| 单词 | polity |
| 例句 | Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Olmec society was surprisingly unaffected by the collapse of its greatest polity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maya polities were not large enough to maintain standing armies; instead both Kaan and Oxwitza’ mustered short-term militiamen to fight wars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This Ptolemaic Egypt is an exquisite corpse, a dead polity that is somehow still ambulatory, only waiting for a stake to be put through its heart by the legions of Augustus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z At any one time a few larger polities dominated the dozens or scores of small chiefdoms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In this Attic roughneck polity, you can think of Plato—with his radical idealism, intellectual rigidity, and hatred of the mob— as a sort of ancient precursor to Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By the time of Christ's birth, two of these early polities had become dominant: Pukara on the northern, Peruvian edge of the lake and Tiwanaku on the opposite, Bolivian side. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some polities may have disintegrated beneath the climatic assault, but Wari thrived. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z European microorganisms were slow to penetrate the Yucatan Peninsula, where most of the Maya polities were too small to readily play off against each other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A thousand years later the village had grown to become the center of a large polity, also known as Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Whereas Strachey despised the commercial and political might the industrial revolution made possible, current observers look at our own sclerotic polity and contrast it with the Victorians' towering ambitions. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z In these half-historical soap operas, the heroes are decisive, brave, glorious, but the polities they lead are fragile, teetering, menaced by outsiders. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z It would be delightful if a bright young person could singlehandedly heal our broken polity. Drama about Antonin Scalia plays out like 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Coachella, whose lineup repeats next weekend, is a self-contained media polity, streaming and photographing itself like crazy, tweeting to the end of time. Music Review: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Celebrates 15 Years 2014-04-14T21:55:59Z His absence was yet another assertion of the anti-Black hostility and xenophobia fouling the polity with renewed vigor. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z So the colleges draped a raiment of sexual and racial diversity over their preparation of a global managerial class that no longer answers to or cares for any republican polity or moral code. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z When all is well in the polity, they are relatively scarce on the ground. What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The prevailing polity, shored up by a attic-bats electoral system, is the centre, trending right. Being indie in politics 2010-05-21T09:30:00Z Our politics and our polity will only be rescued when we all stop assuming that those who disagree with us are stupid, ignorant and/or immoral. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Muhammad used religion to unite the tribes into a larger polity. “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Over coffee at a cafe near his home in Inwood Mr. Miranda, 31, talked about the early American polity, getting advice from Stephen Sondheim and other subjects that are trending in his world. Arts & Leisure: Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Rapping on Alexander Hamilton 2012-01-06T16:00:00Z They also learn how to be poster boys and girls for “diversity” and merit without making themselves seriously answerable to any republican polity or moral code. New Republic/Ivy League hypocrisy watch: We all went to elite schools, but you shouldn’t! 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Beyond that lay the public life of the polity; politics began where the economy ended. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Grievance is a powerful motivating force of the American polity, which includes centuries of both legitimate and imaginary grievances. Perspective | There’s no hope for America unless we can pity ourselves 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Every polity in the Four Kingdoms generates magic, which wells up from the intentions and labors of its people and invests local rulers with hereditary, semi-sentient spirits called Immanents. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Another way to see it is that our visual art has become more essayistic in nature—which is to say: sermonic, assertive, usefully relevant to a polity ever more prone to the bizarre. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And, given that the virtues of the manse are not dissimilar to the virtues of the mosque, the gurdwara or the Women's Institute, it's a multicultural, shared, open polity. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z But I think that this play brings out the fact that there can be a conflict between the philosopher and the polity. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The parallels to world politics here are surprisingly strong — after all, sovereign states are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, so national polities also possess some immaturity. Stop comparing everything to “Girls”! 2013-05-17T22:45:00Z The survival of a moderate conservatism, a conservatism that accepts and is comfortable with modernity and liberal democracy, is indispensable to the stability of our polity as a whole. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Suddenly, as an individual in relation to this society, and the polity, you can see, "Oh, this, it's important, this thing called human rights." Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z When the action shifts forward 150 years, an equally polarized polity is on view. Critic?s Notebook: Nothing Left to Lose, or Too Dark to Contemplate 2010-09-07T22:17:00Z It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z In various sectors of the economy and polity, the working class benefited from power-sharing arrangements with business and government, often the result of wartime mobilization. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z In 2018, "Patriot Act" was awarded a Peabody for its “important new take on politics and popular culture and giving voice to politically engaged young people in a diverse American polity.” Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z It marks another welcome rejection of the "community of communities" multiculturalism of the late 1990s, as we rediscover the ties that bind in a liberal polity. The Virtuous Citizen: Patriotism in a Multicultural Society by Tim Soutphommasane – review 2012-09-29T23:05:09Z Experts on authoritarianism often argue that would-be strongmen learn what a polity will except, in part, based on the level of resistance their power-grabs face. Time for Judge Chutkan to put a stop to Trump's antics 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z This type of speech is not an invention by Trump; it has always been the style adopted by despots to affect the polity. How Trump's speech is warping MAGA minds 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In a less distracted democracy, the actual well-being of the polity would be at the heart of the debate. Media ignores real issues affecting voters — focuses on Biden's age and Trump's crimes instead 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z You describe four main kinds of elites — military, ideological, administrative and plutocratic — any of which may predominate in a given polity and even persist across cycles. