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The term gained widespead acceptance by the 1990s in academic discourse ; despite originally being used by the perpetrators during the Yugoslav Wars, the term is now considered " the widely accepted scholarly term used to describe the systematic and violent removal of undesired ethnic groups from a given territory.
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Whenever the book was written and whatever the historicity of the events recounted in it, clearly by the time it was written the term " Yehudim " ( יהודים-Jews ) already gained a meaning quite close to what it means up to the present — i. e. an ethnic-religious group, scattered in many countries, organised in autonomous communities and a target of hatred.
The United States of America gained overseas territories after the Spanish-American War for which the term " American Empire " was coined.
The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.
The term gained popularity with the advent of the X Games, a made-for-television collection of events.
By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.
The use of the term Islamism was at first " a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize " with new Islamic movements ; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly publicized acts of violence.
The term impressionists quickly gained favour with the public.
The term gained much currency in the 1940s, promoted by groups which evolved into the National Conference of Christians and Jews, to fight antisemitism by expressing a more inclusive idea of American values rather than just Christian or Protestant.
As the term ' knight ' became increasingly confined to denoting a social rank the military role of fully armoured cavalryman gained a separate term, ' man-at-arms '.
The term has gained popularity in the English-speaking world since the mid-twentieth century but currently there is no accepted opinion, nor a notable debate if a ' second order philosophy ' is, or could be, something different from ' plain philosophy '.
In post – World War II usage the word " propaganda " more typically refers to political or nationalist uses of these techniques or to the promotion of a set of ideas, since the term had gained a pejorative meaning.
This is probably because the term “ nanotechnology ” gained serious attention just before that time, following its use by Drexler in his 1986 book, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, which cited Feynman, and in a cover article headlined " Nanotechnology ", published later that year in a mass-circulation science-oriented magazine, OMNI.
The term has gained some currency in sociobiology, where it refers, analogously, to a mating system in which one female forms more or less permanent bonds to more than one male.
As the term " quarterback " gained acceptance in the 1930s, it originally referred to the player's position relative to other members of the offensive backfield.
As has already been noted, rhetor was the Greek term for orator: A rhetor was a citizen who regularly addressed juries and political assemblies and who was thus understood to have gained some knowledge about public speaking in the process, though in general facility with language was often referred to as logôn techne, " skill with arguments " or " verbal artistry.
Neither term gained wide acceptance until decades later ; scientist became a common term in the late 19th century in the United States and around the turn of the 20th century in Great Britain.
Although not a new term, it gained prominence during rescue, cleanup and ongoing reconstruction efforts.
The term safer sex in Canada and the United States has gained greater use by health workers, reflecting that risk of transmission of sexually transmitted infections in various sexual activities is a continuum.
Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.
After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term " comedy " thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.
Harriet Vaughan Cheney used it in her 1824 novel A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six, and the term also gained popularity with the 1825 publication of Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Although the 1800 election was a close one, Jefferson steadily gained popularity during his term.
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Many associate the term " born again " with the revelation of a new concept, or an experience of conversion, defined as mental assent to the acceptance of Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior ; though some believe that this experience or mental assent ( See Gnosticism ) is not alone sufficient to merit Christian salvation.
At that council he voted for acceptance of the term homoousios, having been finally convinced that there was no better alternative.
Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.
The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.
Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.
The BioLogos Foundation, an organization that promotes the idea of theistic evolution, uses the term " evolutionism " to describe " the atheistic worldview that so often accompanies the acceptance of biological evolution in public discourse.
In the context of the age and period it held the meaning of seeking or forming part of a cultural entity, that of iudea, the Greek derivative of Persian Yehud, and can be compared with hellenismos, meaning acceptance of Hellenic cultural norms ( the conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabeean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos ).
The acceptance of the term in Australia is illustrated by 13 February 2008 formal apology to the Stolen Generations, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and passed by both houses of the Parliament of Australia.
However, there remains opposition to acceptance of the validity of the term " Stolen Generations ".
While it is certain that the Harvard Mark II operators did not coin the term " bug ", it has been suggested that the incident contributed to the widespread use and acceptance of the term within the computer software lexicon.
that commonly called ' Eulerian circles ,' has met with any general acceptance ..." The first to use the term " Venn diagram " was Clarence Irving Lewis in 1918, in his book " A Survey of Symbolic Logic ".
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a number of internet communities started to use the term ' LGBTQ ,' the ' Q ' standing for ' queer ,' to represent forms of sexuality that fall outside of the original LGBT framework, in order to promote awareness and acceptance of these forms of sexuality.
Before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, there was no common non-derogatory vocabulary for non-heterosexuality ; the closest such term, " third gender ", traces back to the 1860s but never gained wide acceptance in the United States.
Although the LGBT community has seen much controversy regarding universal acceptance of different member groups ( bisexual and transgender individuals, in particular, have sometimes been marginalized by the larger LGBT community ), the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion.
However the term " consuetudinary " can also apply to areas of international law where certain standards have been nearly universal in their acceptance as correct bases of action-in example, laws against piracy or slavery ( see hostis humani generis ).
Harold Pinter referred to the term in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
In 1783 he published a paper on the temperature at which mercury freezes and in that paper made use of the idea of latent heat, although he did not use the term because he believed that it implied acceptance of a material theory of heat.
The acceptance of five years as the maximum term for any single Dáil was reconfirmed by section 33 of the Electoral Act 1992, which states " The same Dáil shall not continue for a longer period than five years from the date of its first meeting.
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It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.
Helen Deutsch informed us ( The Psychology Of Women, Vol. 2,, 434 ) that in all cultures `` the term ' stepmother ' automatically evokes deprecatory implications '', a conclusion accepted by many.
Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.
by this term he means to ridicule their professions of acting in the interest of the Church despite their own education and manner of life -- a gibe, in other words, at the `` Presbyterianism '' in Harley's family and at Bolingbroke's reputed impiety.
Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.
Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.
An important operation in soliciting industrial locations involves what we term `` Missionary calls '' by one of this Division's industrial promotion specialists.
Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.
Long term loans have been reduced by $395,000 to $2,461,000.
They like it and would supply most of the capital because of the long term leases by strong oil companies.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.
This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.
The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.
The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.
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