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They are conservative to a degree, yet insatiably curious and ready to inquire into and even to adopt new ways: to visit all tribes, whether friends or enemies ; to speak strange tongues, sing strange songs, and marry strange wives.
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They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
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They were refuted in this claim by David J. Schneider, who wrote that " correlations between prejudice and political conservative are reduced virtually to zero when controls for SDO are instituted ".
They were an extremely heterogeneous lot that included liberal intellectuals, conservative clergymen, and representatives from Guayaquil's successful business community.
They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor, which had more conservative reputations.
They advocated a clash with Giscard d ' Estaing because they thought his policy bewildered the conservative electorate.
They seemed to represent, to conservative forces, the last bastion of ‘ order ’ against the ‘ chaos ’ that was taking over the country.
They have been criticized for their association with Dominionism, a term which describes politically active conservative Christians who are believed to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action.
They were opposites: she was short, open, gregarious, sociable, and liberal, while he was tall, secretive, shy, quiet, introspective, and conservative.
They claimed that Baker, a former Democrat and a Bush political intimate, was undermining conservative initiatives in the administration.
They claim that the positions now taken by mainstream Catholics — even conservative Catholics — would have been considered " modernist " or " liberal " at the time of the Council, and that they themselves hold positions that were then considered " conservative " or " traditional ".
They were often joined by muckraking journalists such as Steffens, Phillips, and Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis to discuss issues and strategies to limit conservative power in the legislature and the judiciary.
They attribute his shift in position as a reaction to the relationship between the New Deal senators and the conservative 1930s Court, which ruled much of the New Deal legislation unconstitutional.
They were also armed with western rifles and modern artillery, which showed that the conservative faction of Empress Cixi were willing to use western technology.
They called themselves " radicals " and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described " conservatives " ( in the South ) and " Liberals " ( in the North ).
They were more conservative, supporting organized religion and traditional forms of governance, and excluding women from leadership.
They are social-economic liberal conservative / conservative liberal and moderate, culturally religious conservatives and internationalist national conservatives.
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