It seems to me that N.C., in his editorial `` Confrontation '' ( SR, Mar. 25 ), has hit upon the real problem that bothers all of us in a complex world: how do we retain our personal relationship with those who suffer??

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An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

BDSM is a preference and sometimes form of personal relationship centering around activities that are erotic but may not be sexual, and which may include the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role play.

More specifically in regards to the Mets, critics point out that with Selig's personal relationship with Wilpon has allowed him to stall any possible removal of Wilpon as that club's principal owner.

Individuals who profess to be born again often state that they have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Sato explained that the continued recognition of Japan towards the Nationalist government was due largely to the personal relationship that various members of the Japanese government felt towards Chiang.

This relationship was rooted largely in the generous and lenient treatment of Japanese POWs by the Nationalist government in the years immediately following the Japanese surrender in 1945, and was felt especially strongly as a bond of personal obligation by the most senior members then in power .< ref name =" Journal1 "> Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

* Christian revivalist movements, such as Pietism or Methodism, which taught that a more personal relationship with a deity was possible

Some modern deists have modified this classical view and believe that humanity's relationship with God is transpersonal, which means that God transcends the personal / impersonal duality and moves beyond such human terms.

These religious also struggled for a deeply personal, intimate relationship with God.

English Dominican mysticism in the late medieval period differed from European strands of it in that, whereas European Dominican mysticism tended to concentrate on ecstatic experiences of union with the divine, English Dominican mysticism's ultimate focus was on a crucial dynamic in one's personal relationship with God.

Care of diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases necessitates understanding the patient at the personal and social level as well as the molecular, and the physician – patient relationship can be an important therapeutic process.

The personal relationship between the two men, however, became strained, due to Scheler's legal troubles, and Scheler returned to Munich.

Munch admitted to the personal goals of his work but he also offered his art to a wider purpose, " My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life — it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.

He also gleaned there the importance of a personal relationship with God but eschewed the harsh rules and strict methods of the religious brothers and educators.

Flirting can indicate an interest in a deeper personal relationship with another person.

Knowledge thus plays an important role in relation to theosis ( deification / personal relationship with God ) and theoria ( revelation of the divine, vision of God ).

He developed a new focus: expressing one's personal feelings in the relationship with God as well as the simple worship seen in older hymns.

" The film holds a rare niche in Hollywood history as having been completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited with new, juiced up scenes added to better exploit the box office chemistry that shined between Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and the notoriety of their personal relationship.

Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife.

But, as a member of an organization, that individual makes decisions not in relationship to personal needs and results, but in an impersonal sense as part of the organizational intent, purpose, and effect.

Some people who are in a relationship but want to hide homosexual or heterosexual activity from their partner, may solicit consensual sexual activity with others through personal contacts, online chat rooms, or, advertising in select media.

While Harry's personal relationships have not been followed as much as those of his brother, most media attention has been focused on his relationship with Chelsy Davy.

The court ruled in Carpenter: " It is well established, as a general proposition, that a person who acquires special knowledge or information by virtue of a confidential or fiduciary relationship with another is not free to exploit that knowledge or information for his own personal benefit but must account to his principal for any profits derived therefrom.

To raise the dancer out of his personal, pedestrian self, Mr. Nikolais has experimented with relating him to a larger, environmental orbit.

He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.

We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

Steele lost his seat in Parliament, and his personal quarrel with Swift, by now a public issue, thus reached its climax.

but there is much here also which bears directly on his personal quarrel with Swift.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;

Solomon Asch shows the transcultural stability of metaphors based on sensation ( hot, sweet, bitter, etc. ) dealing with personal qualities of human beings and events.

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

His personal familiarity with the scenes of action undoubtedly contributed much to the final result, but familiarity alone would not have been enough without other qualities.

The Prince's perceptions were quick and his energy monstrous, but these qualities were sapped by an Oriental lethargy and a policy of letting nothing interfere with personal passions.

he has experimented instead with personal myth-making.

'' At other points in his narrative, Krim associates Jewishness with unappeasable literary ambition, with abstraction, with his personal turning aside from the good, the true, and the beautiful of fiction in the manner of James T. Farrell to the international, the false, and the inflated.

El Benefactor's vanity grew with his personal wealth.

The New York dancers are highly eclectic, varying the pattern with all kinds of personal improvisations, back bends or floor crawls.

Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.