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z It also facilitated movement and exchange within the Islamic world and helped to unify Muslims as individual polities rose, fell, and were replaced. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Although Sogdiana was never unified into a single polity and was almost always ruled by larger states, its long exposure to so many different cultures produced a multilingual population of merchants and skilled craftspeople. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “We had an open polity, a multitude of press. Those things had not been seen in a long, long time in a place like Iraq.” 20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z The Ukrainians were recognized as a distinct people, and their language and culture received state support in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the founding polities of the Soviet Union. Review | Zelensky’s heroic wartime leadership has deep historical roots 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Wood is a “teaching pastor” whose role in preaching from the pulpit transgresses Baptist polity. Higher Ground: Supreme Court asked to protect workers’ right to day of worship 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z This map shows the different polities of medieval West Africa. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Around the turn of the fourteenth century, the center of medieval southern African civilization shifted northward where a new polity emerged: Great Zimbabwe. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z That is how our polity is intended to work. 'A very dangerous course': What Saddleback Church ouster means for Southern Baptists 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The implication of this lie and social fiction is that, both implicitly and explicitly, Black and brown people are deemed to be not fit for full and equal citizenship in the polity. The science behind why conservatives are so easily triggered 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z She said she and other survivors have had to become experts in navigating SBC politics and polity — which can be complicated and slow-moving. Southern Baptists passed abuse reforms. Now they have to make them stick. 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z As competition rose among the European powers to establish trading posts along the West African coast, tensions flared among African polities as they either engaged in or resisted the growing trade in enslaved people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z These Chinese records further indicate that many early Vietnamese groups spoke a multitude of languages and were divided into as many as one hundred small polities, kingdoms, tribal clans, and autonomous villages. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Church of Scotland, the state church of Scotland, is Presbyterian in heritage and polity. Opinion | Don’t mix up these churches 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In this context, the supposed weakness of Ukraine’s prewar polity — its corrupt politicians and feeble central state — are recast as strengths. Review | A new book on the war in Ukraine tries to tell a story in progress 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z After the October Revolution in 1917, Ukraine cycled through a succession of short-lived polities before its absorption into the Soviet Union. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “As long as it’s a divided polity and a multiparty coalition, all foreign countries have chances to meddle.” Maoist leader Prachanda emerges as Nepal’s prime minister 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z While it is widely accepted that the Babylonians laid waste to the Judean polity in 586 B.C., some researchers, relying on historical and archaeological evidence, argue that the invaders were not solely responsible. Archaeologists Devise a Better Clock for Biblical Times 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “It does not change the fundamentals of a dysfunctional failed state and totally ineffective polity.” Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The new Latino polity is thoroughly Made in the USA. Opinion | Why the Latino vote will surprise us for the next 20 years 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z "Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious polities," she wrote. 'Dear oh dear': Six moments from six chaotic weeks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious polities. Suella Braverman: Home Secretary's resignation letter in full 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The 137-year-old Congress, which helped win India's independence from colonial power Britain and then dominated politics for decades, has long championed a secular polity. India's Congress elects first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “Though he is a well-educated church historian and an expert on SBC history and polity, Bart is not an elitist,” Finn added. Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists’ president 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z “Though he is a well-educated church historian and an expert on SBC history and polity, Bart is not an elitist,” Finn said via email. Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists’ president 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z The Congress has typically promoted a secular polity. Gandhi loyalist, ex-UN diplomat in race to lead India's opposition Congress party 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Anybody who doesn't share those values or characteristics is not really a member of society and the polity. Scholar who saw all this coming: Americans "do not really understand liberal democracy" 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Athenians are happy in a way that members of other polities are not, says Pericles, so much so that Athens is worth defending in battle. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Some sections of the Sri Lankan polity have always viewed with suspicion the presence of its bigger and powerful neighbour, India. Sri Lanka presidential elections: Why India matters to the island nation's political future 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z She has not yet set out specific polities on other areas including immigration or the economy. Factbox: The views of the frontrunners to succeed Boris Johnson 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z On the Fourth of July — the closest thing our polity has to a high holy day — I reflected on those words. Opinion | Lincoln’s political party is recklessly testing his wisdom 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z For the slave owning Jefferson “and most of his fellow patriots, enslaved people were property and therefore not included in these new polities, leaving their status unchanged,” Onuf says. The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’ 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z He declared that church administrative practices — known as “polity” among Southern Baptists and members of other denominations — must be turned against those who would injure church members. Southern Baptist churches must be ‘dangerous places’ for sexual predators, new president says 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z On the final day of the two-day annual meeting, Barber said sexual predators have used the convention’s decentralized polity to turn congregations “into a hunting ground.” New SBC President commits to move sex abuse reforms forward 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “Politicians spin and there are always judgments about their policy. But this is the first time that the ethics and polity of a prime minister have come into question in this matter,” said Curtice. Britain's