Sentences with phrase «tyrant rule»

But out of the fear of Muslim uprisings against tyrant rule, the Ummayad and Abbasids (and now the Saudis) have limited it to rituals.

Despots still live, cheaters still prosper, genocidal murderers still walk free, tyrants rule — and terrorists who have killed innocent civilians still conduct their cowardice unpunished.

Should he — and how should he — open the prisons where the hungry starve, where tyrants rule the nations of the world, where disease and accidents knock the young from their temple perches to the rocks below?

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What's more, «Tyrant,» can help Americans understand the plight of Muslims who suffer under the brutal rule of dictators, he said.

Christians have celebrated the deaths of tyrants from Nero, to Domitian, to Hitler without hint of irony or violation of the golden rule thoughout the centuries!

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

This does not make only the USA guilty of great wrongs done / there's many nations ruled by tyrants / psychopaths / / those blinded by greed the great injustice by Israel against palestinians but sums up the horror that nations being capable of committing / heartless acts of inhumanity of cruelity / / based on halfbaked ideas / beliefs / religious brainwashing.

If «best» refers to high intellectual ability, personal dynamism, rhetorical eloquence, and the like, and if people with such powers are permitted to rule autonomously, they are likely soon to become tyrants.

Thus, the world was for man and from God, and God was neither cut off from human beings nor a tyrant that ruled over them.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler) for some years.

It is possible that papacy and Islam have the same cause: Like the actually Christian Germany was ruled by the anti-Christian tyrant Adolf Hitler for some years, the actually Christian Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium was ruled by the wicked tyrant Phocas (Phocas is one of the worst tyrants of history beside Hitler; he was an ancient Hitler).

No other nation has the means or stature to put tyrants in their place or uphold the rules of a liberal democratic world order.

Which their ruling tyrants kept them uneducated unable to think right or hard to convince?

At the Reformation, there was disagreement whether a Christian should submit to unjust rule, and some radical Christians upheld the right to rebel against a tyrant.

The allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

If you live in a time and place that is ruled over by a tyrant and you follow their laws in fear, you have not done anything wrong by doing so.

If anger can be justified by disobedience, then tyrants will rule.

At the midrange level, control is achieved by moving the tyrant inside the individual — Maggie Scarf refers to the «Invisible Referee,» Efforts to control thoughts and feelings as well as behavior refer to rules for behavior and cultural stereotypes, especially regarding gender.

The Church will endure the rage of this world, and of the tyrants who rule her, sheltered in the wounds of him who holds the keys of death and hell.

And if God's impassibility is interpreted as being emblematic of an imperious rule that is finally indifferent to the effect it has on the opinion of the governed — as in, for example, the classical doctrine of predestination — God appears as a tyrant who must be resisted in the name of human freedom.

True, the genuine ruler rules in the interest of the ruled; the tyrant is not, strictly speaking, a ruler.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

One of the most powerful of them, Pat Robertson, now in the midst of an as - yet - undeclared presidential campaign, has equated church - state separationists with communists and decries the «unelected tyrants» of the Supreme Court, encouraging defiance of its rulings.

It is applied by a power - hungry tyrant who thinks he is stronger than you and will do everything in his power to make you submit and bow the knee to his rule.

Perhaps God tolerates the rule of bloodthirsty tyrants so that the world can see unspeakable evil, which then gives Christians an opportunity to show them the light of Christ in direct contrast to that darkness.

Blakeman, on his Facebook page, has already called Santino «a tyrant» who «operates in secret and rules by intimidation and bullying.»

A deliciously exasperated tyrant, Hela will storm Asgard, but not before tossing Thor into the abyss, through which he will arrive on the planet Sakaar, a junkscape ruled by Goldblum's Grandmaster, a hedonistic despot in search of gladiators to fight and die in the arena.

Silvia Broome is a U.N. translator who was born in America, educated in Europe, but raised by her white parent farmers in a fictitious south African country called Matobo, ruled by Dr. Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), a liberator who became a tyrant when in power and in his old age is referred to by his followers as The Teacher.

By contrast, the «tyrants» were bureaucracy and rules that constrained teacher creativity and student learning, and procedures that prevented parents from having a strong voice.

On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown.

The oldest of the colonized worlds has come under the rule of an evil tyrant who desires to take the «home - world» for his own, so he sets out to conquer earth.

Today, we were introduced to the rule - bending tyrant / psychopath who is simply known as Hoyt.

You've got four years to turn your free nation into one ruled by a relentless tyrant.

Following the events of Phantom Hourglass, Link, Tetra, and the other pirates come across a new land that is ruled over by the Spirits of Good, who were responsible for sealing the land's tyrant, Malladus, into the earth after the concourse of the Spirit War with the railroad tracks called Spirit Tracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landscape.

Such dominion should express not the abusive rule of a tyrant but the loving and purposeful rule of our Heavenly King.

And he has done so, repeatedly, demonstrating that he can flaunt the rule of law as well as Jinping and any other despot among the gaggle of tyrants and megalomaniacs that dominate the dictator's club known as the United Nations.

Read the whole thing, but his punch line (s) is: Are you interested in pursuing Justice, in making the world / your country / your state a place governed by the Rule of Law, freer from predators and safer from tyrants than it currently is?

In a workplace ruled by a tyrant, it only takes one savvy employee to remind the others of their rights as workers.