(n.) A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(3) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(4) After the collapse of communism, industrial production migrated to Asia, and China in particular.
(5) Fresh flowers have been placed on the grave of the exiled Polish prime minister Władysław Sikorski, buried in the town after he died in an air crash in Gilbratar in 1943.His remains were removed to Poland in 1993 after the fall of communism.
(6) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(7) As a political idea it is at least as old as Eduard Bernstein's bid in the last decade of the 19th century to detach the German Social Democrats from marxian communism by taking the parliamentary road.
(8) Some former communist countries, known in the jargon as "countries in transition", were allowed to chose a different date because after the collapse of communism many closed heavy industries.
(9) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
(10) Romney arrived on Monday in Gdansk, Solidarity's birthplace, where Soviet communism was punctured 32 years ago.
(11) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(12) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
(13) In Uncommon Danger, the representatives of communism and what Zaleshoff calls "moderate radicalism" but Kenton himself would probably think of as basic human decency are pitted against the agents of capital and fascism: Balterghen, Saridza and their many cronies.
(14) Poland remains one of Europe’s most staunchly Catholic nations, although the clergy’s influence has been steadily eroded by more than two decades of democratisation and market reforms since the 1989 fall of communism.
(15) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.
(16) Silicon Valley’s flavor is, of course, thoroughly technological, embracing tech advances to achieve abundance in a manner that bears some resemblance to “ fully automated luxury communism ”.
(17) So pervasive and persistent was the regime’s reach that a law to open Albania’s secret police files was passed only this year, nearly 25 years after the fall of communism.
(18) Members of the leftwing group Plan C deploy the slogan “Luxury for all” in their agitations, and a sharply-designed Tumblr, Luxury Communism , trumpets sympathetic ideas.
(19) As a recently published biography reveals , the archbishop's globetrotting adventures began in 1981 when he and his wife, Caroline, joined the Eastern European Bible Mission and embarked on a trip to help Christians persecuted under communism.
(20) The west has long since given up its cold war rhetoric against Communism.
Monarchy
Definition:
(n.) A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
(n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
(n.) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) The once squeaky-clean Spanish royal family has become immersed in a growing fraud scandal that reveals how members of King Juan Carlos's family may have cashed in on the monarchy's good name.
(3) This ad hoc response to a moment of crisis was buttressed by successive laws that, in order to exclude a Stuart succession, enmeshed monarchy with the Church of England, thus fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.
(4) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
(5) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(6) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
(7) Opposition demands – supported by youth groups, civil society organisations and Islamists – are for changes within the framework of the Hashemite monarchy.
(8) Rajab, no fan of monarchies, says Jordan and Morocco have done better than his own country in responding to popular demands for change.
(9) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(10) Saudi Arabia, by contrast, has no popular vote and its leadership has long been a heriditary monarchy which controls nearly all aspects of the state.
(11) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(12) Donald Trump tweets support for blockade imposed on Qatar Read more Trump started the day by taking sides in a bitter row among the Gulf monarchies, in which Saudi Arabia and its allies have sought to isolate Qatar .
(13) Sensitivity over criticism of the monarchy has increased in recent years as the poor health of the country's 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has raised concerns about a smooth succession.
(14) Salmond will also set out his belief that Scotland's independence will not threaten other parts of the UK but lead to a more mature relationship between equals, leading to a "social union" between Scotland and England, sharing a currency, monarchy and other institutions.
(15) Felipe sought on Thursday to disentangle the monarchy from controversy.
(16) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(17) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(18) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
(19) But the top choice among big-ticket items is voting reform: fully 50% say this is the top priority, compared with just 19% for a new constitution, less than 6% for electing the Lords, and just 3% for abolishing the monarchy.
(20) We are involved in modernising the British monarchy.