Sentences with phrase «with tyranny»

And that means that in the absence of agreement we lawyers are stuck with the tyranny of the billable hour.

Like almost every real or contrived problem, Big Government extremists around the world now openly admit that they hope to fight «climate change» with tyranny.

American federal employees will not put up with tyranny.

IPCC has replaced this with the tyranny of the consensus.

Magic spells are also handled differently than in other games, with Tyranny featuring an interesting spell crafting system.

I found that poor rolls of the dice, coupled with the tyranny mechanic, could cause entire missions to fail.

With Tyranny, we made sure these were at the forefront, through the lens that evil has already conquered the world.»

My greatest gripe with Tyranny is that it ends with a whimper.

With authorship and entrepreneurship now equal partners, the new authorpreneurs have thrown off the dictatorship of the editor to replace it with the tyranny of the market.

@gerrit From your link: «Ochlocracy, or Mob Rule, is often incorrectly equated with Tyranny of the Majority, but differs because Ochlocracy involves illegal action and does not necessitate a majority.»

Fr Wolfgang Capito in Basle, working on the proofs of Froben's edition of Luther's writings, wrote begging Martin to be careful in dealing with the tyranny of the Church.

The decline starts with tyranny of the majority.

Our freedom will be buried in the same trench with his tyrannies.»

Not exact matches

Polman sides with those who argue that the tyranny of quarterly goals traps public companies into continually trying to drive up share prices for investors, while downgrading more long - term, complicated missions, like improving working conditions and the environment.

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

He said: «My prayers are with the people of Mosul as efforts continue to liberate the city and surrounding areas from the tyranny of Daesh.

But what happens when that tyranny is replaced with a power vacuum?

The unraveling of the Communist tyranny began in Poland, and it began with John Paul II's first and triumphant visit in 1979.

It is indeed a tyranny, for viewing leisure with a basic work orientation results in an unfortunate diminishment of the leisure experience.

However, the realism indicated above means that, along with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real world of the present to free the oppressed from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our society.

It might have been possible to affirm moral righteousness along with Hellenistic absoluteness; after all, it is not beyond our imagining that a kind of moral tyranny, with a calculus of rewards and punishments, could be ascribed to an entirely absolute being.

He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.

That is, Rauschenbusch would have denied that politics, or for that matter a political economy that put production and distribution in the hands of the state, could be «the comprehensive and decisive sphere for Christian truth or praxis» without bringing tyranny with it.

That Graham aligns himself with this anti-gay position marks him as a supporter not only of bigotry, but oppression and tyranny as well.

Religious groups can help satisfy the universal need for experiences of transcendence, providing vacations from the burden of finitude (the sense of being caught in nature with its sickness and death), and the tyranny of time.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions; and, thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, can not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.3

Consequently, the world that was meant to be a great human family «with liberty and justice for all» is the scene not only of injustice, tyranny, and heartache, but of bitter strife that may engulf us all.

What I can be sure about however is the tyranny and number of despots that have burned books, regarding thinkers and those with an education as threats to be eliminated.

Evangelical fitness maven Stormie Omartian led the way (even while plugging her own diet and exercise plan) by addressing, in 1984 and again in 1993, the tyranny of contemporary body standards and noting that most dieters carry on a self - defeating battle with food and exercise that is «a prelude to the most intense feelings of failure.»

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

If the right to command is not coupled with recognition of liberty, then it is not authority that is being exercised but some form of tyranny.

Wilson and others entranced with the new system argued that it would be immune to the corruptions of the classical republics and that it would not suffer a collapse into tyranny.

Locke himself was all about, in the words of Ronald Bailey, not «submitting to the tyranny of Nature's lottery — which cruelly deals out futures blighted with ill health, stunted mental abilities, and early death.»

We can attempt to articulate this tacit understanding by suggesting that both camps are working with the inchoate idea that tyranny is present when a law or a governmental policy or a social practice in some way harms human beings by adversely affecting the developing course of their life.

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

We may not agree with what is expressed, but we should protect free speech no matter what the cost — anything less is bowing to tyranny.

I do not defend their actions but I can understand the initial motivations for wanting to throw off the tyranny of the Church which had ruled them for centuries with iron fists.

The exceptional situation of tyranny calling for an assassination attempt is not dealt with in a theoretical way by Bonhoeffer.

(6) A major problem with which we American Protestants have struggled has been the tyranny of the majority especially in local communities and states.

Manent shows in great detail the ineptitude that invariably follows when the church attempts to think politically, to do the work the nation and its statesmen are supposed to do — just as the nation engages in tyranny based on psychological reductionism when it tries to displace the universal message of the City of God with some ideology or civil theology.

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.

It led Luther to side with the princes against the peasants in the Peasants» Revolt, and modern Lutheranism in Germany to defer revolt against Nazi tyranny until it became clear that Hitler was usurping the place that belonged only to Christ.

Without a citizenry armed with weapons of military application, we lose our last deterrent to tyranny, and thus, we lose everything.

Who better than he knew what base things can come from the black depths of the human heart, dealing as he did with extortioners and prostitutes, the cruelty of the strong and the bigotry of the religious, and feeling over all the tyranny of a vast military empire?

The French Revolution replaced the absolute monarchy of France with a government just as absolutist and more bloody, which became the ancestor of all the bloody tyrannies of our era.

How many times, in reading the liturgy for the Holy Communion, I have felt both exultation and despair at the moment of the Sanctus: «Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore praising Thee, and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Saboath...» Exalted because, in this language, this place and time and company of momentary lives are interpreted and blessed within the scope of an eternal action of God, released from the tyranny of death and what Dylan Thomas has so movingly alluded to when he laments that

Tyranny with an empty belly and tyranny with a full belly are both Tyranny with an empty belly and tyranny with a full belly are both tyranny with a full belly are both tyrannytyranny

Robespierre did the same thing in the French Revolution with the result that France ended up not with freedom but terror, followed by the tyranny of Napoleon.

Armed with the arms of spirit and heart, the merciful weapons of peace: wisdom, justice and charity, we must stand united against the wanton weapons of war: tyranny, hatred and greed.