Sentences with phrase «with oppressive regimes»

The platform also wants to expand its reach to countries that are being plagued by economic difficulty with oppressive regimes.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people of Panem in terms of whether they want to stay with the oppressive regime led by the Capitol and President Snow (Sutherland, Horrible Bosses), or whether they're going to join the revolution and fight for a new way of life.

The simplicity of the visuals helps universalize the story, which is filled with plenty of the usual travails of growing up (troubles with boys, clandestine parties, etc.), though always viewed in pointedly thumb - nosing contrast with the oppressive regime that wants to keep the populace — especially its women — in check.

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the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Massively fewer wars and oppressive regimes and torture, and they are much much better at living in harmony with other beliefs.

This is the same reason why companies as big as Google compromise their ideals just to appease oppressive regimes like China's or comply with demands that directly breach end user's privacy like the NSA's Prism program in the US.

Launched online in early 2007, Wikileaks is run by an informal group of open government and anti-secrecy advocates who want to allow people living under oppressive regimes, or with something to say in...

Black The Fall is an entertaining action game with puzzle solving that features a gloomy, somber background as the player has to escape an oppressive regime.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Persepolis (PG - 13 for sexual references, profanity, mature themes, violent images and brief drug use) Feminist animated adventure, set at the dawn of the Iranian revolution in the late seventies, chronicles the resistance to the oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime displayed by a defiant young girl (Chiara Mastroianni) followed from the age of 9 to 24.

Rarely does a film blend optimism and vision with social criticism quite as skilfully as this tale of young girls acting out under the oppression of an oppressive and vengeful regime.

The technology has already been credited with bringing down oppressive regimes and creating whole new ways of reporting breaking news.

This move was criticised by a number of human rights organisations due to the fact that there is an oppressive regime in Rwanda with a high record of human rights abuses.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

As the Third Reich rules the world by 1960 with an iron fist, extreme measures are called upon to fight back against the oppressive regime.

Any talk with Fraser is an exciting one — she is known to be opinionated — but this one, which focuses on strategies that artists can use for resisting oppressive political regimes, seems particularly promising.

León Ferrari illustrates the global nature of the exhibition with his La Jaula (The Cage)(1979), which he created while in exile from an oppressive regime in his native Argentina.

We were also near the end of the oppressive Bush regime, of dealing with a president that really didn't acknowledge climate change — so it was like you could see the light at the end of the tunnel; it was a building moment.

So yeah, whatever oppressive regime ends up in charge is fine as long as we can keep communicating with each other in an impersonal way.

Romania, with its history of oppressive regimes and bleak orphanages, is changing, especially at 26 Monumentuli St. in the village of Criscior.