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Within the following decade, further books appeared, each of which to some degree challenged the prevailing public perception.
In the United States, the Red Scare ( fear of communism ) caused public Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade.
Under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the government has the power to compulsorily acquire private land at the prevailing market rate for public purposes such as roads, highways, railways, dams, airports, etc.
For over 40 years, the church and the United States were at odds over the issue: the church defended the practice as a matter of religious freedom, while the federal government aggressively sought to eradicate it, consistent with prevailing public opinion.
News footage reflected the prevailing understandings of the media and public.
The " Martens clause " in the Hague Convention 1907 extended to the protection of " the principles of the laws of nations as established by and prevailing among civilized nations, by the laws of humanity, and the demands of public conscience ".
As the understanding of first aid and lifesaving measures has advanced, and the nature of public health risks has changed, the contents of first aid kits have changed to reflect prevailing understandings and conditions.
The prevailing public taboos against sex, and over-zealous authorities, made progress difficult for The Garden, but hundreds of sex boutiques now flourish across the country and " sex toy parties " modeled after " Tupperware parties " have become the latest rage ... illustrating the enormous shift in public attitudes since 1971.
But under the prevailing anti-communist rules, communists and KKE sympathizers were barred from the public sector and lived under a repressive anticommunist surveillance system.
In any case, since the 1905 law on the separation of the Church and State, the prevailing public doctrine on religion is laïcité – that is, neutrality of the state with respect to religious doctrine, and separation of the religious and the public spheres.
In February, 2001, Cipla stunned the HIV / AIDS and public health communities by announcing it would make its triple cocktail of antiretroviral drugs available in developing countries for $ 350 per patient per year, a tiny fraction of the prices prevailing internationally at the time.
Due to prevailing economic conditions, the Hawai ' i Maritime Center was closed to the public effective May 1, 2009.
Hence, and elsewhere, on publication day, in the May 1996 edition of the Lingua Franca journal, in the article “ A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ”, Prof. Sokal announced that his transformative hermeneutics article was a parody, submitted “ to test the prevailing intellectual standards ”, concluding that, as an academic publication, Social Text ignored the requisite intellectual rigor of verification and “ felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject .” Moreover, as a public intellectual, Prof. Sokal said his hoax was an action protesting against the contemporary tendency towards obscurantism — abstruse, esoteric, and vague writing in the social sciences:
The federal government, along with many state governments, likewise require employers to pay the prevailing wage, which typically reflects the standards established by unions ' collective bargaining agreements in the area, to workers on public works projects.
Three years after being assigned HOS public housing units, owners are allowed to obtain a certificate from the Housing Authority to place their homes in the HOS Secondary Market, without paying the subsidised land premiums ( normally 35 – 50 per cent discount to the prevailing market ).
Despite the prevailing public and political attitudes in Switzerland, some higher-ranking officers within the Swiss Army had pro-Nazi sympathies: notably Colonel Arthur Fonjallaz and Colonel Eugen Bircher, who led the Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband.
Fear of communism caused public Congressional hearings in both houses in Congress whilst anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the period.
designed the building in Rundbogenstil style, then the prevailing style for public building in Germany.
A public service may sometimes have the characteristics of a public good ( being non-rivalrous and non-excludable ), but most are merit goods, that is, services which may ( according to prevailing social norms ) be under-provided by the market.
A practicing psychiatrist, he has also authored and co-authored numerous and influential books on mental health, counseling, and the improvement of schools, teaching, and several publications advocating a public health approach to mental health versus the prevailing " medical " model.
The short ratio ( or short interest ratio, SIR ) for a public company is a metric signaling prevailing investors ' sentiment.