Boris Johnson survives no-confidence vote but is politically wounded 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z But, as the spectacle of Victoria’s jubilee offered a vision of the world’s most powerful polity, the commemorations for Elizabeth’s long rule can’t hide Britain’s much-diminished state. Analysis | The Queen’s jubilee can’t shake the ghosts of empire 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The real danger lies in denying that a democratic polity must ultimately have sovereignty over an economy, and in pretending that wealth is anything more than a necessary support for a commonwealth. Gun violence, neoliberalism and Citizens United: We can't change things without facing the truth 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z “It would fit our polity and present ministries to help churches in this area of child abuse and sexual misconduct,” he wrote, recommending “immediate action.” Southern Baptists Release List of Alleged Sex Abusers 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Although Khan’s accusations of U.S. meddling in Pakistan’s politics are ridiculous, they play off an anti-Americanism that has become deeply rooted in parts of the Pakistani polity. Opinion | Pakistan’s foreign minister calls for a reset. Washington should hear him out. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Publicly, the leaders said they couldn’t because of “church polity,” or the denomination’s decentralized structure. Key takeaways from the bombshell sex abuse report by Southern Baptists 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It is also a dysfunctional force in our polity. Opinion | Why racism is bad for White people 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z For decades, the findings show, Southern Baptists were told the denomination could not put together a registry of sex offenders because it would go against the denomination’s polity — or how it functions. Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z How else does a conception of "life" unique to one particular strain of Christian theology come to dominate the laws of a polity with numerous Christianities, numerous non-Christian religions and vast numbers of non-religious citizens? How Democrats dumped secularism, found God — and doomed Roe v. Wade 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Her and Hidalgo’s poor numbers are due partly to the collapse of the traditional right and left, respectively, as the French polity realigns itself. In France, rise of the right puts Macron in trouble as presidential election looms 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Zelenskyy has used his own history to demonstrate that his is a country of possibility, not the hate-filled polity of Putin’s imagination. Zelenskyy’s unlikely journey from comedy to Ukrainian hero 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Zelenskyy has used his own history: Jewish, from eastern Ukraine, native Russian-speaking, with close friends among Russian artists, to demonstrate that his is a country of possibility, not the hate-filled polity of Putin’s imagination. Zelenskyy’s unlikely journey from comedy to Ukrainian hero and leader 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Gated residences, private schools and Uber have not sufficed to immunize even the affluent against the consequences of living in a decaying, fractured and embittered polity. Opinion | Supreme Court Justices Have Forgotten What the Law Is For 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z "But successful polities around the world," he continued, "have overcome flaws just as fundamental." Was Trump just the "warm-up act"? Canadian scholar warns of "right-wing dictatorship" 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The only way to overcome anti-democratic forces is by seeding democracy throughout society, empowering workers to take collective action in the workplace and the polity, and by securing democracy at the level of the state. Opinion | Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z They want to retain their prosperous economy and democratic polity. Op-Ed: How U.S.-China 'competition' could lead both countries to disaster 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The more recent was in 1860, which both revealed and reflected a profound rift in the American polity and led directly to the Civil War. The Revolution of 2020: How Trump's Big Lie reshaped history after 220 years 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Their goal was to prevent Black and brown people, as well as other Americans who support the Democratic Party, from participating in the polity as full citizens. The Republicans have dug up Jim Crow's corpse — and now they've married it 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z "The government has for political expediency compromised with the fundamentalist forces, particularly in the back drop of constrained democratic polity," said Debapriya Bhattacharya, an eminent economist. Bangladesh's Hindus living in fear following mob attacks 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Iraq has always had a sense of being a nation and a polity, but this deepened that identity, and when we prevailed gave us all pride in that achievement.” Opinion | The underappreciated success of Iraqi democracy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It entails both freedom and equality; open debate and an insistence that “people cannot have license to undermine the standing of their fellow citizens as free and equal members of the polity.” Opinion | Advancing democracy abroad requires defending it at home 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z This, even though Japan officially adheres to the “one-China policy” — the increasingly threadbare fiction that Taiwan and People’s Republic of China are somehow part of a single polity. Opinion | Civilized nations’ efforts to deter Russia and China are starting to add up 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z On the contrary, those conceptions were predicated upon the violent exploitation and exclusion of Black people and other nonwhites people from the polity. The Republicans have dug up Jim Crow's corpse — and now they've married it 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z And, of course, these punitive anti-fraud campaigns deter participation and cast targeted groups as suspect and unworthy of voice in the polity. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z In total, Jim Crow was a society-wide system and culture in which violence and other threats of punishment made it clear that Black people were not allowed to participate as equal members of the polity. Welcome to Republicanistan: The GOP's Jim Crow pseudo-democracy 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z People defined as "not white," especially Black people, were explicitly — and then implicitly — excluded from membership in the polity. Can we save American democracy, if it was never a democracy to begin with? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z They compared those results with outbreak data from South Korea, which the study describes as "a relatively egalitarian polity." Harvard Medical School study claims slavery reparations would have mitigated coronavirus spread 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z “We would like to emphasize that these protests must be seen in the context of India’s democratic ethos and polity,” the ministry said. Modi’s response to farmer protests in India stirs fears of a pattern 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Through them, groups struggled over who deserved voice in the polity, what were citizens' rights and obligations, and what—in turn—were the state's responsibilities to its citizens. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z "And we know that has had corrosive, corrosive impacts in the American polity that are not matched anywhere else in the world." Why is science so polarizing? Blame the way we talk about it. 