Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Suetonius recorded two different accounts of the origins of the Vitellius ( gens ), one making them descendants of past rulers of Latium, the other describing them as of lowly origins.

This second stage inaugurated an era of Moorish rulers guided by a version of Islam that left behind the tolerant practices of the past.

According to William of Malmesbury, relics such as the Sword of Constantine ( Emperor of Rome ) and the Lance of Charlemagne ( first Holy Roman Emperor ) came to Athelstan, suggesting that he was in some way being associated with past great rulers.

After all due care to obtain omens from the gods, make sacrifices and invite the spirits of past rulers and heroes to live in Messene, including Queen Messene, Epaminondas invited construction engineers and artisans from anywhere to join him.

Quality forgeries have been made for many of Europe's past rulers.

This policy had disastrous consequences for the Hazarajat, whose inhabitants were singled out by Abdur Rahman Khan ’ s regime as particularly troublesome: “ The Hazara people had been for centuries past the terror of the rulers of Kabul ”.

Abdulaziz asked her about the experiences of past rulers and the historical allegiance and role of tribes and individuals.

This is followed by visit to the pantheon to pay homage to the images of past Chakri rulers that are installed there.

The King also repeatedly emphasised in state ceremonies to place devotion to the Buddha, and not over guardian spirits and past rulers, of which vestiges of ancient Animist worship had a persisted among the Thais prior to his rule.

He gives the understanding of the voices of the animals, says past and future, conciliates friends and rulers, and he can lead men to hidden treasures that have been hid by the enchantment of magicians.

* The present ( but composed in 1847 and set to music in 1848 ) Italian National anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, popularly known as " Fratelli d ' Italia " ( Brothers of Italy ): " Il suon d ' ogni squilla / i vespri sonò " ( with reference to the past uprisings of the Italian people against foreign rulers, occurring again in these years ).

Moreover, past tyrants had tended ( and needed ) to be strong and able leaders, whereas the rulers appointed by the Persians were simply the representatives of the Persians.

It is a series of lectures for rulers through examples of past sages.

Unlike some past rulers who had adopted animal symbolism intending to project a violent, warlike sense of power, Kérékou's symbolic animal suggested skill and cleverness ; his motto suggested that he would keep the branch from breaking, but implicitly warned of what could happen to " the branch " if it was not " in the arms of the chameleon "— political chaos.

At each ruler's funeral, djeli recite the names and histories of all the past rulers, and also intervene in personal affairs of common people, as well as performing at social gatherings.

Various Hindu and Buddhist rulers in the past have been represented as deities, especially after death, from Thailand to Indonesia.

Because Manetho's transcriptions agree with many king-lists, it is generally accepted that he was reliant on one or more such lists, and it is not clear to what extent he was aware of the different pharaonic names of rulers long past ( and he had alternate names for some ).

It was the traditional seat of the past Meitei rulers of Manipur.

The Hall of Images in the royal palace exhibits lifelike images of the past rulers of Charn, all of them remarkably tall and incredibly beautiful, and all of them crowned and seated upon thrones.

He charged his priests of the ' Mortuary Cult ', who tended the mummified remains of the past rulers, to use their magics to develop a spell for everlasting life.

Some post-independence local officials trace their roots to past rulers, called raja, of Adonara ( proper ).

The Shivneri Fort is also the birthplace of Shivaji — one of the great past rulers of Maharashtra.

The series is a sequel to Miller's 1986 miniseries, The Dark Knight Returns, and tells story of an aged Bruce Wayne who comes out of hiding after three years of planning his return and training his followers, though his efforts bring him into conflict with the dictatorial rulers of the American Empire as well as an enigmatic enemy from his past.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

His cause was to commemorate the glory of her past and to incite her people to perpetuate it in the present.

Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.

The scarred, disfigured wrists of Mr. Jaggers' housekeeper are the tell-tale marks of her sinister past, for her master, coolly exhibiting them to his dinner guests, makes a point of the `` force of grip there is in these hands ''.