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The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.
Many Oriental philosophies equate weakness with femininity and strength with masculinity ; this is not the prevailing attitude in paganism and Wicca.
Though Päätalo's first books got favourable reviews, the prevailing critical attitude to his writing soon turned negative while his popularity remained steady.
Afterwards Montmorency begun to support peace with the Holy Roman Emperor, against the prevailing attitude of the court.
Concerned about the prevailing " climate of unexpectation " for women at that time, Bunting deliberately sought to reverse that negative attitude by establishing the essential gifts of an Institute fellowship: time, financial support, a room of one's own, membership in a vital community of women, and access to all Radcliffe and Harvard resources.
# The result is a spiral process which prompts other individuals to perceive the changes in opinion and follow suit, until one opinion has become established as the prevailing attitude while the other opinion will be pushed back and rejected by everybody with the exception of the hard core that nevertheless sticks to that opinion.
Due to poor police work and the prevailing casual attitude toward suspects ' civil rights, the crimes in the Wylie-Hoffert case were pinned on a young African-American male, George Whitmore, Jr., who had been arrested on a separate assault charge.
According to designer Francis Millet, " The head of Lincoln was selected because it is the only thing which can be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment now happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War, and the portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war.
Trudeau was also admired for his laid-back attitude and his celebrity relationships ; in that word's prevailing use at the time, describing a modern, hip and happening person, he was described as a swinger.
Kaplinski supposes that anti-Russian sentiment could disappear as quickly as anti-German sentiment did in 1940, however he believes the prevailing sentiment in Estonia is sustained by Estonia's politicians who employ " the use of anti-Russian sentiments in political combat ," together with the " tendentious attitude of the media.
One reason for this, according to David Hyman, a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, is that the historically prevailing attitude in the medical profession is one of “ fidelity to patients ”.
Praetorius was one of the first to describe the terrible situation of the prisoners and to protest against torture, and with his " Bericht " Praetorius publicly objected to the prevailing attitude in the church ( a view held by Roman Catholics as well as Protestants such as Martin Luther and John Calvin ) on the torture and burning of witches.
The mukhi also represents the prevailing male attitude in the village: women are mostly confined to their homes and have no education.
Ignoring the prevailing attitude, Civitans adopted service to the developmentally disabled as a major organizational emphasis in 1952.
In " The Yiddish are coming " Josh Kun sums up the atmosphere of the time with the following: " As historian Howard Sachar has noted, the prevailing attitude after World War II was a fear that anything that promoted a " separate identity as Jews ... would somehow lend credence to Hitler's racial theories.

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Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.
so that, although not as eager as I once was to be disapproved of, I can still resist prevailing opinions.
The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.
Mahayana Buddhism was no exception to these prevailing magical concepts.
" It was the prevailing opinion among his friends that Capp's Swiftian satire was, to some degree, a creatively channeled, compensatory response to his disability.
However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.
In the context of the prevailing balance of power, the emperor's crucial goal was to preserve Ethiopian independence.
The prevailing method of estimating the length of a border ( or coastline ) was to lay out n equal straight-line segments of length ℓ with dividers on a map or aerial photograph.
The outcome was closely fought, with the Communists finally prevailing with superior military tactics.
Photius compared Clement's treatise, which like his other works was highly syncretic, featuring ideas of Hellenistic, Jewish and Gnostic origin, unfavourably against the prevailing orthodoxy of the 9th century.
But for some 16 intervening centuries of ongoing anatomical study, CSF remains unmentioned in the literature, perhaps because of the prevailing autopsy technique, which involved cutting off the head, thereby removing evidence of the CSF before the brain was examined.
The prevailing opinion at the time was that one should first write a program and then provide a mathematical proof of correctness.
At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The " Carnage " mix was, by comparison, altogether more conventional, featuring enhanced string treatments, a percussive midpoint flurry of vocal samples ( from Allen and the group's B-side interview ), but broadly following the prevailing instrumental-vocal 12-inch structural paradigm.
In ancient China, the prevailing belief was that the Earth was flat and square, while the heavens were round, an assumption virtually unquestioned until the introduction of European astronomy in the 17th century.
Control of the island was disputed by Great Britain and France in the 18th century, with the British ultimately prevailing.
Gunpowder was, according to prevailing academic consensus, discovered in the 9th century in China, attributed to Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality.
Germany was a world leader because of its prevailing " corporatist mentality ", its strong bureaucratic tradition, and the encouragement of the government.
" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).
It was innovative for the time, in being both the first ever treaty for a truly international court ( as opposed to a mere arbitral tribunal ), and in providing individuals with access to the court, going against the prevailing doctrines of international law at the time, according to which only states had rights and duties under international law.
This conception of the reign of resurrected and translated saints with Christ on this earth during the millennium-popularly known as chiliasm — was the increasingly prevailing belief of this time.
" However, what Climacus means by the aforementioned statement, is that Hegel, in the Philosophy of Right, believed the best solution was to surrender one's individuality to the customs of the State, identifying right and wrong in view of the prevailing bourgeois morality.

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