-" This was and continues to be the all ages DIY punk rock scene, defined as a participatory subculture controlled by those who comprise it: the punks ... We believe that packaged tours with no ties to the local punk community utilizing outsider booking agencies without sharing the stage with local acts ..., thereby fostering local growth, reduce their music to a mere product and represent the very antithesis of punk.

Then he proves the antithesis, that time has no beginning, by showing that if time had a beginning, then there must have been " empty time " out of which time arose.

Since, necessarily, no time elapses in this pretemporal void, then there could be no alteration, and therefore nothing ( including time ) would ever come to be: so the antithesis is proven.

Then, if the logical negation is used as the antithesis, there is no rigorous way to derive a synthesis.

The 1942 short story " Talboys ", the very last Wimsey fiction produced by Sayers, is both a sequel to the present book, in having the same location and some of the same village characters, and an antithesis in being lighthearted and having no crime worse the theft of some peaches from a neighbour's garden.

" The ' glad tidings ' are precisely that there are no more opposites ...." Nietzsche does however explicitly consider Jesus as a mortal, and furthermore as ultimately misguided, the antithesis of a true hero, whom he posits with his concept of a Dionysian hero.

...... is one that redefines the terms, such that nature is no longer understood as the unproblematic opposite of culture, death no longer the mere antithesis of life.

He has become one of EastEnders biggest sex-symbols — described by the magazine, Women Republic, as " an ideal bit of rough ... the antithesis to the pretty boys who spend longer in front of the mirror than we do.

Nietzsche asks the question, " what compels us to assume there exists any essential antithesis between ' true ' and ' false '?

Ecriture féminine thus exists as an antithesis of masculine writing or as a means of escape for women.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.

For each of these a thesis is contradicted by an antithesis.

Another of the duo's high school teachers and the antithesis of Van Driessen.

The antithesis of this would be a team that relies on power hitting.

The genre's vision of a troubled future is often called the antithesis of the generally utopian visions of the future popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Confucian idea of " Rid of the two ends, take the middle " is a Chinese equivalent of Hegel's idea of " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ", which is a way of reconciling opposites, arriving at some middle ground combining the best of both.

" The second, often treated as Clausewitz's ' bottom line ,' is in fact merely his dialectical antithesis: " War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

His final reference to war and Politik, however, goes beyond his widely quoted antithesis: " War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.

Their art, though varying in style and technique, was the antithesis of the type of Academic art in which Beaux was trained and of which her teacher William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a leading master.

Especially with respect to the aggregating by David of the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Laws into a single family, David argued that the antithesis between the Anglo-Saxon Laws and Romano-German Laws, is of a technical rather than of an ideological nature.

Of a different kind is, for instance, the antithesis between ( say ) the Italian and the American Law, and of a different kind that between the Soviet, Muslim, Hindu, or Chinese Law.

In the late 19th century the moral and immoral forces came to be represented by Spenta Mainyu and its Satanic antithesis Angra Mainyu, the ' good spirit ' and ' evil spirit ' emanations of Ahura Mazda respectively.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb .— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941

Garth's first weekend on shows in Vegas received positive reviews and was called the " antithesis of Vegas glitz and of the country singer's arena and stadium extravaganzas " by USA Today.

In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy.

He was the antithesis of old, conservative Germans like Bismarck, addicted to the new imperialism that was taking place in Asia and Africa.

The style combines elements of both poetry ( shi ' r ) and rhymed prose ( saj ) and the text contains instances of literary devices like alliteration, assonance, repetition, onomatopoeia, juxtaposition and antithesis, metaphors, alternation of person and personification.

Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the " Luciferian path ," or the " energies of Lucifer ," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light ; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil.

* Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis ( 1938 ), was written as a conscious answer and antithesis to the works of H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon.

It is here that the local and ecumenical must meet.

It is here that the ecumenical must become local and the local become ecumenical.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

The local and the ecumenical are one.

As things stand now, the local and the ecumenical tend to compete with each other.

A local church which conceives its function to be entirely that of ministering to the conscious desires and concerns of its members tends to look on everything ecumenical as an extra, not as a normal aspect of its own life as a church.

Since going into ecumenical communion with their respective Anglican body, bishops in the ELCA or the ELCIC not only approve the " rostering " of all ordained pastors, diaconal ministers, and associates in ministry, but they serve as the principal celebrant of all pastoral ordination and installation ceremonies, diaconal consecration ceremonies, as well as serving as the " chief pastor " of the local synod, upholding the teachings of Martin Luther as well as the documentations of the Ninety-Five Theses and the Augsburg Confession.

Unfortunately, the use of the term " pan-Orthodox " is confusing to those not within Eastern Orthodoxy, and it leads to mistaken impressions that these are ersatz ecumenical councils rather than purely local councils to which nearby Orthodox hierarchs, regardless of jurisdiction, are invited.

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

There is a school in the village, West Bretton Junior and Infant School, and a church, which is a Anglican-Methodist local ecumenical partnership.

The Church also convenes committees and councils both at the national level ( such as the Doctrinal Commission ( Den norske kirkes lærenemnd ), and at diocesan and local levels, addressing specific issues related to education, ecumenical matters, the Sami minority and youth.

In April 1966, a New York Times article on New Jersey and the society voiced — in part — a concern for " the increasing tempo of radical right attacks on local government, libraries, school boards, parent-teacher associations, mental health programs, the Republican Party and, most recently, the ecumenical movement.

The MCC has been denied membership in the US National Council of Churches, but many local MCC congregations are members of local ecumenical partnerships around the world and MCC currently belongs to several state-wide councils of churches in the United States.

All Saints ' parish church is a Church of England and Methodist local ecumenical partnership and has clergy from both denominations.

After a period as a local ecumenical partnership, the church is now home to a small United Reformed Church congregation, seeking to build bridges into the community.

This misapprehension results from later external analysis, which assumed that the results of the ecumenical prayer movement in the early 19th century, accompanied by what were regarded as outpourings of spiritual gifts in Great Britain ( and elsewhere, though swiftly repressed by the local church authorities in other countries ), was the genesis of yet another Christian sect.

* Local ecumenical partnership or local ecumenical project

These " commissioned " Elders are licensed to be " local pastors " but are still considered lay persons by the UMC's ecumenical partners.

The United Reformed Church and Methodists formed a local ecumenical partnership, the " Whaley Bridge Uniting Partnership " in 1983, subsequently joined by the Baptists.