Sentences with phrase «with feudal»

Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.

Upgrade your starfaring base of operations, negotiate mercenary contracts with feudal lords, repair, maintain, and customize your stable of aging BattleMechs, all in the service of executing devastating combat tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield.

Upgrade your starfaring base of operations, negotiate mercenary contracts with feudal lords, repair and maintain your stable of aging BattleMechs, and execute devastating combat tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield.»

With its feudal arenas, martial structures and panoramic cast of comrades, Fire Emblem, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems» foundational strategy series, is a more natural fit for musou's inflexible template.

Moreover, by modern standards, the charters were both extremely limited documents — overwhelmingly concerned with feudal administration, with little relevance to those living outside the context of medieval England.

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

(15) This work explores the impact of various historical developments: bishops as feudal princes; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; bourgeois religion; and the Council's final «break with its feudal past.

Not exact matches

Charles, he writes, «presides at the centre of a court with no place for democracy or dissenting views... like some feudal lord.»

Between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, homicide reduced drastically in societies, which sociologist Norbert Elias noted is best seen in European countries, in which there was «the consolidation of a patchwork of feudal territories into large kingdoms with centralized authority and an infrastructure of commerce,» Pinker said.

You can have economic malaise that others call mythical sec stag to describe a stagnant economy that mimics feudal society only with much higher standard of living.

Along with most other economists of his day, he expected rentier income and the ownership of land, natural resources and banking to be taken out of the hands of the hereditary aristocracies that had held them since Europe's feudal epoch.

Ford's novels often address the incidental attributes of English Catholicism, especially its connection with what Ker calls «feudal Toryism,» but the essential drama of faith remains out of view.

Feudal times witnessed sharp cleavages in society, with slaves and serfs and sweating toilers of lands.

That is easily observed for example in the period of transition from a feudal authoritative state and a society with a closed mental outlook, to a democratic, pluralist social order.

In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the past.

Now we are ruled with impunity by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded.

For the Japanese, still very conscious of important feudal families, use of these motifs suggests the association of biblical stories with important personages.

The Church adapted herself to the feudal way of life, with the parish church and the monasteries as focal points of communal life.

Here sovereignty might actually clash with sovereignty, as was the case of feudal Western Christianity and feudal Japanese and Tibetan Buddhism, the religious might clash with the secular.

In the Middle Ages a feudal system was developed which balanced rights and duties in a hierarchical family of men under God with the Church at the centre.

In the Middle Ages this depreciation of manual labor was blended with the class structure of feudal society and given a religious sanction.

Thus, in describing the history of Christianity, Mathews dealt not with the question of the metaphysical truth of various doctrines, but rather with the issue of the function of doctrine through a succession of dominant «social minds,» which he designated as the Semitic monarchical, the Hellenistic monarchical, the imperialistic, the feudal, the national, the bourgeois, and the scientific - democratic.

In sharp contrast to earlier tribal and feudal patterns, the bourgeois family made possible the freedom of a man and woman to choose each other, to live with their children in relative independence from wider kinship groups, and to form a bond in which obligation is reinforced by affection.

He must deal with the church, with the powers of a feudal society, and with the disciplines, temptations, and style of life of a monastic order, as he seeks heroically to have that order conform to the spirit of love.

Henry had earlier defended a relative version of Papal Authority, earning himself the honorific Defensor Fidei, within a somewhat feudal system, in which suzereinity came with responsibilities to ones vassals.

This may be fine for Protestants who believe that Catholicism simply perpetuates feudal ideas and superstitious belief, but it is not a very helpful point of view when trying to understand the French with sympathy.

Nation - states under monarchs with mounting power were bringing together areas formerly loosely bound together by feudal ties.

The El Salvadorans had become accustomed to paying with their blood and life in the feudal system of exploitation.

Have we replaced feudal nobles with corporations?

The horrors of two global conflicts led to the breakdown of the formerly dominant class system in the UK, which had evolved from the earlier feudal system, carrying with it expectations of behaviour and achievement so rigid for each class that most people were unable to break free of them.

It is the story of the disintegration of feudal society, the rise of nationalist movements and the inability of an empire to deal with the challenges of the modern world.

Magna Carta is often criticised for its preoccupation with the minutiae of feudal administration — with the immediate political priorities of its aristocratic champions.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

It is also illustrated in the long list of matters dedicated to the federal government in the exclusive legislative list and in the revenue allocation formula which gives 52 % of national revenue to an incompetent and remote federal government, which in effect operates as a feudal bureaucracy with an «emperor», «sheik» or «king» at its head!

Under the law, corporations, banks, insurance companies, brokerages and other businesses in New York are required to transfer abandoned money or securities to the state comptroller's Office of Unclaimed Funds under a process called escheatment (a word with origins in English feudal law).

Synopsis: Batman, along with his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.

Last week's Asian releases were filled with alternate timelines and reenactions of historical battles in feudal Japan.

The film version concerns itself with a group of pillaging feudal lords.

WHAT: In a dystopian future where the collapse of modern civilization has given way to a feudal society, seven rival barons — each with their own army of trained assassins — have divided control of an area known as the Badlands.

This brief recap brings us up to date with Nioh as it appears in its current form — A lovingly crafted homage to the precision combat and mechanics of the Soulsborne games, whilst also introducing an RNG loot system inspired by Diablo and Borderlands and transplanting the action from the more European fantasy aesthetic of Miyazaki's aforementioned series to a feudal Japan setting that is more than a little reminiscent of the Onimusha games.

Batman Ninja: The caped crusader takes a journey across the ages as Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine transports many of Batman's worst enemies to feudal Japan — along with the Dark Knight and a few of his allies.

Steeped in the feudal political intrigue of the BattleTech universe, the game will feature an open - ended Mercenaries - style campaign that blends RPG «Mech and MechWarrior management with modern turn - based tactics.

With co-scripter Dennis Empalmado, Lopez uses a dazzling animated sequence that posits his backstory in feudal Japan, 1602.

Batman Ninja is directed by Junpei Mizusaki with character design by Takashi Okazaki, and is about Batman defending a town in feudal Japan after being transported there by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.

Batman (Kôichi Yamadera), along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.

It made a big impact due to its setting in Feudal Japan and with players taking on the role of a samurai.

Tsugumo (Ebizo Ichikawa) this time around is clearly the avenging angel from the beginning — there is an expectation attached to this filmmaker and enough of a familiarity with the original (one presupposes) that the only point of a remake would be to not attack the hypocrisy of the feudal structure, but to challenge those expectations.

SYNOPSIS: Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.

Directed and written by Florian Gallenberger, «John Rabe» is lavishly mounted, with a strong portrayal of Rabe by Ulrich Tukur, the feudal baron in Michael Haneke ’s

The first thing that you notice about Samurai Warriors 4 is that the series finally feels like a next - gen title, especially with the lush FULL HD graphics as it returns gamers to the Warring States of feudal Japan.