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z The difficulty runs very deep in the American polity. 2020 and the company U.S. voters keep 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “We believe we can articulate dimensions of the American social polity at least as well as government can,” he said. A D.C. poster exhibit aims to get out the vote, displaying political imagery days before the election 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Gore triggered a national debate not only about what the Constitution means, but also about the health and well-being of the American polity. The case of Biden v. Trump: How a judge could decide the presidential election 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z But saying "Trump is not a king" misrepresents the nature of English monarchy and understates just how radically Trump and his enablers are trying to redefine the American polity. Bill Barr and Donald Trump are trying to torch the "Ancient Constitution" that governed kings 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z That polity and its leaders are simply rejected as legitimate wielders of authority over law enforcement, especially when they ask for restraint. Opinion | The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z But there’s a contradiction in Machiavelli’s thinking here, because he also acknowledged that one of the things every polity needed was periodic renewal and reform, and that corruption was what preceded it. Coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for | Malcolm Bull 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z But today, a century later, India is a free and independent polity, while the novel is more alive than ever, and why? Cynthia Ozick will spend her 92nd birthday 'contemplating mayhem' 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Consider that the errant and incoherent messaging about the public health is being broadcast into a polity that is already more polarized than at any time perhaps since the Civil War. Monday morning in USA of corona: Leadership and faith in times of tribulation 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The hope – always somewhat sketchy – was that an international polity would be developed to match the internationalisation of economics. Of course there’s a globalisation backlash. It has failed billions of people | Larry Elliott 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The Uranium One “scandal” was always questionable and unlikely to yield damage to Ms. Clinton, at least in more truth-aware segments of the polity. Opinion | Hillary Clinton has been exonerated 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “This election is really about a fractured polity – and probably, a fractured parliament.” Tight Canada election may offer power-broker role to smaller parties 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z We formed chiefdoms, kingdoms and then larger polities and various ways of distributing power after that. Is the world getting worse? Nicholas Christakis says in the big picture that's not true 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z If there’s anything America’s fractured polity should agree on, it’s that, whatever the size and scope, public activity ought to achieve its stated goals and produce maximum value for the dollars it consumes. Opinion | Good government gets plenty of lip service but no respect 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Those who remain silent, or worse, join in Mr. Trump’s lying game, will be complicit in the degradation of the U.S. polity. Opinion | The Ukraine facts are clear. But does truth still matter? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z And the corollary, the shameful, shared refusal of both Labor and Liberal parties to back a much-needed national corruption commission suggests only the obvious: the depth and breadth of corruption of our national polity. Greta Thunberg's 495-word UN speech points us to a future of hope – or despair 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z In many ways Trump is just an opportunist picking at the bones of weak and sick American polity. Donald Trump has given Democrats a gift. Will they squander it in 2020? 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z One BJP MP recently told a news website that the popularity of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" was a sort of protest by Hindus "against a certain bias and tilt of the polity towards minorities". The Hindu chant that became a murder cry 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Liu, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program, argues that our polarized, inequitable, dysfunctional polity needs “civic religion”: a collective change of heart, mind and habit. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z I don't think it's within the power of universities as governing polities or as institutions to singlehandedly change that. Billionaires can't fix college: Jim Sleeper on the real crisis in higher education 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “Now it’s becoming part and parcel — sadly — of our polarization, of our polarized polity,” Ms. Perry said. Impeaching a president has little historical precedent 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z So in many ways, the winner on Sunday was the image of Turkey’s polity, both at home and abroad. Turkish democracy is the winner in these momentous local elections | Sinan Ülgen 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z China has unquestionably modernized, but its politically illiberal, dirigiste polity has, if anything, massively moved in the opposite direction, strengthened by that very modernization process that has done anything but falter. Airbus and Boeing are signing economic suicide pacts with Beijing 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z “The polity of the United Methodist Church presumes trust,” she said. Improper Voting Discovered at Methodist Vote on Gay Clergy 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In a world in which there is an increasing abandonment of egalitarian and democratic impulses, what will it take to educate young people and the broader polity to challenge authority and hold power accountable? How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z “What Fukuyama laments as ‘fracturing’ is in reality the result of marginalized groups finally overcoming centuries-long efforts to erase them from the American polity — activism that will strengthen democratic rule, not threaten it,” Abrams wrote. Analysis | Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and the choices for Democrats in 2020 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Without a public sphere dominated by agreed-upon-facts, many say, a healthy society—and wise polity—become impossible to sustain. Does Democracy Need Truth?: A Conversation with the Historian Sophia Rosenfeld 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Change the incentives in “pay to play,” and size becomes less of a polluting impact on the American polity. In antitrust, size isn’t everything 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Events that dignify, unify and signify our membership in this special polity, and all the reasons we should be grateful for it, faults and all. Opinion | The State of the Union is a tasteless, classless spectacle. It must go. 