Sentences with phrase «under communism as»

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As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

As Limbaugh notes, Benedict's predecessor, the late Pope John Paul II, was a noted foe of communism, after living under its oppressions in his native Poland.

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

As some of you know I was not born in the US but in a small eastern Europe country and the first 10 years of my life we were under communism.

«For Merkel, who spent the first 35 years of her life under communism, far from being an expression of the wish to unite, as it was in 1989, the phrase was now being used to divide.

But in spite of the fact that she was really a very beautiful girl I was too shy at that time to get involved, and apart from that, I already received a visa to America (which was extremely hard to get at that time as Poland was under communism).

Any message or deeper insights (mostly about communism and religion) fly under the radar, as the movie goes from one parody of old Hollywood film to another, but if you aren't a fan of TCM, this movie might not be your cup of tea.

Not bad for a movie characterized by Variety critic Peter Debruge, after its Telluride Film Festival premiere, as «the sort of joyless art film one might expect Polish nuns living under the clutches of 1960s communism to appreciate.»