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A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.
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The following passage from `` The Hangman's Great Hands '' illustrates the directness of this anger.
This passage from Ruxton's Life in the Far West illustrates the common use of the word in spoken form, " Travler, marm, this niggur's no travler ; I ar ' a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!
The terms that best render political opposites at the time were “ Oligarch ” and “ Democratic .” Politics as described by Lysias meant that “ no human being is by nature oligarchical or democratic, but whatever constitution brings advantage to an individual is the one he would like to see established .” This passage illustrates that whatever ideology a person chose to support is not based on their core beliefs or principles.
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The following passage from Isaac D ' Israeli ( 1766 – 1848 ), describing the period around 1230 CE, illustrates its use:
passage and division
NRA formed a legislative affairs division in response to debate concerning passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934.
On the other hand as expected Janus is present in region I of Martianus Capella's division of Heaven and in region XVI, the last one, are to be found the Ianitores terrestres ( along with Nocturnus ), perhaps to be identified in Forculus, Limentinus and Cardea, deities strictly related to Janus as his auxiliaries ( or perhaps even no more than concrete subdivisions of his functions ) as the meaning of their names implies: Forculus is the god of the forca, a iugum, low passage, Limentinus the guardian of the limes, boundary, Cardea the goddess of hinges, here of the gates separating Earth and Heaven.
Each shaft is large enough to permit the passage of an entire infantry division in one hour, though the tunnels are not wide enough for tanks or vehicles.
Each of the four divisions of the work is a " Tur ", so a particular passage may be cited as " Tur Orach Chayim, siman 22 ", meaning " Orach Chayim division, chapter 22 ".
Many Christians believe that the sword is a metaphor for ideological conflict and that Jesus is not advocating physical violence, especially since he talks of division in a family immediately after, and because in a parallel passage found in Luke 12: 51 virtually identical to it, the word " sword " is replaced with " division ".
These five-beamed notes also appear occasionally where a passage is to be performed rapidly, but where the actual tempo is at the discretion of the performer rather than being a strict division of the beat.
He was then appointed deputy-assistant quartermaster-general on the staff of Sir Hope Grant's Oudh division, and was engaged in all of the operations of the campaign, including the actions of Bari, Sarsi, Nawabganj, the capture of Faizabad, the passage of the Gumti and the action of Sultanpur.
Walter Burkert traces the model drawn from Atrahasis to a corresponding passage, the division by lots of the air, underworld and sea among Zeus, Hades and Poseidon in the Iliad, in which “ a resetting through which the foreign framework still shows ”.
The court was created by Congress with passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, which merged the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the appellate division of the United States Court of Claims, making the judges of the former courts into circuit judges.
The basis of discussion is furnished chiefly by the above-quoted passage from Cicero, and by the common division of the work of Tacitus into Annales and Historiae.
After the passage of the Selective Service Act of 1917, Baldwin called for the AUAM to create a legal division to protect the rights of conscientious objectors.
From west to east along the Guadalquivir, Castaños with 14, 000 men in two divisions ( La Peña and Jones ) approached Dupont at Andujar, Coupigny advanced his division to Villa Nueva, and Reding prepared to force a passage at Mengibar and swing north to Bailén, outflanking the French and cutting Dupont's line of retreat to the mountains.
In an attempt to protect his men while they were crossing the river, Marmaduke set up a rear guard along the ridge that he hoped would protect his engineers and pioneers as they constructed a bridge strong enough to allow the passage of his entire division.
Upon passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, the CCPA and the appellate division of the Court of Claims were merged into the new Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ( CAFC ), and six judges from the CCPA, including Judge Rich, were transferred to the CAFC.
passage and Islamic
This passage from Pirqei R. Eliezer, a writing which was composed in Israel after the Islamic conquest, is paralleled in an Arabic text of approximately the same period but gives some noticeably different information.
A passage linking northern Jerusalem to Islamic and Christian holy sites would be annexed by the Palestinian state.
Collectively the concept of eight side chambers not only offers passage for circumambulation of the main cenotaph, a practice common in Sufism and also visible in many Mughal imperial mausoleums, it also the reflect the concept of Paradise in Islamic cosmology.
passage and society
Only in civil society, can man be ennobled — through the use of reason: The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.
After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament, the group saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
" The passage to postindustrial society takes place when investment results in the production of symbolic goods that modify values, needs, representations, far more than in the production of material goods or even of ' services '.
Aiming at a society that shall be " an average drawn upon zeroes ," he knows exactly why he corrupts Peter Keating, and explains his methods to the ruined young man in a passage that is a pyrotechnical display of the fascist mind at its best and its worst ; the use of the ideal of altruism to destroy personal integrity, the use of humor and tolerance to destroy all standards, the use of sacrifice to enslave.
Initiation is a rite of passage ceremony marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
He deal with racial relationships between blacks and whites, and the passage for blacks trying to achieve success in the larger society.
In 1686 Plot's " Natural History of Staffordshire " contains a passage about persons of quality being admitted to the society of free-masons, whose history Plot finds invented and ridiculous.
It included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world, and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
Blaikie spoke against a bill that proposed the return of capital punishment in 1987, saying that its passage would mark " a step toward not a less violent society, but a more violent society ".
Kuksu included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
Finally, he returned to India convinced that he central problem of human society was inequality of wealth, property, rank, culture and opportunities and the passage of time never obscured it ’.
It is this essential courtesy that makes possible life in society: ' the false self acts to allow smooth passage through the world by inducing appropriate and socially acceptable ways of expressing love and hate '.
This included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
The Kuksu religion ( dubbed the Kuksu Cult by early historians ) included a cycle of elaborate dancing ceremonies, each with its own group of actors and distinctive feather-decorated regalia, an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world, and, in some areas, an annual mourning ceremony.
With the passage of time, in today's globalized society it is easy to use the media and the internet to spread the knowledge of the content of declarations and commitments made at international conferences.
Campbell defines the function of a mythology as the provision of a cultural framework for a society or people to educate their young, and to provide them with a means of coping with their passage through the different stages of life from birth to death.
It is of course true that the ancient rites of passage, such as circumcision, are no longer practiced in American society, but the consideration of their replacement by the Jewish celebration of Bar Mitzvah or college graduation ceremonies could, and perhaps should, be made.
In the passage above, Clarke describes the Central Computer that maintains Diaspar in an unchanging state, and refers to the end of all evolution and the apparent creation of a perfect society.
This society also funded the publication of his 1770 account of the Venus passage Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum Solis die 3.
Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the dérive as " a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances.
Edvard Radzinsky noted that Joseph Stalin wrote a nota bene: " Terror is the quickest way to new society " beside the following passage in a book by Marx: " There is only one way to shorten and ease the convulsions of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new — revolutionary terror.
Cudjoe thinks the novel depicts " the gradual darkening of African society as it returns to its age-old condition of bush and blood " and thinks this pessimistic view indicates Naipaul's " inability to examine postcolonial societies in any depth " The novel examines " the homeless condition of the East Indian in a world he cannot call home " and shows in Salim's case his passage to free himself from " the constricting ties to his society's past ".
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