The Tyranny of Political Economy

The Tyranny of King Cotton

The whole ghastly tyranny of childhood repeats itself!

With our love for Syria and optimism for tomorrow, we will overcome the tyranny of oppression.

At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority.

The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense.

The tyranny of pragmatism seems to mark all of the complex dilemmas of our time.

There is no protection for non Albanian communities from being out voted.

And basically you can look at this, you know, as a tyranny of the remembering self, and you can think of the remembering self sort of dragging the experiencing self through experiences that the experiencing self doesn't need.

The Kim family s tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.

Gradually, she will have her own little library in her room and will learn how to respect books and appreciate them.

With corruption debate taking over the press, the government manages to sideline sensitive discussion on political infighting.

By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.

The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.

Too often, this tyranny of haste works against responsiveness to the different needs of specific segments of the affected population, reducing the likelihood that opportunities for change, risk reduction and sustainable development will be grasped.

Chances are it's not because they are inadequate, but because we come from a place of inner lack, and we ourselves live under the tyranny of a severe inner critic.

I have heard where many of the best respect in Rome, except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus and groaning underneath this age's yoke, have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes.

At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority. But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.

We are still waiting for a new vision, which will lead to progress, but this time, we hope, without tyranny.

Being overwhelmed is the first step if you are serious about trying to get at things that really matter, on a scale that makes a difference.

It is thanks to him that Poles can be proud that theirs was the first Soviet Bloc country to free itself of Communist tyranny.

Darius Cheung, founder of property listing website 99.co, wrote about how his search for an apartment made him realize the prevalence of racism in Singapore.

The Philippine economy is ruled no longer by the tyranny of excessive regulation or of corporate monopoly but by the invigorating regime of market forces and free competition.

That may be better than Saddam Hussein s tyranny of the minority, but it is hardly modern democracy.

The preponderance of small sized economies and the creation of economic space for investors and entrepreneurs remain an important challenge in attracting large flows of foreign direct investment (FDI).

In Libya, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi s appalling tyranny has collapsed the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.

Activists from public movements, journalists, ecologists, businessmen, and ordinary people who had suffered the tyranny and corruption of public officials began to join in.

The domination of liberal norms in international politics dislocates the anarchical social construction of the world and enables emerging social construction based on a more cooperative, problem solving civil society.

Those decisions, in order to be rational, require an analysis guided by a perspective of more than one or two years in order to avoid the tyranny of the short term view dictated by budgetary requirements.

The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense things that people think, Well, it can't be done any other way because that's the way it's done.

American government and politics have always experienced such episodes, and, though overshadowed by current melodramas, they were sometimes worse than today s.

Head banging or screaming can, for example, be misinterpreted as being part of the intellectual disability rather than an expression of discomfort or depression a phenomenon known as diagnostic overshadowing.

Instead, it wrought for France and much of Europe Jacobin terror, right wing counter terror, decades of war, and eventually Napoleonic tyranny.

2 To disseminate useful results based on field experience, UNSO prepared two, more technical publications, the first on quot Reforestation the Ethiopian Experience, 1984 1989 quot and the other on quot Sand Encroachment in Mauritania quot .

By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.

What they produced instead was an electocracy that, in the absence of liberal institutions, replaced the tyranny of the Sunni minority with a tyranny of the Shiite majority and a religious sectarian civil war.

We will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies and open markets, because tyranny is no match for liberty.And we will safeguard America's own security against those who threaten our citizens, our friends, and our interests.

The right of citizens to organize militias to fight government tyranny was therefore a founding idea of the new country, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which declares that, because a country needs a well regulated militia, the people have the right to bear arms.

Should we regress to the system of spheres of influence which has led to so many wars over the last two hundred years? These questions have still not been adequately answered.

His place in the history books is guaranteed. It is thanks to him that Poles can be proud that theirs was the first Soviet Bloc country to free itself of Communist tyranny.

What will happen tomorrow, we don t know, but we have noticed that whenever we think there are no resources left, we find something else that can be eaten.

The third preambular paragraph of that resolution referred to the international character of the Organization and stated that in order to avoid undue predominance of national practices, the policies and administrative methods of the Secretariat should reflect and profit to the highest degree from assets of the various cultures and the technical competence of all Member nations.

Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability scholar and activist, has described such treatments as tyranny of the normal, aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.

In his Newsweek columns published between 1966 and 1983, and in his books Capitalism and Freedom , Free to Choose , and The Tyranny of the Status Quo (written with his wife, Rose), Friedman offered a vision of liberty that was both appealing and achievable.