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The visible collapse of the Westminster polity this week may be a result of Brexit, but Brexit itself is the result of the invisible subsidence of the political order over recent decades. It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Reagan was ultimately reelected in 1984 with 59 percent of the popular vote and the electoral votes of every polity except Minnesota and Washington, DC. Donald Trump is being blamed for government shutdown, according to a new poll 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z He remains the model for the shrinking band of bipartisan officials who represent the responsible middle of our polity, where deals are struck that last longer than a presidential term. Opinion | We never met a man as remarkable as George H.W. Bush — and we never will again 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Consequently, over the last two decades we have allowed successive waves of mergers that make a mockery of the 1950 law, and have concentrated economic power in ways that are dangerous to the polity. Opinion | Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid. 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Those most likely to be marginalised from the process are those most likely to be marginalised in the economy and the polity – the black, the brown and the poor. Why democracy will be the biggest loser in the US midterms | Gary Younge 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The settlements varied in size, and the largest three seem to be arranged around the perimeter of the kingdom, likely offering a layer of protection from neighboring polities. Hidden Monuments and "Suburbs" Discovered in Ancient Izapa Kingdom 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Especially in Italy, which is among the least stable polities in the European Union. If the Euro cracks — blame Germany, not the Italians 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It would be a balm to a hate-weary polity and might make a hero of the man or woman brave enough to offer it. Partisanship means never having to say you’re sorry 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z A more human response would have been good for the polity, and his credibility, if not for his nomination. Defending Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Other Distractions, at the Kavanaugh Hearings 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But some of this unfairness is baked into the polity. Why democracy will be the biggest loser in the US midterms | Gary Younge 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The settlements varied in size, and the largest three seem to be arranged around the perimeter of the kingdom, likely offering a layer of protection from neighboring polities. Hidden Monuments and "Suburbs" Discovered in Ancient Izapa Kingdom 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Bullies like Donald Trump consolidate their power by dividing the population, and then by creating a crisis which further fractures the polity. A Labor Day warning: We’re all working to support Donald Trump’s empire of debt. What if it f... 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Chinese leaders are sniffy about polities that espouse rule of law as a founding principle. Amid tensions with America, China is turning to Europe 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “These are ultimately matters not of the design of law, but of normalizing hate in the polity and society,” Mander said. India’s Supreme Court warns of ‘mobocracy,’ urges government to pass anti-lynching law after deadly attacks 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z North Korea is another relatively new polity whose identity was forged in opposition to external enemies. Opinion | Trump can’t make a ‘deal of the century’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Du Bois termed “double consciousness” — the feeling of being part of the American polity yet not fully of it. Opinion | African-Americans and the Strains of the National Anthem 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z “Libya remains a fragmented polity with multiple potential spoilers,” it said. Libyan Factions Agree to Elections Despite Deep Divisions 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The biggest challenges are political: a presidential system like Costa Rica’s works well in a polity divided into two main parties, with rules designed to ensure that minority views are adequately respected. How did Costa Rica get it so right? | Joseph Stiglitz 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Israel remains the only democratic polity in an undemocratic region and the only nation with whom the United States shares both values and interests. Opinion | Partisanship is compromising our special relationship with Israel 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The dividends of colonial plunder were converted, back home, into strong states with powerful bureaucracies and democratic polities – the template for modern European life. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But as a democratic polity we should be able to conduct these discussions with maturity, and with respect for video games as a novel but rapidly evolving art form. No, Mr Trump, video games do not cause mass shootings | Katherine Cross 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The western United States — especially the deep-blue Pacific Coast states — is beginning to coalesce into a distinct polity acting independently of the federal government, forming a powerful economic bloc that cannot be ignored. It’s up to Western states to rescue our democracy 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z James Madison had read his Aristotle, and Aristotle was right in the end about what the unbound will can do to a polity. Opinion | President Trump is the freest man alive 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z They put the imperial line, hitherto mere props in Kyoto, back at the centre of the polity. Why modern Japan’s founding moment still divides a nation 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z They believe God wants them to extinguish all other polities and rule the world by themselves. ISIS Declares War on Hamas, and Gaza Families Disown Sons in Sinai 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z It also requires great faith in our capacity for restoration despite the readiness of the president’s allies to place his survival above the health of our polity. Opinion | We’re rushing toward the breaking point 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In a polity ever more starkly divided, the truth about global warming was even less convenient to the left than to the right. Is it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen on one year of Trump's America 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z But he notably stopped short of declaring the region an independent polity, calling for further dialogue with the Spanish government. Catalan president stops short of declaring independence, calls for further dialogue with Spain 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Big, successful cities like Barcelona are always open; you will always have to allow for Spanish speakers and foreigners to live, work and settle here – and to have a full stake in the polity. ‘We are with you Catalunya’ – the revolt in Spain is bigger than flags and language 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z But while institutional reform of the European Union may be vital, it is harder to sell to increasingly fragmented national polities, especially as the center-left parties lose ground. Germany’s Far Right Complicates Life for Merkel — and the E.U. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z We must ensure that our laws are enforced to maintain the vitality, prosperity and security of our polity. Opinion | The Trump administration’s deep misunderstanding of DACA 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z This leap of faith seems to inspire others to great things, and probably is the reason we were able to form large polities. Why do people die fighting for a cause? