Sentences with phrase «tyranny in»

The move has come as something of a surprise for many overseas observers: Former American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once called the country «the last outpost of tyranny in Europe,» while Lukashenko at one point described the internet as a «pile of garbage.»

I don't vote for tyranny in any guise, and tyranny is precisely what we face, in this disguise called «Climate Change».

Gamers become an Assassin in the war for liberty against ruthless tyranny in the most stylised and fluid combat experiences in the franchise to date.

Gamers become an Assassin in the war for liberty against ruthless tyranny in the most stylized and fluid combat experiences in the franchise to date.

Starting today, players can pre-order Tyranny in advance of the game's launch, and secure bonus material that will help demonstrate their loyalty to Kyros the Overlord.

Set during the American Revolution in the late 18th century the Assassin will battle for liberty against ruthless tyranny in the most stylized and fluid combat experiences in the franchise to date.

Regardless, it's not apparent that any institutions can stop majority tyranny in the long run, and certainly having disproportionate representation isn't perfect.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

We take care of ourselves — tending our sick, stabilizing our marriages, providing a much - needed community for our members, worshiping enthusiastically on Sundays — but about the «sickness of Joseph,» the tyranny in our land, we care not at all, or so it must seem to those outside the church.

From the beginning itself he set his face against the tyranny in Germany.

That would mean owning a gun for the day when you are called up to be in the militia to overthrow the tyranny in DC.

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.

'' 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.»

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?

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.

Interesting... «Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.»

cannabis prohibition is a stumblingblock that causes a person to become desensitized to his convictions on his conscience, and it is our lawful Christian duty to speak against this evil tyranny in our land.

-- in short, ALL people who oppose tyranny in this country.

Peter Mann, 46, and his wife, Jo Ann, 40, were part of a wave of Romanian immigrants who fled Communist tyranny in the late 1970s and early 1980s, settling in Portland, Oreg., and adapting to American ways.

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).

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

Not exact matches

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

Leadership WA: That advice about being reflective is important, because we all get so caught up in the tyranny of the inbox and the things that have to be done in this moment.

by We wholeheartedly endorse peaceful revolution, but unfortunately, history tells us that when tyrannies force the majority of the middle class into poverty in any country, violent revolution will result.

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

I just finished reading «Red Notice,» which documents the horrors of State - enabled tyranny, terrorism and corruption in Russia.

They were also influenced by escaping from countries where the freedoms we enjoy today did not exist, and they were very careful to learn from the tyranny of the masses they had escaped from in creating a nation that would not end up the same way.

While we celebrate the freedom in Europe from tyranny we now worry about consequences that might lead to anarchy.

The fallacy is in ignoring the fact that, for all the moral ambiguities in international relations, one side was promoting tyranny and the other freedom.

Indeed, the «battle» that resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns was not forgotten, except by Western apologists for Soviet tyranny.

But in an era of profound anxieties about Catholics, including fears about their voting power and about the danger of their introducing papal tyranny, he was eager to be elected.

Nietzsche was right, of course; without belief in God the public morality must, in the long run, finally collapse into either anarchy or tyranny - and most likely into tyranny following anarchy.

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

The unraveling of the Communist tyranny began in Poland, and it began with John Paul II's first and triumphant visit in 1979.

The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

If the fire burning in one's heart is one of tyranny, perhaps prayer will make one more tyrannical.

We hear the lamentations of Rachel in the scene of the Herodian massacre of the innocent babes in Bethlehem uner the tyranny of the Roman Empire.

Is it the case that Lutheran theology favors brute political realism, mercilessness in state operations, perhaps even docility in the face of tyranny?

The dynamics of a free and open society, in which the individual has full range for creative capacities, have shown their superiority over tyranny built upon a 19th - century ideology.

If the situation described by the Guatemalan bishops (who indeed are not fully aware of all the evils rife in the country) is not a tyranny, then I say that St. Peter has spoken in vain and that the situation he describes does not exist anywhere.»

So, many of the anti-Christian writings of the French, leveled primarily against Roman Catholic tyranny, but also in passing against all Christianity, found their way into eager American hands.

It is indeed a tyranny, for viewing leisure with a basic work orientation results in an unfortunate diminishment of the leisure experience.

It ends in tyranny.

I see people mastered by habits — drink, drugs, temper, lust — in a tyranny they can not disobey.

Through the religious tax the nation protects itself from creating financial tyranny through the concentration of the bulk of the national income in the hands of a few individuals, or of the ruler who might claim it in the name of the state.

However, the realism indicated above means that, along with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real world of the present to free the oppressed from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our society.

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.

The situation existing in Guatemala, Father Melville writes, is exactly the kind of situation which, the encyclical admits, is the exception that justifies recourse to violence: a situation «of obvious and prolonged tyranny which gravely violates the basic human rights of the human person.»

After a few years of chaos, tyranny returned in the form of Napoleon.

The voters in CA will not matter if this is determined to be a matter of civil rights, in which case the «tyranny of the majority» will be overturned.