Sentences with word «tyranny»

Savage Garden is on the radio (probably) and since Don is from New Jersey, everyone is celebrating our country's Independence from tyranny with body shots and bad decisions.

The ending of tyranny in the world is an eschatological hope, not a political policy, and one wishes the president's language would reflect that fact of life.

And we noted at the time, the plan of the UN alarmists to regulate man - made CO2 — which is not a pollutant, and in fact is a beneficial, essential gas for life on earth, and has almost negligible effect on global temperatures — offers one of the most frightening potentials for tyranny ever imagined.

I relish the masochist pleasure of being confronted by tyranny of choice.

Fossil fuels including «coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas — needs to be progressively replaced without delay,» are specifically identified as forms of tyranny over creation.

If you manage to beat the price tag, you can get all the games mentioned above along with Liberation HD, Assassin's Creed II, III along with Tyranny of King Washington The Infamy DLC.

(Airs 6/1/17 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Yale Professor Timothy Snyder about his new book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

Mr. Bush repeats the language of his second inaugural, in which «I pledged America to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.»

Building a Memorial to the Victims of Communism, to remember the millions who suffered under tyranny;

This way of thinking can only end in tyranny as it has in the past, but apparently we need another lesson because we've clearly grown too far away from our past experiences.

For instance, we can ask: How did the social / philosophical / religious environment in which a person was raised affect the way in which that individual thinks about tyranny in general, and the problem of abortion in particular?

The pope has already called the plight of the Syrian refugees who are average kind people escaping tyranny and terror an invasion of a holy nature into Europe.

The so - called tyranny of choice often results in no choice at all — and this problem sets up another challenge for retailers.

On of the reasons this country was started was to escape the religious tyranny which was in place in the UK at the time.

Since they are attempting to do this without renouncing their Marxist principles and without giving up the political tyranny of the party it will be interesting to see what develops here, for it seems likely they will get either less economic reform than they want or more political reform than they want.

It is very much worth reading, however, as an account of one particularly curious aspect of a strange religious underworld created by Communist tyranny.

As you know, they aren't tyrannies imposed ON journalism from the outside, e.g., by atomic structure or by a cosmic universal spiritual force.

The new tyranny system lets us choose between domination and destruction, meaning we can either kill everyone or make them into servants.

Americans of all political preferences would rise up against such tyranny if their rights were squelched by corporations, yet teachers unions have been legally trampling the free - speech rights of teachers throughout our nation for decades through forced dues used to fund their one - sided political agendas.

In defense of those «unalienable rights,» indeed, as the last line of defense, jurors can reject government tyranny by refusing to convict those subjected to prosecution for violating unjust laws.

Let my correspondent have the last word, for I could not agree more: «The real issues facing us, as I tried to indicate, are how to keep necessary order from becoming tyranny, how to achieve a sense of unity without the stultifying overtones of sameness so that people are free to be and do what they really believe is important.»

Those who founded this nation were escaping religious tyranny in England and did NOT want religion playing any deciding role in the government of our nation.

In this experience of sin lies the root of the principle of limited government, and of the balancing of systems and powers, so that the instruments of potential tyranny do not fall into a single set of hands.

Recently, Richard Pipes, in his book Property and Freedom, has argued that acquiring property is a natural instinct for human beings, and therefore societies that try to restrict or abolish property» such as Tsarist or Marxist Russia» tend to deny freedom and promote tyranny because they must repress human nature.

That is the very definition of tyranny through FEAR OF PAIN.

That is dominance, that is tyranny when one is over the other and we men are supposed to universally bow like subhumans.

Moving towards simply needing a majority of the population to have power could make majority tyranny worse, since separated powers wouldn't slow down the process or stop bills that hurt a minority with disproportionate power in one part of government.

Bonds of loyalty allow us to resist tyranny, whether in the form of the utilitarian despotism of global capitalism or the universal moralism that regards our traditions as impediments to the realization of true justice.

The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves by norm klassen wipf and stock, 234 pages, $ 24

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Germany's flagship political daily, has a stinging commentary on the «growing green tyranny» in Germany.

Full socialist countries match the despotic feudalisms in tyranny while surpassing them in social services but also in the thoroughness of their suppression.

Thus, religion prevents the degradation of our values «by serving to elevate and ennoble the soul» while also resisting the soft tyranny of the «gentle central power.»

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

Regarding the terrible tyrannies in journalism and Andy's response, «ANDY REVKIN says: But it's worse.

We rebel against not only tyranny but the Platonic idea of «philosopher - kings» — persons groomed from youth, told they are crafted from precious metals, and guided into positions of power and lives of advantage.

Tyranny comes about when people are scared.

Yet Solzhenitsyn himself refers to St. Augustine in From Under the Rubble (1974) and cites the distinction between the two cities» the realms of God and Caesar» as his justification for opposing tyranny and defending freedom.

Dean C. Curry teaches at Messiah College in Grantham, PA, and is the author of A World Without Tyranny: Christian Faith and International Politics.

So, now that the troublesome tyrannies have been transparencied, it's time for the Times to truly tackle them.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Elizabeth Murray, who died too young at 66 in 2007, stretched and contorted household scenes and objects into kinetic abstract festivals on baroquely shaped canvases that defied and escaped the presumed domestic tyranny of wifely and motherly duty.