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Chenoweth described Donald Trump as having “demagogic aspects of his behavior” and warned of the importance of recognizing “the broader authoritarian currents in the American polity that put him in power.” American politics are becoming violent. But peaceful movements have power | Antonia Juhasz 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Mexico, you name it, less than 40% of the public feel that their polities are headed in a positive direction. Americans are in no celebratory mood this 4th of July. But they should be | Zachary Karabell 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z By contrast, “The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness” is about India, the polity, during the past half century or so, and its griefs are national. Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction, in Fury 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In a restless polity, such single-mindedness would earn the ruling party a risky degree of unpopularity, but nothing seems to dent the P.A.P. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z I investigate the lesser-known source of all this hate-laced “news” simmering in our public debates, helping to cultivate a distorted reality for its ardent believers and a fractured polity for the rest of us. How online hate infiltrates social media and politics 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z This was taken for granted, and still is, by the English polity. Brexit was an English vote for independence – you can’t begrudge the Scots the same 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z "Northern nationalists have cause now to fear being marooned economically and politically behind a hard border and living in a polity where greater sovereignty over their lives is restored to British institutions." Northern Ireland vote jolts already disunited Kingdom 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Tlaxcallan was the only polity in the region that fended off Mexica control, turning it into something of an economic and political island. It wasn't just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z On the contrary, the typical forms of resistance, accepting the neoliberal order as given, only worsen the undemocratic nature of our polity. America last: The case for moral disengagement from politics in the age of Trump 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Can all of this come together to make up a country, a polity? Carson McCullers at 100: a century of American suffering 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z But the European powers’ pre-war involvement in this Middle East of sovereign polities was positively benign compared to the colonial settlements they tried to impose at the end of hostilities. Trump’s dangerous delusions about Islam | Christopher de Bellaigue 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As the White House is bequeathed to the popular choice, it’s intended to symbolise continuity and stability – a common destiny in a shared polity. Trump's first speech in office was unapologetic appeal to nationalism | Gary Younge 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Planning to build walls to keep refugees out, assuming there is something exceptional about our homelands, are all symptoms of the selfish, individualistic, hubristic subjects that neoliberal polities produce, he argues. Raoul Martinez on writing this year's essential text for thinking radicals 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Taiwan has become a prosperous and democratic polity integrated into the world economy. Trump’s Taiwan Play 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z We write together although we represent very different parts of the American polity. Every Religious Person in America Must Help Our Muslim Brethren 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He had a sneaking suspicion that a polity ruled by educated voters probably would perform better than a democracy, and he thought that some of the resulting inequities could be remedied. The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z That’s especially true at election time and even more necessary in such a polarised and acrimonious polity as the US Congress has become. The Guardian view on the FBI’s new Clinton probe: exactly the wrong thing to do | Editorial 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Jews and Americans share the belief that a culture of self-accountability creates a wholesome society and a more responsible polity. No Apologies for Being Jewish 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z For the rest of the polity, this is hardly revelation. Trump was mean to a beauty queen. How is this news? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Even the filthy rich realize they are better off--living in a civilized polity--civilization being a matter of high density cooperative coordinated life. Rio Games Highlight Problems With the Olympic Model 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z How can this happen in a country trying to achieve the fairness promised by its Socialist polity? Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria as Desperate Flock to Mines 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z India and south-east Asia contained a kaleidoscope of regimes, whereas polities in America, Africa and Australasia ranged from tiny hunter-gatherer bands to sprawling empires. Isis is as much an offshoot of our global civilisation as Google 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z But it’s also why each enjoys shocking, unparalleled success in a culture and a polity that are militantly unchastened by the lessons of the 2008 economic collapse. How the prosperity gospel explains Donald Trump’s popularity with Christian voters 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The state of the polity is not good today. A transcript of The Washington Post editorial board’s meeting with Gary Johnson and William Weld 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It was a principle essential to the nation’s democratic polity and a social system that allowed people – like him – from humble backgrounds to succeed. This Is What Abraham Lincoln Would Tell Donald Trump 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But by 1796, when Washington announced that he would not run for a third term, the polity had divided into parties, a development that the Electoral College was not designed to accommodate. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z For centuries after the Norman invasion, England’s rulers saw it as part of a trans-Channel polity, together with their possessions in France. As a lifelong English European, this is the biggest defeat of my political life | Timothy Garton Ash 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Before joining the European Economic Community, Britain was a sovereign and democratic polity. Britain's Democracy Is a Sham 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z HIATT: Well, I’m interested in your views on the state of the polity, but before we get to that, is there any role for government in lessening the frequency of this kind of shooting? A transcript of The Washington Post editorial board’s meeting with Gary Johnson and William Weld 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Democrats believed Republicans had won by playing dirty, and so they united behind an ideologically heterodox scrapper, Bill Clinton—whose family the American polity has yet to get rid of. No More Mr. Nice Guy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He urged Australians not to form conclusions about the US polity until after the 8 November presidential election. Trump presidency would sink TPP and harm China relations, says Kim Beazley 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z While it is a perhaps less than nuanced portrait of this slice of the polity, it is on balance not a mean one. 