as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Modern customs and institutions offer few useful parallels to the legal and social context which defined the gladiatoria munera Under law, anyone condemned to the arena or the gladiator schools ( ad ludum ) was a servus poenae under sentence of death unless manumitted.

All arenarii ( those who appeared in the arena ) were " infames by reputation ", a form of social dishonour which excluded them from most of the advantages and rights of citizenship.

This takes place in the superstructure of society, the political arena in the form of revolution, whereby the underclass " liberates " the productive forces with new relations of production, and social relations, corresponding to it.

Intersections and crossing of the prescribed boundaries have no place in the arena of the social construct of the term " gender ".

Starting in the 1970s, Bookchin argued that the arena for libertarian social change should be the municipal level.

The political and social role of University of Tehran in the Iranian domestic arena has continued to be so pronounced that in November 2005 ( to February 2008 ) a senior Islamic scholar became chancellor of the university, replacing Dr. Faraji-dana ( professor of electrical engineering faculty ).

This broad shift in the social arena, in turn, changes the way the individual perceives reality.

Post-war, after decades of stasis certain high-profile tragedies, including thalidomide, and social changes brought the issue of abortion back into the political arena.

In the arena of social policy it may refer to a relaxation of laws restricting for example divorce, abortion, or drugs and to the elimination of laws prohibiting same-sex sexual relations or same-sex marriage.

In fact, Drucker anticipated the rise of the social sector in America, maintaining that it was through volunteering in nonprofits that people would find the kind of fulfillment that he originally thought would be provided through their place of work, but that had proven elusive in that arena.

These spaces acted as the ' commons ' of the people ; a political, social and cultural arena, indeed Jürgen Habermas ' concept of the public sphere links its emergence with the development of democracy.

Patricia Phillips describes the “ social desire for an art that is contemporary and timely, that responds to and reflects its temporal and circumstantial context .” Public art is an arena for investigation, exploration and articulation of the dense and diverse public landscape.

Members of the sindicato social movement first began suggesting that they move into the political arena in 1986.

The battle against the dilution of Lebanon: the Kataeb Party entered the political and parliamentary scene during the late 1940s after a period in which it refrained from entering the political arena to focus mainly on the promotion of the youth and on social issues, away from the trivialities of post-mandate politics.

She remains active in the international arena and continues to speak in defense of liberty, equality and social justice, and for the need of Europe to acknowledge the whole of its history.

Over time, these musicians formed independent troupes who used and continue to use the non-threatening performance format to explore sensitive social and political themes in the public arena.

To Bobbitt, the curriculum is a social engineering arena.

Another dimension of the tribal patronage, as described by Zaken in his important book, is the execution of justice by the chieftains on behalf of their Jewish subjects ; another dimension of the patronage is the tradition according to which it was kept within some Kurdish tribes: some tribal chieftains and village heads Aghas would transmit to their heirs the social and tribal importance of giving patronage and supporting the Jewish subjects in the Kurdish tribal arena.

# Bracketing of inequalities: Fraser makes us recall that " the bourgeois conception of the public sphere requires bracketing inequalities of status ": The " public sphere was to be an arena in which interlocutors would set aside such characteristics as difference in birth and fortune and speak to one another as if they were social and economic peers ".

Another area that is affected by these disorders is the social arena for the person with the disorder.

The reforms, however, have left a number of issues, mainly in the social and political arena, unresolved.

Whiteness studies is an interdisciplinary arena of academic inquiry focused on what proponents describe as the cultural, historical and sociological aspects of people identified as white, and the social construction of whiteness as an ideology tied to social status.

The couple were arrested and punished because their relationship violated the traditional social order, but they were pardoned on the king's death.

These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension.

Anthropologists, along with other social scientists, are working with the US military as part of the US Army's strategy in Afghanistan.

Although drops in its external assistance budget have reduced French military and social development aid to the country, France remains the most important bilateral donor and the country from which C. A. R.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

His reform legislation was finally rammed through Congress under pressure from younger military officers, who were sick of the neglect of the armed forces, political infighting, social unrest, and galloping inflation.

Conversely, some men have cross-dressed to escape from mandatory military service or as a disguise to assist in political or social protest, as men did in the Rebecca Riots.

The United States approved a US $ 1. 3 billion assistance package, mostly of military and counternarcotics nature, but also including a small amount of social aid.

The Colombian Government sought additional support from the IFIs, the European Union, and other countries, with the intention of financing the social component of the original plan, but met with little cooperation as the would-be donors considered that the U. S. approved aid represented an undue military slant and additionally lacked the will to spend such amounts of money.

Some critical observers consider that Uribe's policies, while admittedly reducing crime and guerrilla activity, might be too slanted in favor of a military solution to Colombia's internal war, neglecting grave social and human rights concerns to a certain extent.

Nonetheless, Clausewitz conceived of war as a political, social, and military phenomenon which might — depending on circumstances — involve the entire population of a nation at war.

As the class grew to be more of a social elite instead of a functional property-based military grouping, the Romans began to employ Italian socii for filling the ranks of their cavalry.

Knighthood largely lost its military functions and became more closely tied to social and economic prestige in an increasingly capitalistic Western society.

For this reason, and because of their often decisive military role, the cavalry has typically been associated with high social status.

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

A variety of factors contributed: social and economic injustice and racism against the indigenous population, the 1954 coup which reversed reforms, weak civilian control of the military, the United States support of the government, and Cuban support of the insurgents.

The government attempted to suppress the rebellion by military force but the attempt failed, due to long-term corrosion of the Armed Forces due to political and social factors.

Within the Majlis al-Shura, there existed seven specialized committees dealing with ideological, financial, military and political, judicial, informational and social affairs.

Structurally, Hezbollah does not distinguish between its political / social activities within Lebanon and its military / jihad activities against Israel.

Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the enforcement of Sharia ( Islamic law ); of pan-Islamic political unity ; and of the elimination of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world, which they believe to be incompatible with Islam.

Julian was a man of unusually complex character: he was " the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer, and the man of letters ".

The resulting social pressures were complicated by bursts of deflation that resulted from John's military campaigns.

As the term ' knight ' became increasingly confined to denoting a social rank the military role of fully armoured cavalryman gained a separate term, ' man-at-arms '.

The code of chivalry dealt with three main areas: the military, social life, and religion.

Women's experiences in the work force and the military during World War II gave them economic and social options that helped to shape lesbian subculture.

His stated desire was for Canada to occupy a social, military and economic ' middle power ' role in the post-World War II world.