Sentences with phrase «tyrant state»

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community — those most in need of the law's protection — to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

People of good will — of whatever religious faith — who are prepared to consider seriously the Pope's teaching in Evangelium Vitae can not now avoid asking themselves, soberly and unblinkingly, whether our regime is becoming the democratic «tyrant state» about which he warns.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community» those most in need of the law's protection» to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

Not exact matches

Tyrants who try to subdue Christian nations can not keep them in hand — there is way too much an emphasis on personal freedom and having the conscience responsible to God alone, not a controlled state.

Thomas Paine declared that, if it had not been for tyrants, «the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state, was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.»

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

She replies to the tyrant that there is another law higher than the state's, and that she will follow it because of its divine authority.

The facts which our incipient, embryonic democracy must face are more staggering than the old tyrants were — for example, that at the last presidential election almost twenty - eight million people who were qualified to vote did not exercise that privilege; that an accredited estimate is possibly true that in the United States four million people are living in destitution.

The tyrants you listed made their own state - run religions to invoke their terror.

God will send a tyrant in order to confront the «communist propaganda and infiltration» that are linked to «satanic forces,» which are attacking the United States.

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.

Corbyn's position, he said, meant that «any tyrant, megalomaniac or other person intent on carrying out genocide, if they have the support of an amoral state on the Security Council, will be able to conduct that genocide with total impunity, even if it were within our power to act to prevent it».

Shettima said during the inauguration of the projects that the people of Borno State would ever remain grateful to Tinubu for freeing them from the hands of a tyrant, who made frantic efforts to hijack the APC's machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly electState would ever remain grateful to Tinubu for freeing them from the hands of a tyrant, who made frantic efforts to hijack the APC's machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly electstate Assembly elections.

Some of the worst tyrants, such as Lenin, Mao Zedong and, for that matter, the present murderous dictator of North Korea, all stated their dedication to socialism.

Shettima while addressing journalists said the estate was named after Tinubu in order to appreciate him for rescuing the State's APC from the hands of a «tyrant» who made frantic efforts to hijack the party's machinery ahead of the 2015 Governorship, National and State Assembly elections in Borno but was resisted by forces led by Tinubu in favour of the Governor and majority of his associates.

How collectivists in America combine with global tyrants to destroy our personal, state, and national sovereignty

From the Mohawk Valley to the Finger Lakes, critics have called state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver a tyrant, an emperor, a con artist, and a power grabber.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (a coward / in my opinion) has the obligation to the people of our state to investigate all off these allegation's in a public forum and remove this tyrant who is quick to call a deceased 9/11 responder who had died from breathing in the toxic air at ground zero «not a hero» should be removed from public office and sent packing to his corporate headquarters were he and his cronies could abuse more pregnant women.I have a friend who was a 9/11 responder and was just notified that something was growing in his lungs.

Although many lab chiefs are humane and generous mentors, and most are at least fair and reasonable, some, as anguished tales make plain, comport themselves as workplace tyrants whose workers fear that they would jeopardize their professional futures — and often their right to remain in the United States — by asserting their workplace rights.

Best of luck in fending off the tyrants led by Stefan Pryor and the State Board of Education.

Just to push the envelope further, the institute issued a press release stating: «Of course, not all global warming alarmists are murderers and tyrants.»

Although he criticized Heartland's controversial billboard campaign that stated «the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists; they are murderers, tyrants and madmen,» he said that he would still be speaking at the conference.

There they fell during 2011, one after the other in past - their - prime domino descent: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunis, Hosni Mubarak from Cairo, Dominique Strauss - Kahn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Muammar Gaddafi from Tripoli, Georgios Papandreou from Athens, Silvio Berlusconi from Rome, US football guru and sex - crime cover - upper Joe Paterno from Penn State University — with media baron Rupert Murdoch, soccer supremo Sepp Blatter, Syrian tyrant Bashar al - Assad and Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh looking decidedly shaky, too.

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?

It apologized to Aboriginal groups for the nightmarish, state - led practice of residential schools; it contributed $ 500,000 to the ICC to enable the OTP to investigate atrocities in Darfur; under the Liberal Government, Canada decided not to join the «Coalition of the Willing» in Iraq; Canadian forces played an effective and leading role in the intervention in Libya; and, more recently, Canada rightly withdrew from the UN World Terrorism, I mean Tourism, Office after it appointed Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, as its head.