'The Ranch' is an old-fashioned sitcom, but Sam Elliott and Debra Winger make it worth watching 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Like earlier Hammons shows, this one feels like a combined diplomatic mission from an ominous polity and a guerrilla raid by a force that departs as swiftly as it pounces. The Satirical Oracle of Race and Class 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Though Burke believed in aristocratic leadership and spoke to and for a mostly aristocratic polity, he understood that conservatism had to appeal to the commoner. This is why the right hates Donald Trump: He doesn’t question their core beliefs, but they still see the danger 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Its editor, Hossein Shariatmadari, wrote, “The structure of Iran’s ruling system is such that no political faction can change the main polities rooted in core principles.” Iran’s Voters Sent a Message to the Hard-Liners 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z And, in the tradition of Libya’s unruly polity, even the royal family is not immune from factionalism. A Radical Idea to Rebuild a Shattered Libya: Restore the Monarchy 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Rubio needs every “establishment” vote the polity has to offer, and Kasich has no intention of giving them up without a fight. What we learned from the South Carolina primary and Nevada caucus 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z A new Australian political party is using the virtual currency bitcoin as a model to replace what they say is an outdated political system - representative democracy - with a streamlined new polity for the information age. Flux Party seeks to be the bitcoin of Australian politics 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z As a polity, we are conceptual children of Locke’s. The new social contract: This is what’s roiling the electorate & fueling the success of anti-establishment candidates Trump, Cruz and Sanders 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Sen. Sanders often tells young people that they can effect “bold changes” in the polity by voting for him and standing up against “the establishment.” Children of the Corn vs. Hillary’s Female Army 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Botswana’s wider economy and polity are similarly constrained by outmoded traditions and laws, even though at first blush the country is doing astoundingly well. Losing its sparkle 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Corruption will continue to excoriate three-quarters of the world’s polities – leaving the vast majority of humanity disillusioned and increasingly unlikely to vote. What will happen in 2016? 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Relations between these communities were not always harmonious — this is the past we are talking about — but co-existence was woven into the fabric of Muslim society and polity. Sam Harris’ detestable crusade: How his latest anti-Islam tract reveals the bankruptcy of his ideas 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Second, activism in today’s polity is heavily about fundraising. How outrage lends itself to fundraising 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But it seems Mr. Xi wants to consolidate his hold over Shanghai politics along with every other corner of the Chinese polity. Xi Takes On the Tycoons 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z For millennia, polities have sought to dress their hard power in the softer stuff. The Louvre comes to Abu Dhabi | Kanishk Tharoor 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z So much for “diversity,” which by itself promises only a more colorful, global managerial elite that uncommitted and unanswerable to any Democratic or Republican polity or moral code. We, the people, remain filled with rage: Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Today, Germany is arguably the most liberal polity in Europe. The Man Who Saved Germany’s New Democracy 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Ultimately, those who oppose women’s full reproductive rights support a system of power and ideology that seeks to deny women full and equal membership in the polity. Ben Carson’s sick historic fantasies: The nonsense GOP front-runner sells his racist, reactionary, low-information base 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The Roman Empire may have been an unwieldy polity, with unstable structures of command and legions of soldiers that could become dangerously independent. Ancient Rome and Today’s Migrant Crisis 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z If those jurisdictions blur, as they do in the European Union, people’s trust in the polity weakens and the structures of answerability become too opaque. The Middle-Class Squeeze 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z But their disdainful hostility only fuels the strong sense held by Corbyn’s supporters, that their hopes of creating a better polity are always thwarted by the dark forces of the establishment. Jeremy Corbyn probably won’t be prime minister, but he can change politics | Deborah Orr 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z And only then could the mob be momentarily marginalised and the polity embarrassed into reckoning with its moral and legal obligations. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Although Britain remains one of the rich world’s most centralised polities, Wales is likewise more self-governing than in the 1950s. Longest to reign over them 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “Polarization has infiltrated all aspects of the polity.” Mudslinging in Race for Nashville Mayor Shakes City’s Political Scene 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The proposed deal likewise has unified Israel's normally fractious polity in opposition. 99 Problems With Obama's Iran Math 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Iran’s primary interest is the survival of the establishment and in assuring that an aggressive Sunni polity does not arise in Iraq to replicate the situation Tehran faced with Saddam Hussein. The Turkish Enigma 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z In any sane polity, gun killings would be a horror, not a habitual event. Obama’s Evolving Outrage on Guns 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Just as Guzmán and the new cartels operate within the logic of the “legal” economy, and become major investors in it, so the “legal” economy and polity embrace the cartels. Joachín 'El Chapo' Guzmán: the truth about the jailbreak of the millennium 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z They asked, Does the polity serve the market, or does the market serve the polity? Radical austerity’s brutal lies: How Krugman and Chomsky saw through dehumanizing neoliberal spin 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The American polity and media episodically “discovers” this daily reality in much the same way that teenagers discover sex – urgently, earnestly, voraciously and carelessly, with great self-indulgence but precious little self-awareness. Farewell to America | Gary Younge 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Marriage, the Maynard Court said, has long been “‘a great public institution, giving character to our whole civil polity.’” Read the Supreme Court Ruling That Recognized Gay Marriage Nationwide 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Marriage, the Maynard Court said, has long been ” ‘a great public institution, giving character to our whole civil polity.’ Seema Iyer breaks down Obergefell v. Hodges 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The ability to believe someone wrong without simultaneously believing them stupid or evil or ignorant is a valuable quality in a person and indispensable in a polity. Politics Is One Big Monty Python Sketch 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But many of the ostensibly more liberal Asian polities also display the symptoms, especially where prickly nationalists are in charge. Who’s afraid of the activists? