Sentences with phrase «under tyranny»

It is only under the tyranny of environmental dogma that humans are prevented from adapting to their circumstances.

Barnes lets us hover over the composer's life, peep into his thoughts, and envision what life under tyranny is like for the creative mind of the genius.

Historians would be first to note that the history lesson in Randall Wallace's (The Man in the Iron Mask, Pearl Harbor) screenplay is barely reminiscent of the facts (much taken from the Blind Harry poem, which is generally disregarded as romanticized folklore), but taken as a work of mostly fiction, it is still a rousing and well - executed tale of the inspirational fight for the right not to live under tyranny that has a universal appeal.

Children spend their entire academic year under the tyranny of class schedules, homework, projects, and the demands of athletics or other extracurricular activities, yet within a week or two of summer break they're whining «I'm bored!»

3 points is a hollow word which will not keep me warm at night under this tyranny we call the wenger era

But historical experience worldwide, under tyranny and torture, has made that truth increasingly self - evident in our era.

No one will ever tell you that satan groomed that kid and had him to that school so the mothers and fathers screaming and falling to their knees in the school parking lot could feel the misery that Bethleham felt under the tyranny of the deranged Herod.

We are now so thoroughly under the tyranny of our vices that it would be difficult for us to recognize an external tyrant at all.

Fifth and finally: which is better, going into the state of nature, or remaining locked under tyranny?

Plato and Jefferson, and I think the average American, are united in thinking it is better for a society to go through the fire of revolution than to remain under tyranny.

Rather, it is placed under the tyranny of a work mentality.

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.

Not exact matches

Give freedom to the Muslim masses trapped under Islamic tyranny and watch what happens.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

(An excerpt from the book, focusing on the happiness / misery calculus, appeared in the April issue of Scientific American, under the title «The Tyranny of Choice.»)

Myself and others who expected and hoped that the Iraqis» assumed a) comparative socio - economic sophistication, b) gratitude to America, and most of all, c) hatred of the tyranny they experienced under Saddam, would together outweigh their cultural / historical impediments to orderly and democratic government were WRONG.

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

Yet when the mind is not confused by utopian illusions it is not difficult to recognize genuine achievements of justice and to feel under obligation to defend them against the threats of tyranny and the negation of justice.

Fraternity under compulsion is the most malignant idea devised in modern times; it is a perfect path to totalitarian tyranny.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

People who face tyranny and enslavement, or suffer under harsh and cruel governments, long for liberty and freedom.

All through the Cold War, their journal was one of the few reliable sources for documentation on the persecution of believers under Communist tyrannies.

Under the pretext of «patients» rights» and a supposed obligation of doctors to adhere to the medical moral consensus — a tyranny of the majority, if you will — Emanuel and Stahl would prohibit doctors from conscientiously objecting to performing requested procedures on moral grounds.

what can you do for the victims as long as Christians hold power in our country, were living under christian tyranny, my heart goes out to my Sikh brothers, and i will protect them but those in power calls them evil, what we need is a separation of church and state, that's the only way to help us, as long as Christians have all the power, we will always besecond class citizens,

The isolated, politically atomized man can still work, or labor, can still fall back on the intimacies and support of private life, as men have done under many tyrannies.

We need to change the motto to «One nation under gods tyranny, with liberty and justice for none».

His adjustment to the new environment was by no means easy; he was especially anxious about his mother, sister, and brother, who were suffering under the Nazi tyranny.

Nazi tyranny was subdued but Communism under Russian direction arose to trouble the world.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.

On the one side was a stratified society, with a few rich and many poor, with private property in land and water, with money, trade, and credit and the inequalities and tyrannies incident to a commercialized regime — all this under the ægis of the baals.

If this is not to happen in a democracy as it has under Nazi and Communist tyranny, the freedom and sanctity of the home must be safeguarded as a basic foundation.

Obvious - «tyranny of the majority can happen under the law.

multiple things come to mind, but what Campbell has suffered under WENEGERS tyranny outshines others and says a lot about the Man...... this kid has a lot of talent just rusting on the bench so Le Fraud plays his faves....

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.

«The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.»

«Our coordinating partner: Intersociety had severally argued expertly and seminally that the emergence of dictatorship or tyranny and its sustenance under a civilian administration, is not the sole activity of a dictator or tyrant; but a hatched conspiratorial project involving other dictatorial or tyrannical elements.

Considering the role these so called intellectuals played during the last general election and the very shameful role they have continued to play even in the face of full blown tyranny and state sponsored harassment of political opponents coupled with the unprecedented abysmal performance we are witnessing under a President they sold to Ghanaians, I'm reasonably convinced that they are a major part of our problem in this noble country.

Under them a culture of silence and fear has been imposed on the Nigerian people and few are ready to risk life, limb and liberty by speaking truth to power or resisting and standing up to tyranny.

For one thing, these earlier experiments had nothing to do with radiation poisoning; for another, they were performed under the orders of vicious, depraved and murderous tyrannies.

... We're definitely under more pressure and can feel the dragon waiting hungrily for results, micromanaging our projects and — indirectly — our lives, squeezing the breath out of their students by tyranny or coercion.

Through a fluke, one of the sharks is found dead and Oscar (Will Smith, I Robot), one of the lowly fish living under the shark tyranny, claims to be the one that did the shark in.

But you'll find that there's a strange system at play: It's compulsory for singles to find a partner, under the watch of an oppressive staff, foot soldiers for a tyranny of coupledom.

We could understand if it were filmed under Ceausescu's tyranny and paranoia.

Still, it's Oldman, whose performance as Churchill feels definitive, revealing a fearsome, sometimes fearful man racked by self doubts and still able to find the conviction to rally his nation, and countless nations to come, to fight against living under the heel of tyranny.

In a time that looms around the corner of today, under a gathering storm of tyranny, The Dandelion Insurrection appears... Visionary and inspiring.

And while we're here, what we're doing is we're going to be freeing these lands up and getting the ranchers back to ranching, the miners back to mining, getting the loggers back to logging, and where they can do it under the protection of the people and not be afraid of this tyranny that's been upon them.

For our profession to come under the thumb of government — potentially — is to risk tyranny over the public at large.

What kind of a totalitarian tyranny are we courting, under the guise of protecting children?

There is this principle called «due process» in our democracy that you seem to want to ignore that allows folks and organizations to resist the tyranny of bureaucrats with too much unelected power under their thumbs, my friend.