It is particularly relevant for the social class to which most of Confucius ' students belonged, because the only way for an ambitious young scholar to make his way in the Confucian Chinese world was to enter a ruler's civil service.

It is important to note that the distinction between samurai and non-samurai was so obscure that during the 16th century, most male adults in any social class ( even small farmers ) belonged to at least one military organization of their own and served in wars before and during Hideyoshi's rule.

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league but the Coens changed it to bowling in the movie because " it's a very social sport where you can sit around and drink and smoke while engaging in inane conversation ," Ethan said in an interview.

Officials who served in government belonged to the wider commoner social class and were ranked just below nobles in social prestige.

It also superseded the former conflict between royal legislative power and, particularly in the final years before the Revolution, protests by judges representing views and privileges of the social classes to which they belonged.

It was at once evident to Rivers that " the names applied to the various forms of blood relationship did not correspond to those used by Europeans, but belonged to what is known as a ' classificatory system '; a man's ' brothers ' or ' sisters ' might include individuals we should call cousins and the key to this nomenclature is to be found in forms of social organisation especially in varieties of the institution of marriage.

The classical theories suggest that Orosius belonged to a family with good social standing, which would have allowed him to gain a good education.

The house belonged to the McAulay family who played an important role in Mount Gilead business, church, social, and civic life.

His political supporters included many southern feudal landowners ( called beys, Turkish for " province chieftain ", the social group to which he belonged ) and noble families in the north, along with merchants, industrialists, and intellectuals.

His family had belonged to the Clapham Sect, the early 19th century group of mainly evangelical Christian social reformers.

On 26 September 1872, he proclaimed the future of the Republic to be in the hands of " a new social level " ( une couche sociale nouvelle ) ( Discours, III. 101 ), ostensibly the petite bourgeoisie to whom his father belonged.

Related but less important factors, are that a hapu may belong to more than one iwi, a particular hapu may have belonged to different iwi at different times, the tension caused by the social and economic power moving from the iwi down rather than from the hapu up, and the fact that many iwi do not recognise spouses and adoptees who do not have kinship links.

Although the Netherlands was a tolerant nation compared to neighboring states, wealth and social status belonged almost exclusively to Protestants.

As Evola states, " Opposite to the ' soldier ' was the type of the warrior and the member of the feudal aristocracy ; the caste to which this type belonged was the central nucleus in a corresponding social organization.

In March 2011 the leader of the Liberal Democrats, a social liberal and social democratic party, and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, stated that he believed that his party belonged to the radical center.

Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged.

I believed we were unjustly deprived of the social rights that belonged to us.

He was famous for writing historical and social ( reformist ) stories which propagated the socialist and rationalist ideals of the Dravidian movement to which he belonged.

Chamberlain was said to justify white supremacy by arguing that, in evolutionary terms, the Negro obviously belonged to an inferior social order.

These saints belonged to different social and religious backgrounds, including Hindus and Muslims, cobblers and untouchables.

The character of Sunga art changed because it served a different purpose and its donors belonged to different social classes.

He was influenced by the social and religious community around the local Wesleyan Methodist chapel, to which belonged Rosetta Sobey, who became his stepmother in 1922.

The members of The Memoir Club were not quite equivalent to those of Old Bloomsbury, however ; the club did not include Adrian Stephen, for example, or Sydney-Turner, who certainly belonged to Old Bloomsbury.

She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.

Pärson's athletics club is Fjällvinden, Tärnaby, the same to which skiing legend Ingemar Stenmark and Stig Strand belonged.

Another close friend esteemed by Mackintosh was Richard Sharp MP also known as Conversation Sharp and both men belonged to the famous Whig conversation club, the King of Clubs.

At Edinburgh Mackenzie belonged to a literary club, at the meetings of which papers in the manner of The Spectator were read.

Fabre served as president and secretary of the club of the Cordeliers, and belonged also to the Jacobin Club.

In his 1906 Reminiscences, Carl Schurz recalls the annual " bird shoot " pageant of the Rhenish town of Liblar which was sponsored by the Saint Sebastian Society, a club of sharpshooters and their sponsors to which nearly every adult member of town belonged.

Laval from then on belonged to the club of former ministers from which new ministers were drawn.

She belonged to no club and she was a member of nothing in the world.

In 1975, a prototype of the band, composed of Aoyama Gakuin University students who belonged to the popular music club " Better Days ", was formed by Keisuke Kuwata.

She was described by those who knew her as a quiet, self-conscious girl who belonged to her school's glee club and the local church choir.

Joe McCarthy, the manager of the Colonels and later his manager with the Yankees, knew what Combs could do and told him, " Look, if I didn't think you belonged in centerfield on this club, I wouldn't put you there.

Pete Thornton arrives on the scene with the police chief where after not getting much from the distraught Tony, interrogate Marcy's mother who can only tell Pete that her daughter belonged to a book club.

Pete continues to investigate this latest killing and also discovers that the latest murder victim also belonged to a book club too.

Probably its greatest players during the underarm era were the famous bowler Edward " Lumpy " Stevens and the wicket-keeper / batsman William Yalden, who both belonged to the Chertsey club.

The Black Widowers were based on a literary dining club Asimov belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders .< REF NAME =" Asimov1994-120 "> Asimov 1994, I. Asimov, chapter " 120.

Michaels addressed reunion issues in a Myspace blog citing the legal and logistic difficulties in getting the 4 members together for a reunion, as well as the fact that the band " never belonged in a big rock club in a one to two thousand seat joint.

: When a journalist from NHK Ōtsu Office was arrested in relation to an arson incident, the offices of the Shiga Prefecture Police kisha club to which he belonged were searched by the Shiga Prefecture Police.

During his time as a reporter with the Asahi Shimbun, Naoki Tanemura belonged to the club, and the fiction he wrote as a railway writer contained several names which were variations on the name " Tokiwa ".

Aristide gave the institution that belonged to his former club which by then was dissolved, the United Plate FV.

The numbers belonged to the owner and not the car, and the list of owners and their numbers was published monthly in the Revista Automobila magazine, edited by the Romanian Royal Automobile club.

Most gentlemen had only one club, which closely corresponded with the trade or social / political identity he felt most defined him, but a few people belonged to several.

After Pato took the number 9 jersey at Milan following the departure of club legend Filippo Inzaghi, Robinho was handed the number 7 jersey that previously belonged to Pato.