Devoid of law enforcement, the area became a hotbed of outlaws, pirates, and other nefarious characters for many years.

Devoid of any defensive talent save for goaltender Gilles Meloche, the Seals sank into last place again in 1973, where they would remain for the rest of their history.

Devoid of major industrial production, the district uses more funds for administration, development, and welfare works than it provides.

Devoid of any shred of gratitude for his protection, she has instead construed the events of the last few minutes to reaffirm her perception of Steve as a despicable, bullying, control freak, and decides it is time to stand up to him.

Devoid of love and light the world is a maze of confusion left by ' retreating ' faith.

Devoid of political connections, his daughter was viewed by the French as being free from the burden of international alliances.

# Devoid of any proved or accepted scientific basis, the evidence of the operator is hearsay which is inadmissible.

Devoid of any foreword, Kant directly names the countries and puts forward his observations about their capability of feeling.

Devoid as it is of any classical or allegorical trappings – Venus displays none of the attributes of the goddess she is supposed to represent – the painting is unapologetically erotic.

Devoid of all means of making a living and without his wife, who had stayed in Mainz with their children and her later husband Ludwig Ferdinand Huber, he remained in Paris.

Devoid of effective armoured forces in subsequent battles, Rommel was unable to decisively defeat the Eighth Army as it retreated into Egypt and his pursuit was brought to a halt at the First battle of El Alamein.

Starchild ’ s nemesis is Sir Nose D ’ Voidoffunk (" Sir Nose Devoid of Funk " from Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome, 1977 ).

Devoid of purpose, they become high-paid mercenaries.

Devoid of easy optimism, his stories are open-ended chronicles of abuse and resistance.

Devoid of academic training, Pinza was unable to sight-read a musical score.

Devoid of empathy and exploitative of cultural mores, he engineers a campaign of paranoid nationalism among the Centauri population to create distrust against his opponents in the Centarum, allowing him the clout to successfully plan a coup d ' état against the emperor.

Featuring members of Los Crudos, Hail Mary, Devoid of Faith, and Kill the Man Who Questions, the band plays short, fast hardcore music, and covers themes concerning the gay community in their live performances and lyrics.

V. On the Intellect Devoid of Reason

Devoid of proper education, Ren is initially diglossic and needy, but through curiosity and friends, becomes well versed in language and customs, even becoming admitted to Koharu High.

Devoid of much of its support and left in a precarious financial state, McLaughlin was forced to wind up the BM in 1983.

In this book, he expounded and enhanced his humanistic view on sexual ethics and morality and dedicated a chapter on homosexuality to giving homosexuals advice and suggestion on how to more greatly enjoy and enhance their sexual love lives.

Traditionally, in this life stage, the brahmachāri student went to live, often in the forests, with a spiritual teacher under whom he practiced a life of strict celibacy, morality and continence dedicated to learning all aspects of dharma that is the " principles righteous living ".

Instead, he hypothesised a dedicated " sixth sense " to explain morality.

Anthony Comstock ( March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915 ) was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality.

In 1873, Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public.

Jam finally stands up for himself, getting revenge at his mother for her controlling and domineering ways by yelling at her before the assembled crowd, telling her that forcing religion and morality down his throat are the reasons that he has been rebelling lately, that she has been so blindsided by her fanaticism she's forgotten what's really important, making her a lousy parent.

Physicist Sean Carroll believes that conceiving of morality as a science could be a case of Scientific imperialism and insists that what is " good for conscious creatures " is not an adequate working definition of " moral ".

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

Such could be said of morality and the basic theory applied to other seemingly ineffective positive actions.

They argued even further that morality or immorality of any action could not be judged outside of the cultural context within which it occurred.

" Pauline Kael, he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus appreciate how a film such as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo ( 1961 ) " could exploit Western conventions while debunking its morality.

However, his controversial beliefs that religion and morality could be explained in terms purely of social interaction earned him many critics.

He proposed that morality itself could be a danger.

They wrote to the theatre, assuring them that the censor's doubts about the morality of the work were not justified but since very little time was left, very little could be done.

Thus, there could be a synergy: compounding the inherent fallible nature of the process with the malleability of memory, the potential mendacity of witnesses, the showmanship and ' magic tricks ' involved in trials and advocacy, and the self interest, venality, morality, poor perception and recollection, and ethical standards of the participants.

During the reign of Shang Zhou, Heaven could not endure Zhou's morality and neglect of timely sacrifices.

A Notification of 14 June 1966 from the Congregation, which was published on the 15 June 1966 issue of the Vatican's newspaper, L ' Osservatore Romano, announced that, while the Index maintained its moral force, in that it taught Christians to beware, as required by the natural law itself, of those writings that could endanger faith and morality, it no longer had the force of ecclesiastical positive law with the associated penalties.

John Taylor points out the wording of Spells 30B and 125 suggests a pragmatic approach to morality ; by preventing the heart from contradicting him with any inconvenient truths, it seems that the deceased could enter the afterlife even if their life had not been entirely pure.

" But Barnum was confident that her reputation for morality and philanthropy could be turned to good use in his publicity.

Some of the significant achievements of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or " backing "; the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questions ( although which to apply it to is an ethical question ); the willingness to both accept and challenge authority within the same process ; recognition that science and philosophy are both subordinate to morality, and that moral choices are prior to any investigation or concern with either ; the separation of theology ( kalam ) and law ( shariah ) during the early Abbasid period, a precursor to secularism ; the distinction between religion and philosophy, marking the beginning of secular thought ; the beginning of a peer review process ; early ideas on evolution ; the beginnings of the scientific method, an important contribution to the philosophy of science ; the introduction of temporal modal logic and inductive logic ; the beginning of social philosophy, including the formulation of theories on social cohesion and social conflict ; the beginning of the philosophy of history ; the development of the philosophical novel and the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa ; and distinguishing between essence and existence.

Originally, Quark admired the Cardassian race for their version of morality, but later he seemed to take pity on the downtrodden Bajoran people, selling them food and equipment just above cost, which could have gotten him into serious trouble if the Cardassians had found out.

Wallace believed natural selection could not explain intelligence or morality in the human being so suggested that non-material spiritual forces accounted for these.

Carpocratians believed they themselves could transcend the material realm, and therefore were no longer bound by Mosaic law, which was based on the material powers, or by any other morality, which, they held, was mere human opinion.

* " Objective morality must exist ; if it didn't, then it could be considered acceptable to commit atrocities.

This could be considered to be a flaw in the Golden Rule, one that is corrected by insisting, as Kant does, that actions must be universal to be moral and by insisting that morality cannot be merely a matter of preference or taste.

In common with others of his generation, including the members of Chapman's salon, he was possessed with the idea of demonstrating that it was possible to show that everything in the universe – including human culture, language, and morality – could be explained by laws of universal validity.

The challenges to traditional morality and religion brought by the Age of Enlightenment and the emancipatory politics of the French Revolution created an environment where such ideas could flourish.

He also contended that, as knowledge of God is required for morality by divine command theory, atheists and agnostics could not be moral ; he saw this as a weakness of the theory.

Equally, it could be argued that the questionable morality of the Cold War threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction again vindicated the FoR philosophy.

Sita Ram Goel described Swarup as a person who " had no use for any conventional morality or code of manners and could see clearly how they were mostly used to put the other fellow in the wrong.