Sentences with phrase «tyrannical at»

«It's becoming a bit tyrannical at this point...» might be a bit aggressive of a lead - in from the likes of Forbes, but there is no dancing around it — the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has been named the # 1 ski area in North America for the sixth year in a row as we rapidly approach the kick - off to the 2017 season.

Remember that toddlers can seem tyrannical at times due to their inflexibility in regards to routines.

Not exact matches

Over the course of his career at Apple, Jobs was accused of tyrannical outbursts and unorthodox management strategies.

One of Francis's primary concerns is a «tyrannical anthropocentrism» (68) that treats nature as something to manipulate at will rather than live with in harmony and respect.

«Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.»

And a rapid fall into an actual war of all against all possible at any moment, since once the yoke is lifted from souls trained to be tyrannical, their apparent passivity is revealed for what it is, and they devour one another.

And yet the controversy over Chick - fil - A is a clear sign that religious liberty is at risk and that this nation has reached the brink of tyrannical intolerance from at least some of our elected leaders.

To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.

Man at his core is greedy, controlling, tyrannical, and will use all power to control including shutting down social media.

I have no bias at all against the deluded tyrannical narrow - minded justice - obstructing pedophile - protecting idiotic Catholic Church.

At the next level (borderline), some control is achieved, but usually through tyrannical means — rules are often inflexible, with a black and white quality, and maintained through threat and intimidation.

Those listening to him would have had clear memories of injustice, ridicule, heavy taxation, and even genocide at the hands of the tyrannical Roman government.

He went through normal schools with above - average grades, even while his behavior at home remained violent and tyrannical.

A God who at first glance is comparable to the picture of the Oriental ruler, who governs his people with complete arbitrariness, bound by no rational law; but a God who is conceived as wholly different from an Oriental ruler, since all physical traits are lacking, all tyrannical desires alien; a God who desires justice and righteousness and punishes sin, a God who loves His people as a father his first - born son, a God to whom the religious man ills as to his father, and in whose help he trusts in all situations of life.

At what point, then, does well - meaning political intervention become tyrannical?

Maybe not exactly American, Jeffersonian values, but at least Muslim and Christian citizens would be determining their fate together, not a foreign nation or their tyrannical leader.

«We can arrive at absolutism or a truly totalitarian or tyrannical regime,» Ortega said, «When someone believes they possess the one and only truth.

Invariably, the men I questioned about Evans defended him, insisting that he's not urging men to become tyrannical leaders at home — that his point is for men to become responsible, loving and compassionate fathers and husbands.

I think the fact that so many tyrannical regimes get to vote at the UN ends up diluting the U.N.'s potential to do good works.

Then I got a job at a McDonald's with a tyrannical, mocking manager who had everybody nervous and paranoid all the time, and none of us ever gave the customers anything more than a «please don't complain» vibe.

Rafa Benitez» position at Liverpool has been fiercely defended by the majority of the club's fans, especially in the face of the tyrannical rule of their American owners.

At the moment it is largely being done in the name of protecting vulnerable people, but by attempting to prevent tyranny we have ourselves become tyrannical.

A post-colonial power who deposed / imposed regimes at its wish, and supported friendly governments no matter how tyrannical or corrupt they became (Suez crisis, Mubarak, Rezah Pahlevi - last Shah of Persia --RRB-.

Laura has written numerous articles for the Age of Autism blog, done radio, TV, and documentary interviews, spoken at rallies in CA to oppose tyrannical and unethical vaccine legislation, sponsored speakers and documentaries in her area, given informal talks, and more, all in the hopes of sparing other children and their families from the devastation that vaccines leave in their wake.

It's an animated film, created by an Irish animation studio (Cartoon Saloon) and based on a novel by a Canadian author (Deborah Ellis), but despite these seeming obstacles to authenticity, this is a deeply felt and unsparingly realistic depiction of Afghanistan at a time of tyrannical rule by religious fundamentalists.

Stephen Rea's yammy face and the smallest twitch of his lips convey Inspector Finch's every disguised exasperation at the tyrannical government he's tasked to protect, and this time around, I was truly invested in his character arc.

Directed by Robert Weine, it features Werner Kraus as the tyrannical Dr. Caligari, a sideshow barker in cape and top hat who commands the sleeping Cesare (Conrad Veidt), the carnival's star attraction, to rise at night and do his bidding, a literal sleepwalker who is both monster and victim.

(Crispin Glover narrated the live version we saw), the poignant, coming - of - age in tyrannical - Iran animated film, «Persepolis» directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, Todd Haynes «Dylan fantasia, «I'm Not There» which breathed new life into the biopic (and was a perfect conceit for its elusive shape - changing protagonist), Pedro Costa «s gorgeous - looking, but little - seen, «Colossal Youth,» David Cronenberg «s episodic, but still engaging and continuing look into violence with, «Eastern Promises» and Noah Baumbach «s widely disliked, but still valuable, «Margot At The Wedding.»

Shocked at Voichita's newfound piety, Alina feels distinctly out of place in the tyrannical atmosphere reigning over the remote cloister, but in order to be with Voichita (an amour fou which is mostly one - way), Alina resolves to join her religious calling.

Married in a rural Indian village 20 years ago at the behest of a tyrannical grandfather, this couple doesn't seem destined for a happily ever after.

After all, it's not every day she gets invited to the annual costumed bash at the Dragon's Lair, the premier magic theater in Manhattan.What promises as a night of magic and mystery, quickly turns into a night of mayhem and murder when the boss» equally tyrannical wife dies on stage.

Still, it includes some great bits of publishing lore, like the time Talese stood up to her boss, the tyrannical Dick Snyder, head of S&S at the time (notably, that company is now run by a woman, CEO Carolyn Reidy) and insisted on publishing Schindler's List.

After a confrontation with his tyrannical captain, he is marooned in a ship's boat — left to die at sea.When Elizabeth and her crew, being pursued by Intrepid, find and rescue Colin, the two learn that their lives are entwined in a macabre way — they have a common enemy, Captain Beauregard Dangerfield, the demented master of Intrepid, and a growing mutual attra...

Arriving at Tahiti on 15 November he soon found interest in luxuriant vegetation and the pleasant intelligent natives who showed the benefits of Christianity, refuting allegations he had read about tyrannical missionaries overturning indigenous cultures.

His perpetual smug grin says, «Come right at me, you giant tyrannical penguin in a bathrobe.

This painting depicts the moment at which the heroine Lucretia kills herself after relating that she has been raped by the son of Rome's tyrannical ruler.

History has shown that tyrannical leaders can kill 10 - 15 % of their populations, and often suffer no repercussions at all.

All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.»

It is my recollection that you have reasoned backwards to conclude that if someone is a Socialist, they are immoral (at least that is how I interpret your descriptions of their morality) and are hypocrites — as in truly wishing for a particular outcome (tyrannical government action) while cloaking their arguments in false colors.

But when the president of the CBC says the former host of Q was egomaniacal and tyrannical and created a culture of fear in the workplace (apparently confirmed by numerous CBC employees), one has to wonder if the CBC's former boy wonder could even get a job reading the news on the night shift at CBTX in Bella Bella.

The relentless pursuit of high self - esteem has become a virtual religion — and a tyrannical one at that.

They humbly urge the Queen to protect them from a tyrannical overseer and express disappointment at the failure of colonial authorities to keep their promises — «an agreement which we have not lost from our minds since & we have made our part of it good».