I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

Yet they have accepted most of the extant `` welfare state '' provisions for health, security, and the regulation of economic affairs, and they overwhelmingly approve of the traditional `` liberalism '' of the Bill of Rights.

For my part I find it difficult to conceive such a state of affairs.

Citing the advances of Communist power in recent years, Sir Anthony observed: `` This very grave state of affairs will continue until the free nations accept together the reality of the danger that confronts them and unite their policies and resources to meet it ''.

Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure is more important than aiding them economically, E. M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the World Affairs Council Monday night.

The only way out of this state of affairs is agreement to abolish nuclear weapons ; ;

That remained the state of affairs until the late 1960s when Harald Loe ( at the time a professor at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark ) demonstrated that a chlorhexidine compound could prevent the build-up of dental plaque.

On the day of the funeral, Peter sent Alexei a stern letter, urging him to take interest in the affairs of the state.

The discipline of aesthetics, which originated in the eighteenth century, mistook this transient state of affairs for a revelation of the permanent nature of art.

This somewhat unsatisfactory state of affairs awaits resolution with DNA based methods.

His imprisonment made him aloof in regard to state affairs and malleable to the designs of his advisors.

He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs.

BOEN is a vehicle for governments and heads of state to invest in UK companies ( subject to approval from the Secretary of State ), providing they undertake " not to influence the affairs of the company ".

Feature films such as Enemy of the State and Shooter, among scores of others, propound conspiracies as a normal state of affairs, having dropped the idea of questioning conspiracies typical of movies of eras prior to about 1970.

Another consequentialist version is motive consequentialism which looks if the state of affairs that results from the motive to choose an action is better or at least as good as each of the alternative state of affairs that would have resulted from alternative actions.

Agent-neutral consequentialism ignores the specific value a state of affairs has for any particular agent.

One would think to listen to him that the Government had no responsibility for the state of world affairs ... The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace.

The moral and civil values that Goldoni promotes in his plays are those of rationality, civility, humanism, the importance of the rising middle-class, a progressive stance to state affairs, honor and honesty.

This new state of affairs was unacceptable to Constantius, who felt that as the only surviving son of Constantine the Great, the position of emperor was his alone.

It made substantially the same division of power between the central and state governments, and among the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

Since the recognition of Israel as a nation state, claims are made in many cases which identify the claimant as a member of the new body politic.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

Fortunately it spared us from the usual spate of silly resolutions which in the past have made Georgia look like anything but `` the empire state of the South ''.

Unsuccessful efforts have been made to replace high mileage allowances with state automobiles.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

-- Richard J. Hughes made his Morris County debut in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination here last night with a pledge `` to carry the issues to every corner of the state ''.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

By contrast, the National Union Party was united and energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.

In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.

Under the heading of " places ," his class explores where texts were made, read, and listened to, including monasteries, schools and universities, offices of the state, the shops of merchants and booksellers, printing houses, theaters, libraries, studies, and closets.

The proposed admission to the union of California as a state set off a debate as to whether a prohibition of slavery should be made a condition of admission.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

Laws are made in a 17-member Legislative Assembly that has all state and local government functions.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

The CMSE is made up of only one state, São Paulo, and is in charge of protecting the industrial base of the country.

In the 1929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment !, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.

A further distinction is sometimes made in the ordering of the letters, to represent the order of the episodes, where the patient's normal state is euthymic, interrupted by episodes of mania followed by depression ( MD ) or vice versa ( DM ).

: These views were made clear in a disclaimer printed in the Factbook: " Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been recognized as a state by the United States.