Her neighbors in the expensive Houston apartment building told reporters that the ash-blonde beauty had talked at times about her past as `` the Golden Girl of the Mickey Jelke trial ''.

Sarah swallowed past another kind of constriction in her throat.

At the end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.

`` She was mighty good to you past times, an' this'll fetch her ''.

She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.

She got up, standing uncertainly for a moment, then moving aside to let go past her, talking, a group of young men.

He could not cross the living room, brush past her, and bend down to retrieve the shorts.

Louisa May Alcott was born on her father's birthday, November 29, 1832, at a half hour past midnight.

Then, in probably the most interesting part of the hymn, Enheduanna herself steps forward in the first person to recite her own past glories, establishing her credibility, and explaining her present plight.

That night, as Fredrik remembers his past with Desiree, he sneaks out to see her ; the two share a happy but strained reunion, as they " Remember ".

and, now and in the future unlike in the past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of it will, by human action, render this planet less habitable by the human race.

Luther's complaints against the book carried past the point of scholarly critique and may reflect Luther's antisemitism, which is disputed, such as in the biography of Luther by Derek Wilson, which points out that Luther's anger at the Jews was not at their race but at their theology.

The Whole-Poland bike race Masters has been organized yearly in Chojnów for the past few years.

As per this sutta, in the past unskillful behavior was unknown among the human race.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race ; as well as the study of all history in time.

' There was a hollow space at the center of Kosinski that had resulted from denying his past ,' Sloan writes, ' and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star.

He went on to win gold medals in his other three events: the 10, 000 m, sprinting past Guillemot on the final curve and improving his personal best by over a minute, the cross country race, beating Sweden's Eric Backman, and the cross country team event where he helped Heikki Liimatainen and Teodor Koskenniemi defeat the British and Swedish teams.

The Ancients were a major race in the distant past ; their ruins dot planets throughout charted space and their artifacts are more technically advanced than those of any existing civilization.

The next scene shows Alvin as a huge group of RAGBRAI cyclists race past him.

According to The American Political Science Association, over the past 2004 presidential election, the women's vote may have well decided the outcome of the race.

In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an " oven " by the " Long Ears ," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.

In the past, most rally courses were not allowed to be scanned prior to the race, and the co-drivers used only maps supplied by the organization.

Pit-stops are not compulsory, as they have been in the past, however every team must put in a minimum of 50 litres per race.

A number of prominent members of the Christian right, including Jerry Falwell and Rousas John Rushdoony, have in the past supported segregation, with Falwell arguing in a 1958 sermon that integration will lead to the destruction of the white race.

In the past decade, advances in " on-road " vehicles have made their supension as adjustable as many full scale race cars, today.

While it was intended as a shift away from the racial inequities of America's past often associated with the historical views of the " Black race ", it largely became a simple replacement for the terms Black, Colored, Negro and the like, referring to any individual of dark skin color regardless of geographical descent.

This song proclaims that the human race ( the titular " everybody ") is capable of growing and reforming, but at the present, nobody is willing to learn from past mistakes, and has sacrificed wisdom for material comfort.

The water from Laurel Creek was diverted, or at least a portion of it, into a small lake or pond which served as a resivoir for a constant supply of water for a mill race which followed course directly past the saw mill then past the grain mill and returned to the stream approximately 1 / 2 mile from its origin.

For the past several years, the Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program ( YYFAP ) has run a ( rubber ) duck race in the Yachats estuary shortly following the parade.

The race begins with of cross country skiing on the Blue Mountain, followed by an bike ride, and ending with a run past Newspaper Rock.

Gobineau originally wrote that, given the past trajectory of civilization in Europe, white race miscegenation was inevitable and would result in growing chaos.

The race was held in Mexico City, Mexico at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, a track that has held Formula One and Champ Car races in the past.