| Early on, evolutionist ideas were challenged by more particularist and relativist notions of anthropology. |
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| Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed. |
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| Rifts are common and frequent, and continually being patched over or exploited by different would-be leaders seeking a panethnic or more particularist base. |
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| Thus the paradox emerges that the particularist element in Judaism proved the embryo of a theory of religious tolerance. |
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| He overpowered other territorial dukes who rebelled against his rule and reversed the particularist trend for a time. |
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| If it be granted that the nation is determined by the spontaneous element, the particularist nationalisms achieve an impregnable position. |
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| The way in which particularist reasoning is illustrated in historical stories such as those about Shun is also a distinctive feature of Confucian ethics. |
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| Europe needs a financial instrument that, aside from the funds arising from gross domestic product, is independent of the particularist interests of the Member States. |
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| A modern society is not only a society that is not traditional, that is not particularist, that is not defined by the privilege, that is not dominated by an oligarchy of aristocrats, robber barons or bureaucrats. |
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| This principle of gender-based and ethnic homogeneity and the organisation of the school overall are in keeping with a particularist approach to integration. |
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| It includes parties that appeal to modernist secular forms of social identity as well as parties that emphasise more particularist and patrimonial notions of community. |
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| The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege. |
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| Like two thousand years ago when they crucified Christ, both of these forces are at work in the world today: universal monotheism and quasi-polytheistic tribalism on the one hand, and particularist monotheism on the other. |
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| So Pettit's version of the distinction, and more generally the reason-statement-based version of the distinction, seems unlikely to offend against particularist sensibilities. |
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| Any particularist approach by small states must be relegated to the past. |
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| However, most American processualists ignored Childe's work, seeing him as particularist and irrelevant in their search for generalised laws of societal behaviour. |
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