Sentences with word «totalitarian»

Ironically, the key role that human - rights ideas had played in the movements that led to the nonviolent collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and apartheid in South Africa had fueled another deleterious development.

In an address attacking global warming, Dr Phelps said it should not be forgotten that» some of the strongest supporters of totalitarian regimes in the last century have been scientists».

This was our rude awakening to life under the control of totalitarian state government.

The gospel continues to have its enemies and not solely in totalitarian states.

This line of reasoning has been used by totalitarian governments of both the right and the left to justify their existence and their most abhorrent actions.

There's also quite a bit of objective evidence that at least in practice, governments that claimed to be communist simply haven't worked particularly well (and regardless of intent, most have turned into totalitarian dictatorships very quickly).

The scenes in Katniss's home turf, District 12, have the feel of life under totalitarian control.

In other words, you fear that atheists in this country could be as totalitarian as the principles of Westboro Baptist Church or the Christians in Salem.

It seems that the people who most appreciate living in Canada are immigrants, especially immigrants from totalitarian regimes wherein individual rights and freedoms are submerged by all - knowing elites who are floated into power and maintained there by military / police might.

The eyes of those who have recently come out from under totalitarian rule are set on another model.

It should be clear that she well understood that the forms of totalitarian rule varied, but the Nazi and communist maximum uses of force were fused at the top, much as Gaetano Mosca's vision of a political class that could achieve dangerous ends occurs in a wide variety of situations and conditions.

However it is typical for totalitarian governments because they have tendency to have their laws ajusted toward protection of status - quo.

He embodied the spirit of the early days of the ecumenical movement, and its leaders became some of his closest friends and allies in the fight against totalitarian ideology.

Bureaucracies invariably become authoritarian, if not totalitarian, and they very readily lose sight of their boundaries.

I adore Ray Bradley's dystopian classic, a 1984-esque totalitarian future with literature - destroying firemen, and with Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon filling out the frame and Rain Bahrani (the underrated and under - seen 99 Homes) behind the camera this could be a page - to - screen project of great intrigue.

The opposition party affirmed that democracy thrives on constitutional processes of separation of powers, due diligence and transparency and not on totalitarian tendencies.

«Democracy thrives on constitutional processes of separation of powers, due diligence and transparency and not on totalitarian tendencies.

She vows to kill Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet), the country's totalitarian leader who wants to eradicate all of Tris's kind and restore peace among the five remaining factions.

They've agreed to self - censorship before with totalitarian countries.

The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by ryszard legutko encounter, 200 pages, $ 23.99

Furet, in sharp contrast, sees the two totalitarian movements as dangerously utopian efforts to overcome the spiritual dissatisfactions of liberal democratic modernity.

So far, there has been no government in the world that adhered to the theoretical governance of communism, they all became totalitarian dictatorships.

This had a considerable impact in the US, as it was involved in a war against totalitarian regimes.

Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can't find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation.

Bet you ten bucks the same troll talking about totalitarian regimes are the same as Atheism will show up under another profile name in another 20 minutes.

As Kurth noted, the increasingly totalitarian character of political correctness is a function of its declining persuasiveness.

Relax, the planet is fine except for totalitarian politics.

Erskine's performance in the treason trials played a major part in halting Pitt's totalitarian ambitions.

Much of religion is about denying pleasure and happiness to others and using totalitarian mindsets to accomplish these and many other oppressive agendas.

Low - intensity conflict is a comprehensive, totalitarian project through which the United States seeks to manage social change in the third world in order to protect perceived vital interests.

For it does the contrary of what totalitarian rulers commonly do.

«What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever - growing masses of our century.»

Martyrdom, in the twentieth century, became inevitable in the context of totalitarian orders which quench the spirit, sow death and scorch the earth.

Descriptive suppression, affective discretion, and technical subtlety may be why Bailey's development survived the Cold War, when so much figurative art was considered slavish copying, if not potential totalitarian propaganda.