I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The value of place-names in the reconstruction of early English history had long been recognized.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

This procedure is extremely shortsighted in chronic labor surplus areas with a long history of declining employment.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

The concept has a long history in philosophical and ethical thought.

* Earth Architecture and Conservation in East Anglia-British organisation that focuses on the proper maintenance and conservation of earth buildings in a region of the UK that has a long history of building with mud.

Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.

Antigua and Barbuda has a long history of free elections, three of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

The alphorn's exact origins remain indeterminate, and the ubiquity of horn-like signal instruments in valleys throughout Europe may indicate a long history of cross influences regarding their construction and usage.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

Safety profiles of newer drugs are often not as well established as for those that have a long history of use.

He especially enjoyed reading and being read to, spending long hours listening to William read early drafts of his history.

The spoken forms of British English vary considerably, reflecting a long history of dialect development amid isolated populations.

Chinese art has a long history of varied styles and emphases.

Anti-realism about matter or physical entities also has a long history.

The care for cultural patrimony has a long history within traditions of fixing and mending objects, and in individual restorations of artworks.

He plainly told them, when witnesses were produced against him, that he came not thither with an intention to deny anything he had done, but rather to bring it to light, owning his name subscribed to the warrant for executing the King, to be written by himself ; charging divers of those who sat on the Bench, as his judges, to have been formerly as active for the cause, in which he had engaged, as himself or any other person ; affirming that he had not acted by any other motive than the principles of conscience and justice ; for proof of which he said it was well known, he had chosen to be separated from his family, and to suffer a long imprisonment rather than to comply with those who had abused the power they had assumed to the oppression of the people.

This made Afghanistan, long known under the Taliban for its oppression of women, one of the leading countries in terms of female representation.

International pressures mounted, increasingly isolating the Afrikaners and identifying their policies with the worst kind of godless oppression ; but this was a long time in producing a crisis of conscience — or at least, it did not for some time produce sufficient energy to dismantle the complex social system that had been founded upon apartheid.

In a way we are like Negroes, who have a long record of oppression and misunderstanding, and we feel akin to them.

Ireland is one of the most ancient nations in Europe, and she has preserved her national integrity, vigorous and intact, through seven centuries of foreign oppression ; she has never relinquished her national rights, and throughout the long era of English usurpation she has in every generation defiantly proclaimed her inalienable right of nationhood down to her last glorious resort to arms in 1916.

In his time the financial situation of the Empire was troubling, and certain social classes had long been under oppression under difficult taxes.

: I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me-The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber, in which we remain as long as we do not think-We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a bright appearance, we care not to hasten to it ; but are at length imperceptibly impelled by awakening of the thinking principle-within us-we no sooner get into the second Chamber, which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought, than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere, we see nothing but pleasant wonders, and think of delaying there for ever in delight: However among the effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one's vision into the nature and heart of Man — of convincing one's nerves that the World is full of misery and Heartbreak, Pain, sickness and oppression — whereby This Chamber of Maiden Thought becomes gradually darken'd and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open-but all dark-all leading to dark passages — We see not the balance of good and evil.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and especially during the long initial period marked by intensive Maoist indoctrination and mass oppression through waves of purges and campaigns and " criticism / struggle " culminating with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1965-76 when Mao himself died, the suit became widely worn by the entire male population, formally as a symbol of proletarian unity, but in fact as a form of personal — and virtually camouflage — coloration ; it was, of course, regularly worn by Communist Party cadres until the 1990s when it was largely replaced by the Western business suit.

The code was adopted by Sicilians long before the emergence of Cosa Nostra and it may have been heavily influenced by centuries of state oppression, Northern Italian exploitation, and foreign colonization of Sicily.

After a long search, the future Cheoljong was found on Ganghwa Island where his family had fled to hide from oppression.

However, unlike Ozma, Glinda is willing to ignore strife and oppression in remote corners of Oz like Jinxland and the Skeezer territory as long as it does not threaten the Emerald City or innocent outsiders.

There will never be a revolutionary movement in this country that doesn ’ t fully unleash and give expression to the sometimes openly expressed, sometimes expressed in partial ways, sometimes expressed in wrong ways, but deeply, deeply felt desire to be rid of these long centuries of oppression Black people.

" For forty-two long months had she been a prey to rapine, oppression, fratricidal strife, and poverty.

Citizens were protesting the long reign of their President, Hosni Mubarak, as well as the high unemployment rate, government corruption, poverty, and oppression within society.

Appalling bloodshed and civil war will become inevitable because, as long as there is oppression of a majority, such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Finally, in Tanzania the Arusha Declaration was created to demand independence because for as long as there is foreign influence in Tanzania there would be no industrial development just more poverty and oppression in Tanzanian society.

This made the Glasgow Herald, who was usually no friend to nationalism, state: " That ere long the commercial community will be sighing for a banking William Wallace to free them from southern oppression.

After the failure of the various attempts to make Italy a province of the Byzantine empire, the Jews had to suffer much oppression from the Exarch of Ravenna ; but it was not long until the greater part of Italy came into the possession of the Lombards ( 568 774 ), under whom they lived in peace.

It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends ... when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

This effort completely failed as the non-Magyar peoples preferred to join Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia ; the long years of oppression by the Magyars had " borne fruit ".

Having long endured so-called dhimmi status, and having suffered the brutality and oppression of Hamidian leadership since 1876, the Armenian minority in Cilicia perceived the nascent Young Turk government as a godsend.

Clergy who resisted this development were subject to oppression, including long imprisonments as in the case of Cardinal Kung, and torture and martyrdom as in the case of Fr.

Integrity believes that, although ECUSA and ACC have made tremendous strides toward inclusiveness, there is still a long way to go and that in too many parishes and dioceses, prejudice and oppression are still the norm.