Sentences with phrase «totalitarian countries»

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

, and he didn't seem to care that the Chinese will buy oil from undemocratic, totalitarian countries with (to be pejorative) despicable justice systems if we don't sell it to them.

Without this trust, economies crumble, as can be witnessed in various stages in contemporary totalitarian countries — in China, North Korea, and Venezuela — where the rulers attempt to exploit capitalism as a morally neutral engine of wealth, failing to understand the integral element of freedom protected by the rule of law.

Brain - washing: a method for systematically changing att.itudes or altering beliefs, originated in totalitarian countries, especially through the use of torture, drugs, or psychological - stress techniques.

This isn't a totalitarian country like China.

You've probably never lived in a genuinely totalitarian country.

If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there.

Not exact matches

The country is infamous not just for imprisoning journalists but for its totalitarian approach to media in general, including the suppression of social media through censorship of Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB) and YouTube.

China's oppression of Christians has a totalitarian rationale common to most Marxist regimes; the basis for the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries, however, is much more complicated: in part a traditional rejection of and in part a reaction to modernity.

Of course Christ's childhood didn't involve anything imaginatively comparable to a young child and old man resettling in a softly totalitarian European country, where they search for a new mother for the orphaned little boy.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Most of the common charges leveled against the Nicaraguan revolution (it is totalitarian, it exports arms to foment revolution in neighboring countries, it is a Soviet / Cuban puppet state, it will allow Soviet military bases on its soil, it represses the church, it persecutes Jews, it commits genocide against its native peoples, etc.) are easily refutable.

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.

In both the totalitarian and the professedly democratic countries, preparation for war and war itself increased the functions of the state and worked more and more curtailment of the individual.

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.

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.

Synopsis: This documentary explores the efforts of the E-Team (short for the Emergencies Team), a task force sent by Human Rights Watch into war torn countries and totalitarian states to investigate crimes against humanity and violations of human rights.

The First Act: «Show, Don't Tell» Issues & The Missed Opportunity Of Exploiting Theme Put aside for one moment that we're supposed to believe that one girl victor has given an entire country a sense of renewed hope to the point that it might topple a totalitarian dictatorship (neatly summed up by Katniss herself who remarks on the fragility of a system that could be brought down by a few berries).

Only Great Britain, adopting a very totalitarian government whose main purpose is to drive all refugees from other countries out, remains intact as a ruling nation, although the standard of living has been on a serious decline, with the brutal police and other authorities systematically torturing and killing those they deem as outsiders or troublemakers.

His unwillingness to accept totalitarian methods that have crushed fellow citizens, his shock and fear at what's happening to a «MexUsCan» and the three - countries - in - one future state presided over by Vera Farmiga add nuance and compassion to a story that, by its nature, is meant to be heavy - handed and extreme.

Graham Swain cycled off on a 16 - day tour through the extreme contrasts of Cuba, this fascinating and contradictory totalitarian state - run country that is like no other!

Papers, Please, jokingly referred to as a «bureaucratic simulator,» is a game about a border patrol officer in a totalitarian state who is forced to make life - and - death decisions regarding immigrants who wish to enter the country.

Beholder is set in a horrible country where a totalitarian regime sets down rules that must be strictly followed or you risk being beaten or killed.

The United States is an environmentalist's paradise compared with what went on in the totalitarian communist countries before the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Of course this is not going to happen tomorrow, but it may just happen faster than we think, especially in a country with a totalitarian regime accountable only to itself.

Ruin the world's economies, lower our standard of living, prevent the undeveloped countries from developing, and imposing a totalitarian / communist one - world government to (not) save the planet is a good thing to do anyhow.

Dubbed by most Western spectators as a «totalitarian regime», the country's government has been highly successful in their efforts to control the internet and digital economies — along with brick and mortar activities.