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People were ordered from their homes and told to lock all windows and doors, by police, at least an hour prior to President Banda passing by ... we were expected to wave.
Foot says " People talk, for instance, about the ' binding force ' of morality, but it is not clear what this means if not that we feel ourselves unable to escape.
People who say they believe that God exists, but who also believe that we cannot have any concept of what God is, except by a very unusual sort of experience, are known as mystics and their view is called mysticism.
People not really guilty are likely to be arrested and railroaded through their hearings .... We appear to be attempting to repress a political party .... By such methods we drive underground and make dangerous what was not dangerous before.
In 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang remarked that the Cultural Revolution represented the ' dangers of democracy ', remarking " People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution [...], when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place ".
One source is commentaries to " A System of Ethics " by Friederich Paulsen ( 1917-1918 ) where he expressed: " I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one action has to be benefiting others ... Morality does not have to be defined in relation to others ... People like me want to ... satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes.
The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.
These tell us, that several of their Ancestors were white People, and could talk in a Book, as we do ; the Truth of which is confirm'd by gray Eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others.
These tell us, that several of their Ancestors were white People, and could talk in a Book, as we do ; the Truth of which is confirm'd by gray Eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others.
He and Corbett always got on, with Barker noting " People refuse to believe that we don't have rows, tensions, private wars.
" People want the reunion ," and " No one will pay respect to what any of us do until we get the reunion out of the way.
People say country but I never thought we were very country at all.
It was called by People magazine " America's hottest musical turn-on since Olivia Newton John demanded we get " Physical ".
People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their skills and experience from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit ,” he said.
People who break the rules set by society and get punished may be behaving in the only way they can, but if we did not hold them accountable for their actions, people would behave even worse than they do with the threat of punishment.
the Gog and Magog ( People ) do great mischief on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us and them?
In other organizations we may note similar names which are used, such as the Young People ’ s League, Christian Endeavor, BYPU, etc .” Written by the Bishop O. T.
And so, among nations suffering economic crises, we continue to hear calls for democracy, calls for reform, in many languages – People Power, doi moi, reformasi.
Malik was vehemently opposed to bid ' ah and even directed others not to extend the Islamic greeting of Salam to the people of bidah, stating, " how evil are the People of Innuendo, we do not give them felicitations.
Now therefore we, the People of Formosa, are irrevocably resolved to die before we will serve the enemy.
And we have in Council determined to convert the whole island of Formosa into a Republican state, and that the administration of all our State affairs shall be organized and carried on by the deliberations and decisions of Officers publicly elected by us the People.
On 23 December 1680, Shaftesbury gave another fiery pro-Exclusion speech in the Lords, in the course of which he attacked the Duke of York, expressed mistrust of Charles II, and urged the parliament to not approve any taxes until " the King shall satisfie the People, that what we give is not to make us Slaves and Papists.
Throughout history, Adam Smith observed, we find the workings of " the vile maxim of the masters of mankind ": " All for ourselves, and nothing for other People.

we and United
During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.
And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.
If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??
With this enlarged role in mind, I should like to make a few suggestions: What we in the United States do or do not do will make a very large difference in what happens in the rest of the world.
But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.
In presenting it to other governments and to the United Nations, we could propose that every nation consider the formation of its own peace corps and that the United Nations sponsor the idea and form an international coordinating committee.
From the records we keep -- Susan is the only Junior who has placed in the Junior Classes in both United States and Canada.
The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.
The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.
Then we have informed a large number of our crew that when they reach the United States, they will be punished but that in the meanwhile, they may run loose and are expected to perform their jobs in good order.
Essentially we need local people to sign up to this campaign simply because the United Nations demand it.
However, the 9 / 11 Commission found that although " former Sudanese officials claim that Sudan offered to expel Bin Laden to the United States ", " we have not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim.
Stanford University historian Jack N. Rakove stated that " The voluminous records we have for the constitutional debates of the late 1780s contain no significant references to the Iroquois " and stated that there are ample European precedents to the democratic institutions of the United States.
When asked if the WikiLeaks of 2010 would damage American relations with other countries, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted that " governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets.
One CDC physician involved in the United States ' DDT spraying campaign said of the effort that " we kicked a dying dog.
Additionally, we assess against Crain a damage award of $ 2000 in favor of the appellee United States.
Most sources that we do have available come from United States agencies such as the Agency for International Development ( USAID ).
" House representative Thomas Sisson stated, " The purpose of this bill -- and we are all in sympathy with it -- is to prevent the use of opium in the United States, destructive as it is to human happiness and human life.

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