His leftism was always patriotic rather than internationalist — he sought a secular, rational form of French life.

Enlightened classicism emerged, which sought to apply the principles of rational science to all aspects of daily life.

Hunter, unlike his contemporaries … sought the reason for each phenomenon ), but because it afforded him the opportunity, given his empirical rather than rational bent, to study his main interest-life, in all its forms.

An alternative criticism has come from certain branches of New institutionalism who have sought to explain the increase in ICBs not by the ' rational ' argument outlined above, but as a process of symbolism, where governments will create ICBs because they are seen to be respectable institutions by other actors, particularly by foreign investors who, it is argued, will view a country with an ICB as a modern state worthy of investment.

The work is as much an apologia for the legal system of the time as it is an explanation ; even when the law was obscure, Blackstone sought to make it seem rational, just, and inevitable that things should be how they were.

Seeking to reconcile his thought with this earlier age, Herder sought to harmonize his conception of sentiment with reason, whereby all knowledge is implicit in the soul ; the most elementary stage is sensuous and intuitive perception which by development can become self-conscious and rational.

On one hand some of the scholars such as Jamal-ad-Din Asadabadi and Muhammad Abduh sought to find rational principles which would establish a form of thought which is both distinctively Islamic and also appropriate for life in modern scientific societies, a debate which is continuing within Islamic philosophy today.

Post-war French governments, from whichever political side, generally sought rational, efficient economic development, with the long-term goal of matching the highly-developed and technologically-advanced economy of the United States.

He sought to move beyond simple deism ( often described as Voltairean by its adherents ) to a new and, in his view, more rational devotion to the godhead.

Originally, most of the Elders sought to take severe measures, including expelling all ronin from the city, but they were eventually convinced by Abe Tadaaki to take a more rational tack.

In Medieval Kabbalah of the Zohar, which received its full rational synthesis in 16th-century Cordoveran Kabbalah, immediately before the new teachings of Luria, Gilgul was not the focus as intellectual categorisation was sought.

According to Judge John G. Koeltl, in denying Stewart's motion to reject the verdict as unfounded, A rational jury could have inferred that, by relaying a statement withdrawing support for a cessation of violence by an influential, pro-violence leader of a terrorist group, Stewart knew that she was providing support to those within the IG ( Islamic Group ) who sought to return to violence — who the jury could have found were participants in the Count Two conspiracy, particularly Taha.

The latter permits the State to classify persons for legitimate purposes, provided there is a reasonable basis for the same, meaning that the classification is required to be non-arbitrary, based on a method of intelligible differentiation among those sought to be classified, as well as have a rational relation to the object sought to be achieved by the classification.

Addey ’ s most important contribution to modern astrology was the Harmonic theory, which sought to put the understanding of astrological effects on a clear and rational footing.

Some others adopted a militant approach that sought to overthrow British rule by armed struggle ; revolutionary activities against the British rule took place throughout the Indian sub-continent.

* Differences in culture and vision: Microsoft favored the open hardware system approach that contributed to its success on the PC ; IBM sought to use OS / 2 to drive sales of its own hardware, including systems that could not support the features Microsoft wanted.

Contrary to the behaviouralist approach to understanding the elements of cognitive processes, gestalt psychology sought to understand their organization as a whole, studying perception as a process of figure and ground.

As opposed to the approaches of psychical research, which generally sought qualitative evidence for paranormal phenomena, the experiments at Duke University proffered a quantitative, statistical approach using cards and dice.

He developed this conception further in several books, The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World-Conception ( 1886 ) and Goethe's Conception of the World ( 1897 ), particularly emphasizing the transformation in Goethe's approach from the physical sciences, where experiment played the primary role, to plant biology, where imagination was required to find the biological archetypes ( Urpflanze ), and postulated that Goethe had sought but been unable to fully find the further transformation in scientific thinking necessary to properly interpret and understand the animal kingdom.

The council sought to revive the central role of Scripture in the theological and devotional life of the Church, building upon the work of earlier popes in crafting a modern approach to Scriptural analysis and interpretation.

* The ( TP, " proletarian tendency "), led by Jaime Wheelock, reflected an orthodox Marxist approach that sought to organize urban workers.

Gibbs sought to convince other physicists of the convenience of the vectorial approach over the quaternionic calculus of William Rowan Hamilton, which was then in widespread use by British scientists.

Those following the political view would see the May 1968 uprisings as a logical outcome of the SI's dialectical approach: while savaging present day society, they sought a revolutionary society which would embody the positive tendencies of capitalist development.

Recognizing the drug trade as a threat to regional security, Toledo sought to create a common Andean approach to the drug war.

Unlike the New Right, one nation conservatism takes a pragmatic and non-ideological approach to politics and accepts the need for flexible policies ; one nation conservatives have often sought compromise with their ideological opponents for the sake of social stability.

