The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Events and political movements that contributed to Lebanon's violent implosion include, among others, the departure of European colonial powers, the emergence of Arab Nationalism, Arab Socialism in the context of the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Ba ' athism, the Iranian Revolution, Palestinian militants, Black September in Jordan, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Iran – Iraq War.

The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), which left much of the army in a state of mutiny.

Like many historians before him, he sets the Enlightenment within the context of the French Revolution to follow.

Although Wagner had shown virtually no sign of anti-Jewish prejudice previously ( despite the claims by Rose in his book Wagner, Race and Revolution, and others ), he was determined to build on Uhlig ’ s articles and prepare a broadside that would attack his artistic enemies, embedded in what he took to be a populist Judaeophobic context.

The Mountain ( French: La Montagne ) refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group, whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly.

Put in its historical context, the 14 July Revolution was the culmination of a series of uprisings and coup attempts that began with the 1936 Bakr Sidqi coup and included the 1941 Rashid Ali military movement, the 1948 Wathbah Uprising, and the 1952 and 1956 protests.

The 1789 Revolution transferred the supreme authority to the King ( in the context of the short-lived constitutional Monarchy ), then to the multi-member Comité de Salut Public during the Convention, and later to the Directoire, before being regained in the hands of Consul Napoléon Bonaparte, later Emperor Napoléon I, alone.

In " Art and Revolution " Wagner applies the term ' Gesamtkunstwerk ' in the context of Greek tragedy.

Those colleagues closest to Lin noted that Lin avoided talking about the Cultural Revolution in any context other than public speeches, and when pressed would only make very brief and ambiguous statements.

The show's focus was on political issues surrounding China's Cultural Revolution and also the contemporary political context.

Reading ideas of political culture through Habermas ' conception of the public sphere, historians of the Revolution in the past few decades have looked at the role and position of cultural themes such as gender, ritual, and ideology in the context of pre-revolutionary French political culture.

The American Revolution marked a departure in the concept of popular sovereignty as it had been discussed and employed in the European historical context.

In the world context of Atlantic revolutions, the Canadian reformers took their inspiration from the republicanism of the American Revolution.

" In this context, Britain's perfidy was political: in the early days of the French Revolution many in Britain, the most liberal European state, had looked upon the Revolution with mild favour, but following the overthrow and execution of Louis XVI, Britain had allied herself with the other monarchies of Europe against the Revolution in France.

" While this passage may have seemed far-fetched to some critics when Testimony first appeared, especially in the context of linking the symphony to the Hungarian Revolution, the concept of recurrence is reportedly one which has been central to Russian artists in the wake of that event and held tremendous significance among the intelligentsia in Russia.

This structure proved unsustainable in the context of the Second Industrial Revolution, in that a typical large conglomerate might have dozens of types of risks to insure against.

The Revolution brought the rise of the centralized nation state ( also referred to in a Spanish context as " unitarianism ", unrelated to the religion of the same name ).

His drama, Nie-boska Komedia ( The Un-Divine Comedy, 1835 ), portrays the tragedy of an old-world aristocracy defeated by a new order of communism and democracy, and is a poetic prophecy of class conflict and of Russia's October Revolution ( see also Okopy Świętej Trójcy ); and his drama, Irydion ( 1836 ), deals, in the context of Christian ethics, with the struggle of a subjugated nation against its oppressor.

Then the goddess appears in a number of guises: the moon, Mother Earth ( in the Randolph reference ), the Sibyl ( last encountered in the context of the American Revolution in Canto LXIV ), Isis and Kuanon.

They soon resumed in the context of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the Red Terror.

Such ethnographers and their students promoted the idea of " cultural relativism ", the view that one can only understand another person's beliefs and behaviors in the context of the culture in which he or she lived or lives.

Many of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes.

Thackeray has Rosalind using their as a polite circumlocution, perhaps avoiding the directness of she ... her, and generic his in a context involving only women ; or perhaps with Rosalind meaning the statement to apply to people in general with Becky Sharp as an example.

" Ono later issued a statement claiming she did not mean any offense, as her comment was an attempt to console her husband, not attack McCartney ; she went on to insist that she respected McCartney and that it was the press who had taken her comments out of context.

In one context, she is a goddess of prostitutes ; in another, she turns the hearts of men and women from sexual vice to virtue.

It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies ; but there was no reason to suppose that the right hon.

Marion Crawford explained, " Impulsive and bright remarks she made became headlines and, taken out of their context, began to produce in the public eye an oddly distorted personality that bore little resemblance to the Margaret we knew.

During the context of events told by The English Patient, she had been married to Geoffrey for only a year.

The cultural context within which a woman lives can have a significant impact on the way she experiences the menopausal transition.

The bassist, in a modal context, is not required to ' walk ' from one important chord tone to that of another in order to make each chord change sound, in the same way required in conventional bebop or hard bop compositions ; rather, he or she is free to improvise bass lines that may highlight or emphasize particular scale degrees within a specific mode ( e. g., a bass line that is constructed to highlight the 6th degree during a Dorian chord ).

It would have provided a specific theatrical context for Cleopatra's later reminiscence about another occasion on which she ' put my tires and mantles on him, whilst / I wore his sword Philippan ' ( II. v. 22-23 ).

In The Book of Lost Tales Nienna was named Fui or Qalmë-Tári and was married to Vefántur ( Mandos ), to whom she was not related in that context.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, as the Virgin Mary came to be known in this context, still underpins the faith of many Catholics in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and she is recognized as patron saint of all the Americas.

However, Northeast's principal, Mabel Haller, announced in Philadelphia that she ought to have some rights to censorship over the film, since parts of the film were taken out of context.

The word is applied as an epithet to Demeter in this context: Demeter Thesmophoros ; a relief at Eleusis illustrated in Kerenyi ( fig 7 ) shows the goddess sitting on the ground as she receives her votaries.

Before becoming a fully-fledged Watcher, he also worked as " the curator of a British museum, maybe the British Museum " as Willow says (" Welcome to the Hellmouth "), although, given the context, she may well have been repeating a rumor that was going around the school.

After reading the Wolfenden Report and aware of the context of several high-profile prosecutions against gay men, she became a keen supporter of homosexual law reform.

She claims that she is referring not only to racial minorities, but any numerical minority group, such as fundamentalist Christians, the Amish, or in states such as Alabama, Democrats ; she also states that she does not advocate any single procedural rule, but rather that all alternatives be considered in the context of litigation " after the court finds a legal violation.

Often a dominant woman, she may prefer to be called a Domme (), Femdomme, Domina, or Dominatrix, depending on context or personal preference.

Proponents hold that concept begins with the premise that when an unmarried woman becomes pregnant, she has the option of abortion, adoption, or parenthood ; and argues, in the context of legally recognized gender equality, that in the earliest stages of pregnancy the putative ( alleged ) father should have the same human rights to relinquish all future parental rights and financial responsibility — leaving the informed mother with the same three options.