Moreover, the view that mankind was making slow and steady moral progress came to seem ridiculous in the face of the senseless slaughter.

At the time of the event, Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants stated that " Holocaust survivors view Jedwabne as a symbol of the widespread, but little acknowledged, collaboration by the local population in the countries occupied by the Nazis in the slaughter and the plunder of the Jews during World War II.

Citations of towns taken either violently or bloodlessly, reading back into Arab Sindh information belonging to a later date and dubious accounts such as those of the forcible circumcision of Brahmins at Deybul or Qasims consideration of Hindu sentiment in forbidding the slaughter of cows are used as examples for one particular view or the other.

Angel tries to sway her to his point of view, to recruit her to his side, but Jasmine prefers to slaughter humanity herself before giving free will a chance, as she had seen for millennia what this precious free will would bring about.

Furthermore, Bauer has disputed the popular view that most Jews went to their deaths passively —" like sheep to the slaughter.

Even after his death, Umar was responsible for the election that followed him, an election where Ali is quoted to view it as in effect rigged to the extent that he could not win it, in practice giving away the Muslim nation to Islam's former arch-enemies, the Banu Umayyad, starting with Uthman and continuing with the adopted son of Abu Sufyan, Muawiya I, followed by Yazid I, resulting in the slaughter of Banu Hashim in the battle of Karbala and ultimately the pillage and rape of Medina and the catapult assault on the Kaaba.

This allowed them to view the herds as nuisances and deal with them as such, including sending many to slaughter.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

In Krutch's view, this is one way to show how literature may be moral in effect without employing the explicit methods of a moralist.

This is nevertheless a minority view.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

Krim's typicality consists only in his New Yorker's view that New York is the world ; ;

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

That notion is fantastically wrong-headed from several points of view.

It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.

The headline is offensive, particularly in view of the total inaccuracy of the editorial.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

It was against this background that Josephus wrote his War, and although this work has often been dismissed as pro-Roman propaganda ( hardly a surprising view, given the source of his patronage ), he claims to be writing to counter anti-Judean accounts.

That daily tides should be caused by full moons and new moons is manifestly wrong, which would be a surprising view in a Greek astronomer and mathematician of the times.

In view of its history, it is not surprising Boskoop has a nursery museum ( http :// www. boomkwekerijmuseum. nl ).

Harun Nasution in the Mu ' tazila and Rational Philosophy, translated in Martin ( 1997 ), commented on Mu ' tazili extensive use of rationality in the development of their religious views saying: " It is not surprising that opponents of the Mu ' tazila often charge the Mu ' tazila with the view that humanity does not need revelation, that everything can be known through reason, that there is a conflict between reason and revelation, that they cling to reason and put revelation aside, and even that the Mu ' tazila do not believe in revelation.

Opposition voices were increasingly harassed or jailed, a situation that was not surprising in view of the regime's growing fears over national security.

In 1845 he and his opinions were the subject of an attack by Liebig, unjustifiable in its personalities but not altogether surprising in view of his wayward disregard of his patron ’ s advice.

The New Yorker commented, " his methods and the point of view behind them don't seem as funny or as sharp as they once did, possibly because they are no longer surprising, or possibly because he is getting a little tired of his own joke.

Pamyat came out in support of the Yeltsin regime during 1993 bombing of the Russian parliament, a surprising move in view of the fact that Pamyat had many ideological sympathisers amidst the defenders of the parliament.

This is not altogether surprising in view of the variability referred to above.

In 1245 the statutes of Biella were already referring to the woolworkers ' and weavers ' guilds: hardly surprising in view of the region's high mountain pastures and copious water supply needed for washing fleece and powering mills.

to the Most Illustrious Princess, The Dutchess of Mazarine ... how infinitely one of Your own Sex ador'd You, and that, among all the numerous Conquest, Your Grace has made over the Hearts of Men, Your Grace had not subdu'd a more intire Slave ; I assure you, Madam, there is neither Compliment, nor Poetry, in this humble Declaration, but a Truth, which has cst me a great deal of Inquietude, for that Fortune has not set me in such a Station, as might justifie my Pretence to the honour and satisfaction of being ever near Your Grace, to view eternally that lovely Person, and here that surprising Wit ; what can be more grateful to a Heart, than so great, and so agreeable, an Entertainment?

Thus ACS can study objects outside the field of view of the other instruments, with surprising spatial and energy resolution.

Good impressions came onto the market only sporadically and even then the funds were often lacking – hardly surprising in the view of the way prices have risen.

This was a surprising collaboration in view of what had happened just 18 months earlier at the gathering under the auspices of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Naturforscher and the responses in the press by Einstein, Laue, and Nernst.

In his book " The Other-without fear, favour or prejudice ", Greenland reveals, for the first time in 2010, that Judge Pitman made a surprising and inexplicable " about-face ", having first been firmly of the view that Tekere was entitled to the indemnity and then changing his mind without proferring good reason.

In the elections of 1958 it managed to become the leading party of the opposition, an achievement all the more surprising in view of the recent end of the Greek civil war and the consequently prevailing anti-Left politics at the time.