Sentences with phrase «tyranny as»

If you haven't then think of Tyranny as a love letter to old - school RPGs, but with some modern tweaks to keep it fun.

When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty.

It said Mr Zardari's Pakistan People's party «represents a feudal aristocracy» which «stirs up red herrings of democracy, social justice and an end to army tyranny as its rallying cries».

I highly doubt the creator is such a crazed flake and for your sake (everyone) I hope you don't accept Tyranny as your «lord and savior».

Misunderstanding (and overestimating) the relative importance of freedom vs. tyranny as an axis of conflict in Iraq was one of the reasons why the Bush administration was so surprised at the difficulty of the postwar occupation.

That Graham aligns himself with this anti-gay position marks him as a supporter not only of bigotry, but oppression and tyranny as well.

Not exact matches

The document, which amounts to an official platform for his papacy, attacked unfettered capitalism as «a new tyranny.»

When I first discovered bitcoin five years ago, I pitched it to my physics colleagues as a way to end the tyranny of banks, fiat currencies, and governments and finally bring about a world of anarchy.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

Even without sexual pressure, there's the tyranny of fashion and the fear of being judged on your appearance; by women as well as by men.

Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

He said: «My prayers are with the people of Mosul as efforts continue to liberate the city and surrounding areas from the tyranny of Daesh.

No one's asking you to be the martyr who surrenders his precious gun to tyranny, Reasonable people are simply asking for a few common sense tools to keep a few less weapons of mass destruction off the streets and make buying an assault rifle at least as tough as buying Advil Cold and Sinus.

As I point out the tyranny of the Communist regime, I reflect on and judge myself.

It gave freedom from the tyranny of already antiquated forms of thought; freedom from the necessity of accepting at their face value, as part of a divine revelation, puerile and sometimes revolting survivals from primitive times.

We tend to think of holy war as the strong using God to justify their conquest of the weak, but the Old Testament flips this picture on its head: God arises on behalf of the weak when the tyranny of the strong has raged for far too long.

One of the primary reasons that our government was set up as a Democratic Republic (as opposed to a pure democracy) was to «protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority».

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 soon as any authority demands that my family be useful, we have tyrannAs soon as any authority demands that my family be useful, we have tyrannas any authority demands that my family be useful, we have tyranny.

That's rule by tyranny, and you might as well claim that the people living in North Korea have freedom as to say that God grants it.

Or can be similar words to that effect have been used as excuses for tyranny throughout history.

It must also help to divide the material interests of people, so as to help prevent democracy from degenerating into a tyranny of the majority (its abiding deformation).

It should be noted that the Church, as far as it is able to do so, resists both tyrannies of the state and of the individual.

Their framework should be rejected as a prescription for tyranny every time it is proposed.

The theological and moral witness of a Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands as evidence that, for those ready to look for them, the Lutheran tradition provides resources enough for resistance to tyranny.

But odds are there was a carpenter named Jesus who did gain some following but was likely married much like nearly all of the other supposed messiahs of that time period, as there were many, for the Jewish people had been awaiting his arrival for hundreds of years and were then feeling the boot of Rome on their necks and assumed this was the time the messiah would come as the true King of Israel and throw off the shackles of Roman tyranny.

As Peter Berger comments, «We must begin in the situation in which we find ourselves, but we must not submit to it as to an irresistible tyranny.&raquAs Peter Berger comments, «We must begin in the situation in which we find ourselves, but we must not submit to it as to an irresistible tyranny.&raquas to an irresistible tyranny.»

G. K. Chesterton defined tradition as «democracy extended through time,» and for Eliot, tradition offered the advantages of democracy — diverse viewpoints and a protection against tyranny — nestled in the cocoon of time.

Fearing «the tyranny of the majority» as much as they feared any tyranny, the framers recognized the need to check the democratic principle by the republican principle of representative government.

Those people up top will be looked at as heroes fighting against the global tyranny of transnational corporate aggression!!!

What I can be sure about however is the tyranny and number of despots that have burned books, regarding thinkers and those with an education as threats to be eliminated.

-- who give heed to the meaning of the great racist persecutions and who try to understand this meaning, they will see Israel as drawn along the road to Calvary, by reason of that very vocation which I have indicated, and because the slave merchants will not pardon Israel for the demands it and its Christ have implanted in the heart of the world's temporal life, demands that will ever cry «no» to the tyranny of force.

Each of these nations, as well as others, has rejected their past tyranny in favor of building a society based on the principles of liberty.

Would we read the Bible and treat it as a source of enlightenment concerning the problem of tyranny?

It is clear that Americans want to see themselves as people who are active participants in an ongoing struggle to overcome tyranny and expand the sphere of human freedom.

A great book to read is «Liberty and Tyranny» and «Ameritopia» by Mark Levin as it gives concise reasons for where we are and where we come from.

The ruling class of natural scientists, like so many tyrannies in the course of history, regarded a refusal to publish the laws by which it ruled as an indispensable instrument of its own tyranny (italics mine).

In other words, is there some basic methodology for going about the process of thinking about a fundamental philosophical problem such as the nature of tyranny?

'' The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.»

When one is attempting to separate oneself from «tyranny» it is very difficult to see one's opponents as one's philosophical siblings.

Both sides see themselves as struggling against tyranny.

When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.

(Gen. 6:3) The tyrannies and destructions of our day are really the same in kind as those that made human life either a shambles or a prison house, or both, in the days of Nero when this earliest Gospel was written.

Co-existence was crucial if we were to unite as a country in the face of the brutal tyranny of the English king and the bullying of Parliament.

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.

Yet Churchill saw himself as defending Christian civilization against tyranny.

As time goes on, society, including those religious, secular, atheists, nationalistic, patriotic, tyranny rulerships, etc., are all moving away from the peaceful messages and rules provided in the bible.

As the outside world no longer has any excuse for ignoring, the Polish Church — the Church of heroic resistance to Communist tyranny, the Church of Wyszinzki and Wojtyla — has another...

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.