A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

For it is their catastrophic concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions rather than Kemble's gradualist approach which dominates the field.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

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.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The concept of trans-illumination ( as shown by the photo on p. 92 ), as just one example, offers an entirely new approach to lighting problems -- no matter what industry is involved.

Eugenics was a controversial concept shortly after its creation.

The concept of full disclosure is controversial, but not new ; it has been an issue for locksmiths since the 19th century.

Michael Behe's controversial book Darwin's Black Box popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.

Despite the safeguards built into the constitutions of most of these organizations, courts and tribunals, the concept of universal jurisdiction is controversial among those states which prefer unilateral to multilateral solutions through the use of executive or military authority, sometimes described as realpolitik-based diplomacy.

Although some of these patients improve following thymectomy, some patients experience severe exacerbations and the highly controversial concept of " therapeutic thymectomy " for patients with thymus hyperplasia is disputed by many experts, and efforts are underway to unequivocally answer this important question.

The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept " race ", and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination.

This is particularly true in relation to the controversial concept of ' sustainable enterprise ' that frames global needs and risks as ' opportunities ' for private enterprise to provide profitable entrepreneurial solutions.

It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method-a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.

The concept of terrorism may itself be controversial as it is often used by state authorities ( and individuals with access to state support ) to delegitimize political or other opponents, and potentially legitimize the state's own use of armed force against opponents ( such use of force may itself be described as " terror " by opponents of the state ).

As with " terrorism " the concept of " state terrorism " is controversial.

The concept also remains a controversial topic within women's studies.

A government that is unable to obtain supply can be dismissed by the Governor-General: however, this is generally considered a last resort and is a highly controversial decision to take, given the conflict between the traditional concept of confidence as derived from the lower house and the ability of the Senate to block supply.

However, sustainable development is a recent, controversial concept.

Today, China proper is a controversial concept in China itself, since the current official paradigm does not contrast the core and the periphery of China.

The concept of government-owned generation facilities selling to publicly owned distribution utilities was controversial and remains so today.

The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base ( NGSCB ), formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial " Trusted Computing " concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Despite the controversial philosophical origins of the concept, particularly its close association with logical positivism, operational definitions have undisputed practical applications.

The concept that the world is an illusion is controversial in Buddhism.

In February 1980, Morrison and a group of musicians travelled to Super Bear, a studio in the French Alps, to record ( on the site of a former abbey ) what is considered to be the most controversial album in his discography ; later " Morrison admitted that his original concept was even more esoteric than the final product.

Where the concept of a " meaning " is admitted, its nature is controversial.

As a scientific concept, the existence of zero-point energy is not controversial although the ability to harness it is.

Despite being an ardent pro-tobacco advocate, he was appointed Health Secretary in 1988, in which office he introduced the controversial ' internal market ' concept in the NHS.

The relationship between Vivian and Edward also originally harboured controversial themes, including the concept of having Vivian addicted to drugs ; part of the deal was that she had to stay off cocaine for a week, because she needed the money to go to Disneyland.

It was a controversial release due to the album's overall concept, which to this day remains quite unclear to some.