Sentences with phrase «war against society»

It examines three specific films in which Charlie Chaplin explored the topic of war and the evolution of his personal views and his use of dark comedy, spanning almost thirty years from being pro-war in Shoulder Arms (1918), a pacifist and anti-war in The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is about the individual's war against society and business interests that provoked international wars.

Eager to wage war against society's failure to care for the helpless, the Century had been restless with Barth's insistence that the church's prime responsibility was to open itself to God's mysterious transcendence.

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We are living in a world where the financial sector is waging class war against al the rest of society.

Also, President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs that were to improve living standards for the poor were undermined by the escalating costs of the war against the poor in Southeast Asia.

Protestants began wearing crosses, some - times large wooden ones, and to argue that the way of the cross taught by Bonhoeffer had powerful implications for how all Christians were to participate in society and, in particular, in (or against) war.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

When the allegedly sinful group was external to the society, the dialectic of saint and sinner could fuse with the notions of chosen people and holy war to justify extraordinary hostility and aggression against the despised group.

but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.

Sifton never mentions any of this, but Niebuhr's strident opposition to Roosevelt's preparations for war helps us to grasp the revulsion against war that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get thewar helps us to grasp the revulsion against war that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get thewar that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get theWar I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get there.

For this reason Luther sided against the peasants in the Peasants» War, and gave added religious sanction to a social stratification which is still much in evidence in European society.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

There were so many aspects of this that were interesting — the women - dominated elite profession and the discrimination against men, the way the government intended to use the science in its war, the polarization of society about the science and the practitioners of empirical philosophy... And amidst all of this?

Turning to more serious matters, Mr Reid said he joined the Labour party, like most others, to see a «more equal and just society» - not to «fight a war against terrorists».

The rising tide of eugenics and the concomitant glorification of war as a means of purifying the races was also influential in creating a permissive environment for conflict to occur: «with such attitudes, war often seemed desirable, both as the honourable way to struggle against fate and as a way of reinvigorating society» (p. 246).

We have been fed with details of thieving officials, money given to prayer - warriors of different denominations, the media, the civil society, traditional rulers, politicians and other stakeholders, but here is the take - away: the Buhari war against corruption has been utterly selective and selfish.

«We shall also continue to strengthen the relevant state institutions and work with Civil Society to win the war against corruption.

And stop getting sucked into this notion that a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, heterogenous society — drawn from ethnicities, races, and religions across the globe — can fight a war against another nation or group without «offending» some of our own people.

After losing 35 pounds for her role in the latest Star Wars movie, she spoke out against society's obsession with physical appearance in saying, «We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane.»

Snake's war against a shadowy organization controlling the world, known as the Patriots, uses its near - future technology to ask questions about personal freedom, the role of technology in our society as a tool to aid or even control us, even how media can influence and even trick us (a major role in the post-modern technological shit - show of a tale that is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which attempts to tackle the power of information as a memetic tool of control).

The Hurt Locker, the intense war drama about explosives experts in Iraq, took top honors in the 13th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, winning Best Picture against fellow nominees Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.

Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

Whether it's the Justice League meeting the Justice Society, top heroes fighting the coolest villains in Marvel's «Secret War,» or any number of times that multiple superheroes stood together against a foe larger than themselves, fans come out in droves to eat it up.

These kind souls are waging a monumental war against poachers and a society filled with fairy tale aphrodisiacs.

We found Guatemala to be a wonderful place to visit inasmuch as we were able to see such beautiful scenery and nature juxtaposed against the terrible current and after effects on a society that has endured such tragedies as civil wars, foreign incursions (from America, etc.) and yet, despite it all, we experienced nothing but graciousness and warmth from the Guatemalan people we met.

Against the background of a continent destroyed by war, the members of COBRA rejected the conventional values of a society which had spawned Auschwitz, and promoted their vision of a new type of expressionism for the people.

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For decades, Nancy Spero has drawn from the political to create compelling works of art that make a statement against war, the abuse of power and our male - dominated society.

The real war — if there is a war, some might dare to suggest that it is simply debate about policy in a democratic society — is a war against journalistic freedom to present Greens such as George Monbiot and Bob Ward as the utter lunatics they really are.

We should now be on a «war footing» against the enemy, without any question as to whose interests are really being served, and what kind of society it will create.

Moreover, science had been recruited into Thatcher's war against the non-existent Marxists: she had given the Royal Society a purpose.

It is about a global society under control of the news media that in order to distract from internal divisions, the media cooked up a false war against the Moon.

Taking a critical position against the «scold war» directed by several sectors of society at the present generation of American parents, the authors make a case for educators to help parents learn how to, and be allowed to, meaningfully participate in the work of schools.

One hundred years after the last shots were fired in the Civil War, African Americans were still struggling against unfair treatment and discrimination in practically all aspects of society.