(1) But Norwegians prefer serfdom to political influence.
(2) Romney has been looking and sounding like Vlad the Impaler for so long that all he had to do to exceed expectations was show up acting like someone who doesn't sleep in a crypt; strike a pose from the Ronald Reagan Compassionate Conservative playbook; spit out a few numbers; and seem puzzled by all of those, er, rumors about his plans to cut taxes for the rich and roll the rest of us back to serfdom.
(3) Last month, Lukashenko announced he intended to bring back “serfdom” to “teach the peasants to work more efficiently”.
(4) But here, for a moment, let's go back to the primary text, open our University of Chicago Press definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom and honestly read it in relation to the American healthcare debate.
(5) This is the true road to serfdom: disinventing democracy on behalf of the elite.
(6) Today Germany's political establishment seems committed to consigning German taxpayers to economic serfdom and stagflation for at least a generation – not for gold, to be fair, but for the euro, to assuage the markets and to appease international opinion.
(7) With vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan claiming that his ideas are inspired by Hayek and even handing out copies of The Road to Serfdom " to bring new staffers up to speed " – following the earlier highjacking of Hayek by Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh – it's time for some intellectual honesty.
(8) "In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing", he stressed in The Road to Serfdom (p88).
(9) Pushkin supported the 1825 Decembrist uprising that challenged the succession of Nicholas I. Gogol satirised the oppressions of serfdom before rapidly retreating.
(10) Few contemporary appraisals of seminal works manage to stay the distance, but, 50 years on, his reviews, for instance, of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Eliot's Notes towards the Definition of Culture stand up as well, if not better, than the books themselves.
(11) Tea without good governance is serfdom and only leads to environmental and social problems."
(12) On the diplomacy, the idea that other European countries would be ready to start a second negotiation is for the birds.” Wave goodbye to the EU and say hello to serfdom | Letters Read more Downing Street said that the white paper, titled The Best of Both Worlds – Our Special Status in a Reformed EU , illustrated the impact of the welfare reforms that will curb access to in-work benefits for EU migrants.
(13) Surprisingly, those are the words of Friedrich Hayek, straight out of The Road to Serfdom.
(14) In 1944, towards the end of a war against a dictatorship, in The Road to Serfdom, Hayek wrote: “Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self government.” That remains true.
(15) China rejects the criticism, saying its rule has ended serfdom and brought development to a backward region.
(16) To quote Dunlop again, “the idea that collective human action and decision making could work for the common good [is] not only discredited, [it] is recast as evil, a slippery slope to totalitarianism, the road to serfdom.” On the other hand, the organisations that, throughout the 20th century, enabled some form of participatory democracy have been increasingly marginalised, if not totally destroyed.
(17) Is spending more than 40 per cent of GDP on government - a level identified as the portals of serfdom by the new right - to fall into old socialist habits?
Slavery
Definition:
(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
(n.) The holding of slaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(3) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
(4) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(5) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
(6) The report, based on testimonies and interviews with North Korean refugees in Seoul, London, Japan and Washington, compiled chilling evidences of crimes against humanity including forced starvation, torture, slavery and sexual violence .
(7) This summer’s shocking revelations about slavery in the Thai fishing industry , which supplies prawns to UK supermarkets, demonstrate that voluntary systems are failing to identify and eradicate these practices.
(8) David Denby in the New Yorker called it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
(9) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(10) Very odd.” When it came to working in the US, making 12 Years a Slave, McQueen was adamant that he wouldn’t let the same thing happen again, particularly not on a film about slavery, of all things.
(11) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(12) Human trafficking and slavery, particularly when children are the victims, not only deny fundamental human rights but also testify to an utter failure of our religions, cultures and civilisations.
(13) The New Yorker pronounced it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
(14) The TIP report offers a good starting point for establishing which products could be linked to slavery and human rights abuses.
(15) There is resentment that other historical French crimes, including slavery, are not given the same emphasis on the curriculum.
(16) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(17) Meanwhile the state is under pressure to do more against trafficking and sexual slavery.
(18) The NCA figures were published as the Home Office prepares to put its modern slavery bill to the Lords this year.
(19) However, human rights groups claim too little progress has been made on sweeping away the kafala system that bonds labourers to their employer and has been likened to modern slavery.
(20) By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same,” the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post , “Tubman became historic for essentially stealing ‘property’.