But at least there was a coherent stance behind it, viz. an absolutist rejection of force, whatever the consequences. |
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Indeed, it is an absolutist claim echoed in a leading article in the journal. |
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All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium. |
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I am suspicious of such absolutist pronouncements in so collaborative an artistic medium. |
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It complicates the way critics employ stereotype-centered criticism to produce absolutist, value-based judgments. |
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At the same time, rural interests often take an absolutist view of property rights. |
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The inner life of a nation is linked with the modern mass army in a way it could not have been with the absolutist armies of the earlier period. |
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Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings. |
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The absolutist, Joseph II, who succeeded Maria Theresa, failed in his reforms, though he stopped at nothing in his attempts to carry them out. |
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Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back. |
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Charles I was fighting for the divine right of kings, an absolutist faith which allowed neither compromise nor qualification. |
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Like all absolutist dogmas, this combination of axiom and corollaries appeals in its simplicity and directness. |
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They were territorial states governed by absolutist monarchs engaged in a struggle for security and survival. |
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Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution. |
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France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a repressive mercantilist economic policy regime. |
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I can sympathize with his absolutist view regarding capital punishment, as did many in the Cuban leadership. |
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In this and other cases, it was an absolutist sense of superiority that allowed such heinous acts. |
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We are dealing with an absolutist culture that demands total capitulation or nothing. |
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Prospero is an inherently unstable combination of Puritan reformer and absolutist ruler of the island. |
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If the absolutist wishes to maintain his objection, he must point to some morally relevant difference between positive and negative killing. |
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She is an absolutist, despising those opportunists who take time out of normal life for a little promiscuity. |
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What we get here is a monarchical absolutist who gradually discovers his humanity. |
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According to the absolutist, the parts of space are necessarily related to one another in an unchangeable order or arrangement. |
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The growth of royal power led to the development of an absolutist state at the end of the seventeenth century. |
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An absolutist account of individual rights leaves no opportunity to formulate more stringent policies for the procurement of organs. |
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The Saudis fear, probably rightly, that real power sharing is impossible in an absolutist state. |
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Taking an absolutist view on temporary cuts would rapidly make the whole pledge untenable. |
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We believe that a dogmatic, absolutist approach is risky and is unfair because, as we know full well, it does not apply in all sectors. |
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Professional politicians usually keep their distance from absolutist movements. |
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In fact, the world would probably have been divided between endlessly warring absolutist and tributary states without even the possibility of escape that capitalism provides. |
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To the absolutist mindset, breeching a principle is the same as abandoning it, and therefore any concession to differing views amounts to total surrender. |
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He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina. |
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I'm by no means any sort of information-wants-to-be-free absolutist. |
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It is also a serious blow to the unquestioning, absolutist dogma that has infected the debate about human rights. |
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The medieval game of thrones that is the absolutist Saudi system cannot endure. |
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What's missing is the anchoring of endangered species protection within the human and natural economy, rather than within absolutist, moral rhetoric. |
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Is the time of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the great absolutist monarchies and a strongly hierarchical society. |
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On gun rights, he is an absolutist, rejecting any qualification of the constitutional right to bear arms. Mr Cruz has spent years preparing. |
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It is a philosophical divide between a relativistic perspective and an absolutist perspective. |
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If one is a true relativist, why would he or she care if someone holds to an absolutist point of view? |
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Charles XI and his absolutist advisers knew the commoner Estates would recommend a full resumption of crown lands as the basis for budgetary reform. |
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Furthermore, the militia provided a link with the authorities at a time when government was hierarchical and absolutist. |
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From an absolutist point of view, the implication of non-state actors in public goods has always been seen as subordinate or with suspicion. |
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Han Fei's doctrine, however, challenges its absolutist premise out of its own mouth. |
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The beginning of the XIX century was unpeaceful and the rest of Spain lived the same situation The Independence war, the absolutist repression and the ' banololerismo ' restrain the village of peace. |
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Dissidents in these absolutist groups are outlawed, condescended to, pressured, bullied, lied about, trashed, slandered, and distorted out of any recognition. |
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To the extent that many models in the history of science have partaken of this somewhat absolutist character, science can be said to resemble myth. |
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Arbitrary, absolutist and base human conduct was liable to resurface even in peaceful and just societies in response to a chance crisis or threat or as a result of laxity in addressing violations of basic human rights. |
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After its foundation in 1869, it served as the pre-eminent shrine of state Shinto, a late 19th-century fusion of an ancient religion with modern absolutist government. |
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An absolutist is a person who believes that there are truths that can be known and on these truths the foundations of right and wrong within a society are built. |
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In his articles Havlí?ek was most critical of the Bach absolutist government of Austria-Hungary and was consequently in frequent trouble with the authorities. |
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As we are not absolutist, we consider that they may be accepted. |
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Encouraging signs of emancipation in Sudan and the Maghreb have been resisted by the old absolutist reflexes of control at all levels and mistrust at all times. |
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Furthermore, with regard to data retention, I am often dismayed at the way this House takes such an absolutist rather than a balanced approach to civil liberties. |
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As soon as we move out of the absolutist notion of poverty, we enter into the realm of social relations and the identification of standards of social norms and access to goods and services satisfying such standards. |
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Prior to the establishment of the United Nations, and with it an international system for the protection of human rights, the prevailing view of states of emergency was distinctly absolutist. |
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Thus, the feudal estate of Valle de Abdalajís was interrupted in 1812 in accordance with the decision of the Cortes de Cádiz government, only to be restored in 1814 with the arrival of Fernando VII's absolutist regime. |
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The dedicated absolutist is like a person who will love nothing but perfection, who does not believe in the existence in human life of anything perfect, and who quarrels with the world for not containing perfection. |
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He is trying to base his approach on an absolutist concept of sovereignty, contrary to that of shared sovereignty which is, in fact, a fundamental principle of the European Union. |
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If our flexibility is met by absolutist demands, then we will have no alternative to taking up absolutist positions ourselves and the negotiations will founder. |
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It is an absolutist proposition that aims to demolish Left Utopianism and cement Right Utopianism. |
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Beginning in the 15th century, this centralizing process gives rise to the absolutist state. |
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Since the absolutist period, states have largely been organized on a national basis. |
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The leading families saw their future in cooperation with the central government and worked to establish absolutist power. |
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The Prime Minister's absolutist views proved extremely unpopular, even within his own party. |
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Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink. |
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Some Enlightenment thinkers collaborated with Enlightened despots, absolutist rulers who attempted to forcibly impose some of the new ideas about government into practice. |
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During the Absolutist era, arms of nobility were granted by the King's herald, but this office was dissolved in 1849 when the absolutist era ended. |
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The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the example of the first Atlantic Revolutions generated criticism of the absolutist monarchy that ruled the country. |
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