personality cult was as religious in character as any fanatical sect.

Regarding atheistic 20th century dictators and I'll recognize Stalin, Mao and Pol - pot as such.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

As in all such emotional revolts there is a temptation to identify the evil with some evildoer and to make individual men — capitalists, munitions - manufacturers, dictators — responsible for the situation.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

People who ask such questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.

By implementing such extraordinary measures, Mourinho has come across as a harsh dictator and has attempted to run the club in his own manner.

As such, the transition to democracy right after the death of dictator Franco continues to cast a long shadow.

Some of the worst tyrants, such as Lenin, Mao Zedong and, for that matter, the present murderous dictator of North Korea, all stated their dedication to socialism.

Typically, a national leader, such as a President, that decides to stay in power by ignoring provisions in their own Constitution or by ignoring election laws tends to try to stay in power, and sets themselves up as a dictator.

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

In effect, it might be reasonable to state that such roles and responsibilities to protect can not be blocked by the invocation of sovereignty — as claimed by Jammeh and many other dictators in the not - so - distant past — therefore, «sovereignty no longer exclusively protects States [individuals] from foreign interference; it is a charge of implicit responsibility for the States to be accountable on behalf of the welfare of their people».

IMELDA»S DREAM COME TRUE Imelda Marcos, widow of the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was infamous for her shoe collection but also for quotes such as this one: «People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty.

The Great Dictator is to be applauded for its attempt to awaken a sleeping world to the dangers that awaited it, and as such it is perhaps one of the most important movies ever made.

Word in the financial district that the Wells» company is, quite literally, sitting on a gold mine, prompts everyone from billionaire bankers (such as Bruce Greenwood, stealing his all - too - brief scenes) to Indonesian dictators to the mainstream media to want a piece of the action.

In the liner notes to DigitMovies» soundtrack CD, author / Bavaphile Tim Lucas explains that horror films were quite verboten by Mussolini during the dictator's reign, and it's rather startling that the country's premiere sound thriller made it to the screen with such grand style when the budget wasn't as massive as a glossy Hollywood production.

In 1974 groups sympathetic to the EOKA such as the Cypriot National Guard, supported by the Greek military junta, staged a coup, ousting the President and replacing him with a puppet dictator who owed his allegiance to the EOKA.

Structured around the paradigmatic Vietnam II (1973), the exposition also shows other stages not as well known, such as his early informalist phase, the sphinxes he created in the 1950s, the napalm paintings of the 1960s, the portraits of dictators and politicians — including Franco — or their mercenaries and interrogations, all of which help to convey the complexity of Leon Golub's work.

No greenhouse gases, no wealth transfers to despotic dictators, 6000 years of fuel ready to be used, and useful radioactive byproducts such as cesium to kill e-coli bacteria poisoning meats, spinach, etc..

In other cases, the door is left open for iron - fisted dictators such as we have witnessed in the 20th century and the concomitant deaths of millions.