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movement and toward
Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.
Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.
Then, after many more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again.
The White House website was part of a wider movement of the Clinton administration toward web-based communication.
As the height of water increases, movement toward the periphery becomes no longer advantageous, because the reduction in potential energy from working with the centrifugal force is balanced against the increase in energy working against gravity.
Despite movement toward democratic reform, power remains in the hands of a northern ethnic oligarchy.
Caloric reflex test also evaluates both cortical and brainstem function ; cold water is injected into one ear and the patient is observed for eye movement ; if the patient's eyes slowly deviate toward the ear where the water was injected, then the brainstem is intact, however failure to deviate toward the injected ear indicates damage of the brainstem on that side.
Positive chemotaxis occurs if the movement is toward a higher concentration of the chemical in question.
However, the word " deism ", as it is understood today, is generally used to refer to the movement toward natural theology or freethinking that occurred in 17th-century Europe, and specifically in Britain.
The Oriental and Eastern Churches have also been working toward reconciliation as a consequence of the ecumenical movement.
The basic form of this sign is produced with the initial posture of the index finger on the chin, followed by a movement of the hand and finger tip toward the indirect object ( the recipient of the telling ).
The Soviet Union's subsequent movement toward rapprochement with the hated Yugoslavs rankled the two Albanian leaders.
Though by this time opposition to images was strongly entrenched in Judaism and Islam, attribution of the impetus toward an iconoclastic movement in Eastern Orthodoxy to Muslims or Jews " seems to have been highly exaggerated, both by contemporaries and by modern scholars ".
In the 1870s, there was a broad movement toward incorporating Sunday schools into the doctrines of churches as a way to take ownership of the Christian education of children.
... We are now entering a period of our history where our Church development and family orientation are strong enough that we can turn our attention toward ending the widespread misunderstanding about our founder and the Unification movement.
Wendy McElroy, an individualist feminist, wrote in 2001 that some feminists " have redefined the view of the movement of the opposite sex " as " a hot anger toward men seems to have turned into a cold hatred.
This tendency toward devaluation of art has led many to claim that Dada was an essentially nihilistic movement.
Mills argued for a shift from traditional leftism, toward the values of the counter-culture, and emphasized an international perspective on the movement.
According to Wiccan tradition, there is no separation between " clergy " and " congregation " and all initiates are generally considered to be priestesses and priests, though there is a growing movement toward allowing laity and not requiring active participation in circles.
He was quickly acknowledged as a leader of the new movement toward " social " science fiction.
The movement emphasizes positive views toward modernism, and has an approach to Jewish custom which aims toward communal decision making through a process of education and distillation of values from traditional Jewish sources.
In Norway, romanticism was embodied, not in literature, but in the movement toward a national style, both in architecture and in ethos.

movement and European
Many factors contributed to the growth of the European movement.
Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.
The `` overseas '' democracies have generally encouraged the European unification movement without seriously considering the wisdom of their own full participation in a broader Atlantic community.
In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, agrarianism felt the influence of the European Romanticism movement.
Other anti-war demonstrations were organized by the antiglobalization movement: see for example the large demonstration, organized against the impending war in Iraq, which closed the first European Social Forum in November, 2002 in Florence, Italy.
Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.
The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.
Article 18 provided a limited right to free movement and residence in Member States other than that of which the European Union citizen is a national.
In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.
Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century.
He had a particularly important part in opening a dialogue between the west European peace movement and dissidents in Soviet-dominated eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, for which he was denounced as a tool of American imperialism by the Soviet authorities.
In 1999, Switzerland concluded a set of bilateral agreements with the European Union covering a wide range of areas, including movement of persons, transport, and technical barriers to trade.
* Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
With the exception of Russia, all neighboring and Baltic states are members of the European Union or the Nordic Council, both of which free movement of persons and capital between the countries.
These included strikes against leading Jordanian politicians, as a means of exacting vengeance and raising the price for attacking the Palestinian movement ; and also, most controversially, for " international operations " ( e. g. the Munich Olympics attack ), intended both to put pressure on the US, European countries and Israel, and to raise the visibility of the Palestinian cause, and to upstage radical rivals such as the PFLP.
Although rooted in Islam, the movement's pioneers have also utilised secular and European or non-Muslim feminist discourses and recognise the role of Islamic feminism as part of an integrated global feminist movement.
Fingal written in 1762 was speedily translated into many European languages, and its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature, influencing Herder and Goethe.
This culture was a part of the European Battle Axe cultures, which have often been associated with the movement of the Indo-European speakers.
Impressionism in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, which appeared in the late nineteenth century and continued into the beginning of the twentieth century.
From the 1990s onwards a growing number of European Improv groups have been set up specifically to explore the possibilities offered by the use of the abstract in improvised performance, including dance, movement, sound, music, mask work, lighting, and so on.
At the center were members of the Bauhaus, a European architectural movement that had advanced the cause of modernist design.
Musical Impressionism is the name given to a movement in European classical music that arose in the late 19th century and continued into the middle of the 20th century.
European Jews who rejected the Hasidic movement were dubbed by the Hasidim as Misnagdim, ( lit.

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