With the compositional approach he took from the Third Symphony onward, Sibelius sought to overcome the distinction between symphony and tone poem to fuse their most basic principles — the symphony's traditional claims of weight, musical abstraction, gravitas and formal dialogue with seminal works of the past ; and the tone poem's structural innovation and spontaneity, identifiable poetic content and inventive sonority.

Post-processualist Daniel Miller believed that the positivist approach of the processualists, in holding that only that which could be sensed, tested and predicted was valid, only sought to produce technical knowledge that facilitated the oppression of ordinary people by elites.

Griffith sought to combine elements of Parnellism with the traditional separatist approach ; he saw himself not as a leader but as providing a strategy which a new leader might follow.

This compositional approach sought to intensify the narrative and accentuate the characters ' expression.

It was the main business approach of Ford and other car companies in the 1920s, who sought to minimize costs by integrating the production of cars and car parts as exemplified in the Ford River Rouge Complex.

Newcomers from Germany often sought to follow the same parliamentary-driven approach being employed by the Ferdinand Lassalle and fledgling Social Democratic Party of Germany, while longer term residents of America often tended to support a trade union orientation.

Hurd cultivated good relations with the United States under President George Bush Sr., and sought a more conciliatory approach to other members of the European Community, repairing relationships damaged during the increasingly Eurosceptic tone of Margaret Thatcher's final years.

On his approach, the two renegade legions repented and sought refuge in the future Alsace-Lorraine region on the left bank of the Rhine.

This approach is characteristic of virtually all major Korean thinkers, and has resulted in a distinct variation of Buddhism, which is called Tongbulgyo (" interpenetrated Buddhism "), a form that sought to harmonize all disputes ( a principle called hwajaeng or 和諍 ), by Korean scholars.

* To deal with a rash of incidents where users sought out flaws in the system in order to crash it, a novel approach was taken.

Emmanuel Levinas sought to distinguish his philosophical and Jewish writings ; nevertheless, some scholars are constructing Jewish ethics around his innovative and deeply-Jewish approach.

Mark Fettes, in Steps Towards an Ecology of Language ( 1996 ), sought " a theory of language ecology which can integrate naturalist and critical traditions "; and in An Ecological Approach to Language Renewal ( 1997 ), sought to approach a transformative ecology via a more active, perhaps designed, set of tools in language.

In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

Here briefly in this humble tribute I have sought for some simple and succinct summation that would define the immense service of this patriot to his country.

As a designer and manufacturer of textile production machinery, Leesona and other companies in its industry have sought to meet this challenge with new or improved equipment and methods that would increase production, yet maintain both quality and flexibility.

Pelham said Sunday night there was research being done on whether the `` quickie '' vote on the increase can be repealed outright or whether notice would have to first be given that reconsideration of the action would be sought.

When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

Revenge would later be sought and obtained by Fateh Khan's youngest brother, Dost Mohammad Khan.

He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

Italy sought to improve its position in Africa by conquering Ethiopia, which would join its two territories.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

It was during her performances in the carnival that Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who sought a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job.

For example, North Korean nationals, who would be arrested and deported from China upon discovery, have sought sanctuary at various third-country embassies in China.

Dominic sought to establish a new kind of order, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders like the Benedictines to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

Elizabeth therefore sought a Protestant solution that would not offend Catholics too greatly while addressing the desires of English Protestants ; she would not tolerate the more radical Puritans though, who were pushing for far-reaching reforms.

Ephrem asserts that Christ's unity of humanity and divinity represents peace, perfection and salvation ; in contrast, docetism and other heresies sought to divide or reduce Christ's nature, and in doing so would rend and devalue Christ's followers with their false teachings.

Though Fascism adopted a number of positions designed to appeal to reactionaries, the Fascists sought to maintain Fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying " Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will by being revolutionary.

Chapter 5 deals with a visit to Jerusalem, and chapter 7 opens with Jesus again in Galilee since " he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him " — a consequence of the incident in Jerusalem described in chapter 5.

On the eastern front, the Turks continued to loom large as a threat, although war would mean further compromises with the Protestant princes, and so the Emperor sought to avoid that.

It also meant that, in battle, a phalanx would tend to drift to the right ( as hoplites sought to remain behind the shield of their neighbour ).

Numerous times, he and Engels expressed irritation with dilettante academics who sought to knock up their skimpy historical knowledge as quickly as possible into some grand theoretical system that would explain " everything " about history.

All trying to better position themselves in a way to acquire a higher status within the Company, which in turn, would carry more personal profit ; but sought after such goals in a meaningless ineffective lazy manner, mixed with a sense that they were all merely waiting, while trying to stay out of harm's way.