Speaking as a non-Jew I believe that its primary contribution is in the realm of future policy.

It is beyond the province of this epilogue to cover policy questions of such depth and range.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

But their freedom of policy is limited by the pattern of predisposition with which they and the people around them enter the crisis.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

Only when a concert of nations rests on the positive foundations of shared goals and values is it likely to form a viable instrument of long-range policy.

He feels, therefore, that to seek a discontinuity in the arms policy of the United States is the least risky path our government can take.

During the slow buildup, the essence of a policy or a man is concealed under embroidered details, fine words, strutting gestures.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

Foreign policy is the total involvement of the American people with peoples and governments abroad.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.

His first thought is about the question itself: Is there a question here for American foreign policy, and, if so, what is it??

In the first place our business is foreign policy, and it is the business of the Presidential leadership and his appointees in the Department to consider the domestic political aspects of a problem.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

the other is the paramount importance in married life of deliberate and thoughtful self-control ''.

Communist political warfare, we must remember, is waged insidiously and in deliberate stages.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

Apostasy ( turning from Christ ) is only committed through a deliberate, willful rejection of Jesus and renunciation of saving faith.

In their view, injury caused by carelessness is like injury caused by deliberate action.

This is a deliberate destruction of the vision of any literal reference to the place.

However it is now thought this was probably a deliberate change in composition and overall the use of brass increases over this period making up around 40 % of all copper alloys used in the Roman world by the 4th century AD.

It is a deliberate respelling of bite to avoid accidental mutation to bit.

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.

The traditional approach toward protecting agriculture, food, and water: focusing on the natural or unintentional introduction of a disease is being strengthened by focused efforts to address current and anticipated future biological weapons threats that may be deliberate, multiple, and repetitive.

The term " conspiracy theory " is itself the object of a type of conspiracy theory, which argues that those using the term are manipulating their audience to disregard the topic under discussion, either in a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, or as dupes of more deliberate conspirators.

Peck believes that conscious community building is a process of deliberate design based on the knowledge and application of certain rules.

* An intentional community is a deliberate residential community with a much higher degree of social communication than other communities.

Since pure consequentialism holds that an action is to be judged solely by its result, most consequentialist theories hold that a deliberate action is no different from a deliberate decision not to act.

This contrasts with the Acts and Omissions Doctrine, which is upheld by some medical ethicists and some religions: it asserts there is a significant moral distinction between acts and deliberate non-actions which lead to the same outcome.

Another motive for deliberate errors is cartographic " vandalism ": a mapmaker wishing to leave his or her mark on the work.

In some senses, agnosticism is a stance about the difference between belief and knowledge, rather than about any specific claim or belief.

In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and / or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written ; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Religious skepticism is not the same as atheism or agnosticism, though these often do involve skeptical attitudes toward religion and philosophical theology ( for example, towards divine omnipotence ).

As early as the fifth century BC, Protagoras, who is reputed to have been exiled from Athens because of his agnosticism about the existence of the gods, said that " Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

The claim that the existence of any deity is unknown or unknowable is agnosticism.

Some believe that the question of the existence of any god is most likely unascertainable or unknowable ( agnosticism ).

In this sense, solipsism is logically related to agnosticism in religion: the distinction between believing you do not know, and believing you could not have known.

The Republic is based on the principle of laïcité, that is of freedom of religion ( including of agnosticism and atheism ) enforced by the Jules Ferry laws and the 1905 law on the separation of the State and the Church, enacted at the beginning of the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ).

Barlaam's views-that we cannot really know Who the Holy Spirit is exactly ( an outgrowth of which is agnosticism ), that the ancient Greek philosophers are superior to the Prophets and the Apostles ( since reason is above the vision of the Apostles ), that the light of the Transfiguration is something which is created and can be undone, that the hesychastic way of life ( i. e. the purification of the heart and the unceasing noetic prayer ) is not essential-are views which express a supra-scholastic and, subsequently, a secularised point of view of theology.

Uruguay, where agnosticism and atheism is common, has a strong church and state separation policy.

Other, more qualified types of nontheism are often known as agnosticism: strong or positive agnosticism is the belief that it is impossible for humans to know whether or not any deities exist.

It is a more precise opinion than weak or negative agnosticism, which is the belief that the existence or nonexistence of any deities is unknown but not necessarily unknowable.