The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

This outcome also makes a country more self-sufficient and politically independent, because food importation is reduced.

As Athens attracted an increasing number of resident aliens ( metics ), this shift in the definition of citizen worked to keep the immigrant population more sharply distinguished politically.

With Parks Canada and UNESCO recognising the significance of the Burgess Shale, collecting fossils became politically more difficult from the mid-1970s.

The new Constitution, brought about a considerable number of institutional and legal reforms based on principles that the delegates considered as more modern, humanist, democratic and politically open than those in the 1886 constitution.

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.

In 1769, he became more politically active, presenting the Virginia Assembly with legislation to ban the importation of goods from Great Britain.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

Some East Germans saw the state as illegitimate, artificial, a Stalinist puppet regime, and they opposed the dominance of the Socialist Unity Party while viewing West Germany as more socially and politically ' attractive '.

Both " global warming " and the more politically neutral " climate change " were listed by the Global Language Monitor as political buzzwords or catchphrases in 2005.

Although starting the whole system at once was politically expedient, it delayed completion, and forced even more reliance on temporary experts brought in from Britain.

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Lebanese political analyst, argues that although Zionism has influenced Hezbollah's anti-Judaism, " it is not contingent upon it " because Hezbollah's hatred of Jews is more religiously motivated than politically motivated.

" She notes that the term Śrāvakayāna was " the more politically correct and much more usual " term used by Mahāyānists.

Prominently, George R R Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series more or less abandons the good-evil paradigm in favor of a more politically based and multifaceted struggle between different ruling families, most of whom display both good and evil tendencies in pursuit of power, which takes the place of the main catalyst of the story.

Technically, the men involved were considered to be in a serious breach of IRA discipline and were liable to be court-martialed, but it was considered more politically expedient to hold them up as examples of a rejuvenated militarism.

It was believed that a local identity and management would be more politically acceptable in the tendering process as they competed with Cable & Wireless to win the licence.

Its intended purpose was as a more politically acceptable alternative to British Isles, which is disliked by many people in Ireland.

Seldon writes " She ... made Major smarten his appearance, groomed him politically, and made him more ambitious and worldly.

But if the jurisdiction claimed is concurrent, or as in the case of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), the international tribunal is to prevail over national courts, the problems are more difficult to resolve politically.

He initially believed the office could be fulfilled in a more politically active way than president Heuss did.

The aristocracy was more thoroughly powerful politically if not economically in Italy than in contemporary Gaul and Spain.

The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

He feels very forcibly that the American Kennel Club should take a more active part in encouraging the Junior Division!!

In hard-surface cleaning, the inorganic salts are more important than the organic active.

and, indeed, there is no more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active, builder, antiredeposition agent, etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making up a given commercial organic active.

In general, the approach is more active than passive, more out-reaching than reflective.

A world in which wives have taken a more active role is likely to produce sexual relationships in which wives are more self-assertive, too ''.

Alkanes can be viewed as a molecular tree upon which can be hung the more biologically active / reactive portions ( functional groups ) of the molecule.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

From this point, his mother and stepfather took a more active role in raising him.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

But his opposition assumed a more active character in the matter of the bishop of Callinicum in Mesopotamia.

Turning to a more active life, Albert accompanied Emperor Maximilian I to Italy in 1508, and after his return spent some time in the Kingdom of Hungary.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

It could also be that he became more active in the church under his wife's guidance.

Another of his letters, to Dracontius, urges that monk to leave the desert for the more active duties of a bishop.

In both countries, BCG vaccination is not routinely given to adults because it is felt that having a reliable Mantoux test and being able to accurately detect active disease is more beneficial to society than vaccinating against a relatively rare ( in those countries ) condition.

Noth thought the History was composed by a single individual, but this idea has been more or less given up and modern scholars argue for multiple authors active over a considerable period, culminating in the mid-6th century.

These persons generally have increased energy and tend to become more active than usual.

However, despite claims of government corruption, favoritism of Zaghawas, and abuses by the security forces, opposition party and labor union calls for general strikes and more active demonstrations against the government have been unsuccessful.

By observing which areas of the brain take up the radioactive isotope, we can see which areas of the brain are more active than other areas.