Sentences with phrase «with dictatorial»

The game shows how the preacher Joseph Seed and his cult The Project at Eden's Gate are dominating the local people in Hope County with their dictatorial rule.

They are Bella's boss, a librarian with a dictatorial streak, and an eccentric young library patron doing architectural research.

However, by humanizing psychopathic behavior, The Act of Killing is unparalleled in its unsettling perspective on the dementias associated with dictatorial extremes.

Frank MacKay, Chairman of the Independence Party of New York alludes to the compromise of one's political integrity for the sake of aligning with dictatorial party bosses and their restrictive party platforms.

As leader of the Greater London Council, Ken became so inundated with enquiries resulting from the GLC Welfare Rights Project that he enforced, with dictatorial severity, a paper - recyclable dress code.

It is because we are unconvinced of the power of persuasive love that we want to invest God with dictatorial coercive power.

On the whole, they have been much more comfortable with the dictatorial image of God, an image that legitimates and preserves the status quo with all the built - in exclusivity that this implies.

Not exact matches

If God was dictatorial in his relationship with humans then these kinds of things wouldn't happen.

If I believe God was so dictatorial then I would believe that there would be no use for God to go with reliance on faith.

Ideally both groups are committed to peace and disarmament, but some Christians find it difficult to take a pacifist, nonviolent line because they are compassionately involved with liberation movements seeking to overthrow dictatorial governments.

Encyclopedia articles about Calvin feature a fairly predictable cluster of terms still associated with his name: strict, moralistic, legalistic, authoritarian, rigorous, rigid, severe, cold, logical, systematic, biblicist, theocratic, dictatorial and austere.

So insistent are the pressures that even peoples who are not yet prepared to assume the responsibilities of self - government claim their independence and then pay a heavy price in internal chaos and strife, with the likelihood of having to settle for order by dictatorial power rather than by consent.

The difficulties with «strongly religious» colleges even today, much less between 1870 and 1920, are sometimes buried in Marsden's notes, as when he admits that academic due process is often absent from such schools and «dictatorial rule is particularly common.»

At the age of 59, Bill Kepler is tall, trim and leathery, with a jaw like a hungry barracuda and the mildly dictatorial air of a sea captain.

The theory was that such a president would have no self - interest and let people get on with their lives without unnecessary interference by a narcissistic or dictatorial leader»

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

It seems in your dictatorial inclinations, you are much more interested in playing crude and selfish and sectional politics and trying to use manipulation of judicial processes to forcefully remove the current EC boss and replace her with your preferred choice.

This is in keeping with the new bottom - up management style that the speaker has adopted, part of the pledge he made to rank - and - file members who were anxious to break free of Silver's often dictatorial leadership.

He then became something of a controversial figure, with GOP chairs and operatives grousing about his dictatorial management style and — at least once — calling for his ouster.

Clive Francis, who plays the dictatorial army chief, Major Rice, is spectacularly unnerving — his thinly veiled racism adds to the atmosphere in his confrontations with the black people of the unnamed country.

Combining Gibbard's version and a remark made by Satterthwaite, a complete version of the theorem is: «Every deterministic voting system with at least 3 eligible candidates is either dictatorial or manipulable.»

But individually, state lawmakers from both parties are frustrated with Cuomo, who they view as mercurial at best and dictatorial at worst.

(With 1 voter, the system is obviously dictatorial.

It is public knowledge that Dasuki had served previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida but was against dictatorial regime of General Sani Abacha, before he sought asylum outside the country where he teamed up with other Nigerians in the Diaspora to campaign against that military dictatorship and entrenchment of democracy.

For a time, DeLay was the Republicans» chief vote counter and patronage dispenser, and he earned his nickname, «The Hammer,» for the dictatorial style with which he commanded House Republicans - and tormented President Bill Clinton and Democrats.

Now, these people I mentioned are credited with using their dictatorial powers to put in place strategies and firm systems that ensured, among others, policy consistency and the accelerated development of their countries, before transiting into western style democracies.

The President, Civil Liberties Organisation, Igho Akeregha, said, «The obstinate and dictatorial attitude of President Buhari suggests that he is yet to fully align with democratic ethos.

After a marital rift and a very bad day capped with a bake - sale meeting run by the dictatorial Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), Amy throws up her hands and cries uncle with the whole perfect - mom thing.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

The show started out hot this season, immediately picking up with Neil Gamby's hunt for his shooter, and giving us a hint of the dictatorial stylings of Lee Russell as Principal, which made the meandering nature of «The King» all the more disappointing.

When Alma becomes entwined with Reynolds, his needs prove dictatorial.

But what starts out with a bit of a freakshow vibe, bringing their household's bizarre rituals (their familial Halloween rite has to be seen to be believed) and alien assumptions to light, turns into a touching real - world drama, as they mature, rebel, escape their dictatorial father, emerge into the world, and reveal themselves as surprisingly well - adjusted and capable.

Woe be unto those with a critical mind because what, after all, is more dangerous to a dictatorial theocracy than a question?

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.

None of the professional / successful authors in such discussions were screaming about this, though some like me were shaking their heads with a disgusted sigh... both for Amazon and those who caused that company to take this excessive and (by the press release wording) dictatorial action.

In the world of Eric Schmidt, and by extension Google, sharing information is always a good thing — when it comes to toppling dictatorial regimes or being told we should be buying new trousers; if we share all our personal information with Google then Google will look after our lives.

A unique mountain retreat, originally built by a dictatorial Caid and carefully restored and run by an English company in cooperation with the local Berber community.

He falls in love with Princess Garnet who is on the run from her oppressive and dictatorial queen mother.

Joseph Seed is a preacher, who along with his cult The Project at Eden's Gate is running a dictatorial rule over Hope County.

As with last year, we've managed to amass a shortlist for each category and we've already determined our winners through a fair and dictatorial democratic process.

Advance Wars 2 is the sequel and follows the four helpfully colour - coded nations of the first game in doing battle with the villainous Black Hole, a dictatorial empire intent on taking over the world.

And that in turn alludes to the banning of those terms in education by a dictatorial regime in Argentina with something other than symbolic logic in mind.

In front of Joseph Beuys's Lightning With Stag in Its Glare, 1958 - 85, the artist's membership of the German Green party, and his interest in alternative forms of energy leads to mention of Azerbaijan, to BP's oil drainage of the country's natural resources and the impossibility of alternative energy research being undertaken under a present dictatorial rule that the corporation tacitly supports.

Conceptual and abstract art made in several Latin American countries from the late»50s onwards dealt not only with questions of abstraction and constructivism but also with deeper cultural issues such as colonialism, repressive and dictatorial governments and social inequality.

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Numerous presentations debunked with documentation what they called the pseudoscience and dictatorial intentions promoted by the UN, the European Union and the Obama administration.

I am sure you can make a living as a cartoonist with your misconceptions of how business works, but do not think we have to worry about Trump listening to those who have never been in a board room, never negotiated a business deal, and think that Business owners are Government dictatorial tyrants.

Similarly with environmental disaster — you might find it is a new incurable plague we face, or a crop disease, or an asteroid, or the rise of a new global dictatorial cult, or an invasion of vampire moths.

In his recent commentary published by The Hill on February 16, Green wrote: «When the Republican - controlled Congress moves forward with drafting comprehensive tax reform legislation to put on President Donald Trump «s desk, one item ought to be high on the list of provisions but probably isn't yet — repealing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)... It's time for the Trump administration and the bicameral GOP leadership to honor the party's pledge to get rid of this senseless, invasive, dictatorial, and costly burden.»

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)