Seeing Mme Tallien at the opera, Talleyrand quipped that: " Il n ' est pas possible de s ' exposer plus somptueusement!

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand commented: " Il n ' est pas possible de s ' exposer plus somptueusement!

* Philip Graves, journalist and exposer of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a hoax.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

The group of Westerners aroused suspicion for the authorities, and consequently ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ’ s confinement was tightened.

* " Use by law enforcement personnel of an individual ’ s race or ethnicity as a factor in articulating reasonable suspicion to stop, question or arrest an individual, unless race or ethnicity is part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime.

However, upon arrival in St. Louis, Santos-Dumont found his airship ’ s gas bag to be irreparably damaged: sabotage, although suspected, was never proven, and Santos-Dumont did not participate in the contest after suspicion of the deed, a repeat of a similar incident in Boston, began to focus somewhat absurdly on Santos-Dumont himself, and he indignantly left the Fair and returned immediately to France.

Animated probably by an irrational fear of a Carthaginian revival, but possibly by suspicion of Masinissa ’ s ambitions, Cato thenceforward advocated, finally with success, the destruction of Carthage.

By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use ; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U. S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington ’ s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.

Nonetheless, suspicion of Anti-Treaty complicity in Wilson ’ s murder, and perceived British pressure to do something about it, was one of several triggers of the Irish Civil War.

Andy Palmer, who at the time was the host of “ West Virginia ’ s Most Wanted ,” claimed that two victims were chosen randomly to throw suspicion off the gang for killing its intended target, Jeanie Patton.

The Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme ( CHIRP ), an experimental, voluntary, anonymous and informal system of reporting hazardous air events introduced within BEA in the late 1960s ( and later adopted by the Civil Aviation Authority and NASA ), brought to light two earlier near-accidents, the " Orly " and " Naples " incidents: these involved flight crew error in the first case and suspicion of the Trident ’ s control layout in the second.

The War Office also reacted with suspicion to Redmond ’ s remark that the Volunteers would soon return as an armed army to oppose Ulster ’ s resistance to Home Rule.

Even before the outbreak of World War II, the community ’ s German members and its pacifist stance attracted deep suspicion locally resulting in economic boycotts.

Poor health and the bungled arrest of an American banker in London, Stephen Sayre, on suspicion of a plot to kidnap George III, prompted Rochford ’ s retirement on 11 November 1775, with a generous pension and a promise of the ‘ Blue Ribband ’ ( Knight of the Garter ).

On 15 June, after ordering an attack on Mir Jafar ’ s palace in suspicion of his alliance with the British, Siraj obtained a promise from Mir Jafar to not join the British in the field of battle.

Štefánik ’ s sudden death, in combination with his preceding quarrels with Beneš, contributed to Slovak suspicion towards the Czechs during the First Republic of Czechoslovakia.

Further suspicion was aroused to Hall ’ s return when Nash said that he was getting " the band " back together, hinting at an nWo return.

ShareReactor remained the top eD2k indexing website up until March 2004 when it suddenly was closed due to suspicion of breach of copyright and trademark laws within the country of Switzerland where ShareReactor ’ s owner lived and where ShareReactor was being hosted.

Aware of the detective ’ s suspicion, Johann confronts Braun and leads him to a rooftop whilst discussing the incident which led to his dismissal from the police.

In Science, Grant ( 2002 ) critically summarised the book's content, saying " What it delivers is a quasi-scientific assessment of the evidence for natural selection in the peppered moth ( Biston betularia ), much of which is cast in doubt by the author ’ s relentless suspicion of fraud ".

Richard Wolin ( The Seduction of Unreason 2004 ) has traced the modern descendants of the Counter-Enlightenment in postmodernism ’ s deep suspicion of “ universalism ,” paralleled by its endorsement of “ identity politics ,” and concludes that it has worked against the values of toleration and mutual recognition, not merely of diversity but of commonality.

A newspaper editorial from the Richmond News Leader opined that " Attempts to dismiss the reported sightings under the rationale as exhibited by Project Bluebook ( sic ) won ’ t solve the mystery … and serve only to heighten the suspicion that there ’ s something out there that the air force doesn't want us to know about ", while a Wichita-based UPI reporter noted that " Ordinary radar does not pick up planets and stars.

In Papachristou v. Jacksonville,, the Court held that a traditional vagrancy law was void for vagueness because its “ broad scope and imprecise terms denied proper notice to potential offenders and permitted police officers to exercise unfettered discretion in the enforcement of the law .” In Brown v. Texas,, the Court struck down Texas ’ s stop-and-identify law as violating the Fourth Amendment because it allowed police officers to stop individuals without “ specific, objective facts establishing reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect was involved in criminal activity .” And in Kolender v. Lawson,, the Court struck down a California stop-and-identify law that required a suspect to provide “ credible and reliable identification ” upon request.

For their own protection, police may perform a quick surface search of the person ’ s outer clothing for weapons if they have reasonable suspicion that the person stopped is armed.

There is no suspicion of any relations until the letter in 1689, even during the period of Galitzine ’ s rise to power.