The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

Whereas Bultmann's `` center '' position is structurally inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds alone, the general position of the `` right '', as represented, say, by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material grounds we have just considered.

On the other hand, an amateur may be in a position to approach a subject with an open mind ( as a result of the lack of formal training ) and in a financially disinterested manner.

Though Hollingworth gave up his episcopal position to accept the appointment, it still attracted considerable opposition in a country which maintains a formal separation between Church and State.

Although he did not hold a formal executive position in the government, Chiang continued to issue orders to the army, and many officers continued to obey Chiang rather than Li.

This is not necessarily a formal position since most Muslims argue that anyone trained in Islamic law may give an opinion ( fatwā ) on its teachings.

From 1872 to 1875, he was director of the concerts of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde ; afterwards, he accepted no formal position.

Absent a formal arrest, the issue is whether a reasonable person in the suspect's position would have believed that he was under " full custodial " arrest.

Edsger W. Dijkstra took the position that the use of a formal language is essential to prevent the introduction of meaningless constructs, and dismissed natural language programming as " foolish ".

His diplomatic position was such that his name is still on the oldest extant piece of English statute law, the Statute of Marlborough of 1267, where the formal title mentions as a witness " the Lord Ottobon, at that time legate in England ".

This departed from the traditional position requiring formal conversion to Judaism for children without a Jewish mother.

In 1998, the American Psychiatric Association issued a statement opposing any treatment which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder or that a person should change their orientation, but did not have a formal position on other treatments that attempt to change a person's sexual orientation.

Injuries may occur if students are taught to block punches in a formal manner ( chamber position, perfect angles, etc.

A more formal inequality relating the standard deviation of position σ < sub > x </ sub > and the standard deviation of momentum σ < sub > p </ sub > was derived by Earle Hesse Kennard later that year ( and independently by Hermann Weyl in 1928 ),

Having influenced the Polish Brethren to a formal declaration of this belief in the Racovian Catechism, Fausto Sozzini involuntarily ended up giving his name to this Christological position, which continued with English Unitarians such as John Biddle's Twofold Catechism ( 1654 ).

Until recently, there was no formal protection for those who spoke up from a position of knowledge inside government, with even senior civil servants ( Shiv Chopra being one notable case ) fired or constructively dismissed for speaking up about internal abuses.

After World War I, as full-scale formal weddings began to be desired by the mothers of brides who did not have a permanent social secretary, the position of the " wedding planner " who could coordinate the printer, florist, caterer, seamstress, began to assume importance.

The doctrine was also invoked by U. S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — and remained the official U. S. position until the Baltic states gained formal international recognition as independent states in 1991.

At this point, each man from any party ran alone, as the formal position of " running mate " had not yet been established.

A de facto standard is a standard ( formal or informal ) that has achieved a dominant position, by tradition, enforcement, or market dominance.

Emperor Augustus established the formal position of monarch on the basis of principate, not dominion.

The party took a formal position in 1921, opposing the increasing power of the Fascist movement.

At the end of March 2004, Thomson made a formal complaint about Saatchi to the Office of Fair Trading, claiming that Saatchi's leading position was monopolistic " to the detriment of smaller competitors ", citing Vine as an example of this.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

The crisis appears to have passed, but to the surprise of Lord Abe the Americans return to request formal trading arrangements.

The Americans based in Tiverton, planned a formal siege of the town.

A few weeks before the formal end of World War I, Lansing informed the crumbling Austro-Hungarian government that the Americans could no longer negotiate on the basis of Wilson's Fourteen Points.

While a sense of ethnic identity may coexist with racial identity ( Chinese Americans among Asian or Irish American among European or White, for example ), the long history of the United States as a settler, conqueror and slave society, and the formal and informal inscription of racialized groupings into law and social stratification schemes has bestowed upon race a fundamental social identification role in the United States.

This can cause confusion when U. S. students attempt to speak French in Canada, as there are significant dialectal differences between the two ; although the differences are fortunately minimized if formal French is used, informal conversational Quebec French can be challenging for Americans and other non-Canadians to understand.

Close to 8 % of Americans are unbanked, meaning around 9 million are without any kind of bank account or formal financial services.

In using this vernacular, Lowell intended to get closer to the common man's experience and was rebelling against more formal and, as he thought, unnatural representations of Americans in literature.

On 26 January 2009, President of the United States Barack Obama gave his first formal interview as president to Al Arabiya, delivering the message to the Muslim world that " Americans are not your enemy ", while also reiterating that " Israel is a strong ally of the United States " and that they " will not stop being a strong ally of the United States ".

A number of informal avenues were closed down ( Gerry, for instance, informed Hauteval that they could no longer meet, since Hauteval had no formal authority ), and Talleyrand finally appeared in November 1797 at a dinner, although he primarily castigated the Americans for their unwillingness to accede to the demand for a bribe.

The Ohio Native Americans agreed to attend a more formal peace conference with William Johnson, which was finalized in July 1765.

Murphy's support of African-Americans, aliens, criminals, dissenters, Jehovah's Witnesses, Native Americans, women, workers, and other outsiders evoked a pun: “ tempering justice with Murphy .” As he wrote in Falbo v. United States ( 1944 ), “ The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution .” ( p. 561 )

ILO statistics show a wide range of average hours worked and average holidays for different countries ; for example, Korean workers work the most hours per year, and Americans have fewer formal holidays than West Europeans.

The Legal Immigrant Association started an online petition calling for a formal apology, indicating that Cafferty's rant was anti-Chinese and has had the effect of exacerbating negative attitudes held by Americans toward Chinese and Chinese Americans.

A proclamation (# 5719 ) to this effect was issued October 2, 1987, by President Reagan in a formal ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, at which time the President called on Americans to observe the Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

The state never built a separate school for blacks, so African Americans who remained on the island in its declining years never received the benefits of a formal education .. African Americans ( most of them slaves ) were heavily engaged in fishing and other maritime trades on Portsmouth, piloting and manning vessels, even building a small man-made island, Shell Castle, out of oyster shells for use as a shipping depot.

“ Black Americans are not defeated ,” he told Ebony soon after his formal induction in 1977.

Since the Black Arts Movement, traditional African clothing has been popular amongst African Americans for both formal and informal occasions.

Mild racist riots occurred during 1992 when several Filipinos, led by Armando Ducat, Jr., a businessman, campaigned for ' kicking-out the Chinese-Filipinos instead of the Americans ', referring to the formal closure of the American military bases in the Philippines, and during 1998, when a Chinese mestizo, Senator Alfredo Lim, entered the candidacy for president.

Many Americans north and south delighted in military uniforms and titles, musters and parades, and the formal balls their companies sponsored during the winter social season.

In 1878, Hampton established a formal education program for Native Americans.