It was almost automatic, a reflex, and why wouldn't it be, for the powerful and increasingly militaristic Indian state is well rehearsed in dealing with the oppressed and weak of Kashmir.
This can be powerful, in a fake way, like being the militaristic dictator of your own sex nation.
Tensions greatly increased between the major powers with both sides becoming more militaristic.
With its sequence of prayer and march, this music is a powerful Wagner prototype, combining the rapt introspection of a penitent with the militaristic strut of an army.
Paul's challenge to Obama's executive authority to order drone killings on U.S. soil represents a threat to the Republican Party's monopoly on manliness -- and hence part of its grip on millions of white male voters -- for one simple but powerful reason: it shows that (white) men can adopt an anti-militaristic stance and not be dismissed as passive and weak.
A view that limits the future to a Western high-tech, white, heterosexual, patriarchal, militaristic, dark blandness where a small number of the rich and powerful men are in control; it is a view that misses out on the lushness of human and biological diversity and the joyful messiness of plurality and truly democratic systems of shared power.
Depicting a disturbingly militaristic world where weapons have become icons, it's strange, disquieting and powerful piece of work.
In Mesoamerica, the Aztec empire promoted a militaristic state ideology and developed extensive trade networks to secure valued materials, including obsidian and exotic and symbolically powerful materials such as the shimmering, iridescent feathers of the quetzal bird.
He sounds oddly militaristic?
My militaristic background.
