The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

Leadership is lacking in our society because it has no legitimate place to develop.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ontological status of society thus is constituted by the psychological status of society's members.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.

Distributism sees the family of two parents and their child or children as the central and primary social unit of human ordering and the principal unit of a functioning distributist society and civilization.

Opposition to pollution, use of nuclear power, NATO military action, and certain aspects of industrialised society were principal campaign issues.

The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government.

The opening lines of the pamphlet set forth the principal basis of Marxism, that " The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Josiah Wedgwood, for example, is described by some commentators as being one of five " principal members " of the society, while others consider that he " cannot be recognized as full member " at all.

The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning " to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will tend to prevent the decline of a society which I hope will be lasting.

Pohnpeian historic society was highly structured into five tribes, various clans and sub-clans ; each tribe headed by two principal chiefs.

) The motif of a secret superman society in the latter work, however, is not mentioned in Friday, where the heroine is an artificial person, and is not part of a secret society ( the principal reason to be secret about her artificialness is to avoid discrimination ).

Separated from the principal Japanese centres of commerce, politics, and population by several hundred kilometres and the Ōu and Dewa mountain ranges to the east, Akita remained largely isolated from Japanese society until after the year 600.

Gray argues that their problem is class consciousness: the working classes can act in a vulgar way, and the upper class can be silly ; but the middle class is or at least considers itself the moral backbone of society — a notion whose validity Coward did not really want to question or jeopardise, as the middle classes were Coward's principal audience.

The principal role of the angakkuq in Inuit society was to advise and remind people of the rituals and taboos they needed to obey to placate the spirits, since he was held to be able to see and contact them.

In " Mangaian society ", the " ritual system " to become " the principal chief, Te Mangaia ," " emphasized the worship of Rongo " ( Kirch 29 ).

In 1843 the society appointed its first principal conductor, the Swiss-born J. Zeugheer Herrmann, who continued in this role until his death in 1865.

During the time Benedict was principal conductor, the society flourished both in artistic and financial terms.

Following the resignation of Frederic Cowen, the society did not appoint another principal conductor until 1942.

From 1955 the society had joint principal conductors, John Pritchard and Efrem Kurtz.

Musically the society was also entering a period of greater security with the appointment in 1987 of Libor Pešek as principal conductor.

In 2009, Petrenko's title was changed from principal conductor to chief conductor, and he extended his contract with the society until 2015.

In a criminal justice system, these distinct agencies operate together both under the rule of law and as the principal means of maintaining the rule of law within society.

Selling one's mother for gold-pressed latinum, the principal form of legal tender, is an act that would be looked on with admiration in Ferengi society.

On various occasions Marti conveyed his deep admiration for the immigrant-based society, " whose principal aspiration he interpreted as being to construct a truly modern country, based upon hard work and progressive ideas.

At first he contented himself with enumerating the chief current views in literature and art and indicating very slightly the contents of the principal new books, but gradually his criticisms became more extended and trenchant, and he touched on nearly every subject — political, literary, artistic, social and religious — that interested the Parisian society of the time.