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Syriza was elected by the Greek polity and they stated that this was what they were going to do. In Greece Syriza Is Still, After Three Months, Insisting On The Same Red Lines 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z They measure a developing country’s “polity score”, based on factors like transparency and constraints on executive power. String-pushers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Because in Britain’s new fractured polity, the centre is less a pivot between two big parties than a collection of the attributes—competence, decency, moderation—that most voters prize. The shrivelled middle 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z A closed polity, whether privately owned or not, is a prison camp, and nobody wants to live in a prison camp. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Showed Good Governance Is Good Business 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z With slightly less territory than New York City, Singapore is a hybrid polity whose influence extends at least as far over cities as states. Rise of the “utopian” police state: How the unlikely triumph of Singapore transformed the world overnight 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z It is hard to imagine the fallout this time around, for a far less stable polity, could be less traumatic. They haven’t gone away 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In countries with higher polity scores, investment tumbles far less during election season. String-pushers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Paul Krugman deigns to tell us all, in his latest column, just what is wrong with both the British polity and the British media discussion of economic policy. Paul Krugman's Misunderstanding Of The British Deficit Hysteria 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Ultimately, good governance may be the result of a flowering of small polities where the “social contract” takes the form of an actual contract. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Showed Good Governance Is Good Business 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z They feel trapped in polities whose highest sense of pride derives from self-flagellating egalitarianism, not pride in their great traditions or historical triumphs but pride in the admission of present prejudices and past historical sins. It's All In There, In Putin's Language: You Just Have To Listen Harder 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Arithmetically, it is a simple restatement of the distribution of resources which is a core function of the shared polity and economy known as the United Kingdom. The north/south divide of UK politics 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Lust for power and other "ailments" of character are elevated in our polity today, reflection is dismissed out of hand. Francis Uses Christmas Speech to Criticize Vatican Bureaucracy 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z For while there are various such surveys they’re all really measuring how classically liberal an economy or polity is. How To Turn The United States Into Scandinavia 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z This is no less true for private polities. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Showed Good Governance Is Good Business 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In fact, the most important person who thought a president could bring consensus to the American polity was Obama himself. Our Unrealistic Hopes for Presidents 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z This report is a start, but as a polity we have not lived up to our own responsibility, to demand accountability for the wrongs done in our name. Taking Responsibility for Torture 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Human beings ought to be not only economic decision-makers but also citizens in an active polity and contributors to a vibrant culture. The overall value of higher education While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly. Russell Brand's Revolution: panel verdict 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Steering clear of hot button issues may be smart politics but it is dismal for the polity. With so many issues off the agenda, no wonder the midterms are a turn-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The political philosopher Francis Fukuyama in his 2011 book, The Origins of Political Order, posed the question, how do we get to Denmark — Denmark being a metaphor for a humane and efficient polity? Why War Is Good 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Do they really want an Umbrella Revolution that radically changes the nature of Hong Kong’s polity, or an open, free and stable environment to get on with building their lives? The Needs of Hong Kong's Silent Majority Are Being Ignored 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z And in all that time it has merely led to the incremental increase of Scottish and Welsh autonomy, and with it the creation of a lopsided British polity. What now for Britishness? 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Scotland is, in fact, already a separate country – but a separate country within a larger polity. 'I am a Scot, but I am also a Briton': Scottish expats on the independence referendum abroad 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It can transform what appears to be a fixed polity, a fixed outcome, into something entirely different. A yes vote in Scotland would unleash the most dangerous thing of all - hope 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z And Orkney’s regional powers weren’t much to begin with, the UK being one of Europe’s most centralized polities. The Islands Stuck in the Middle of Scotland's Vote for Independence 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The aftermath of the agitation against the then Ukrainian Government was initially usurped by right wingers in Ukrainian polity. U.S. and Europe Are Struggling With Response to a Bold Russia 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z As the Libyan intervention demonstrates, the best will in the world—and, seemingly, the best candidates for our support—can’t cure broken polities quickly. Does It Help to Know History? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The rest of Europe is a richer source than Britain for politically-inflected crime drama for the simple reason that most other European polities have had more troubled recent histories. The Second Coming of 'Euro Noir' Drama Niall Ferguson tells us in his book Civilization: The West and the Rest that “There were roughly a thousand polities in fourteenth-century Europe; and still around 500 more or less independent units 200 years later.” European Dis-Integration: Ukraine Is A Harbinger Of Things To Come 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But a feeble polity, however democratic, such as Romania’s neighbor Moldova, offers the Russians many local politicians to bribe. Why Moldova Urgently Matters 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z It is degrading to live in a venal polity, but the idea of a special national mission or destiny can be consoling. Because we’re worth it 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z What better way to experience the majesty of the declaration, and glean its deeper meanings, than to read it closely, surrounded by citizens of varying backgrounds all representing the polity of 21st-century America? Book review: ‘Our Declaration,’ by Danielle Allen In our book, we predict that in 2034, China will be richer economically and culturally, its military more powerful, its polity less centralized. Q. and A.: William C. Kirby on 'Can China Lead?' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Europe is the only polity with two presidents – one of its commission and one of its council. Why David Cameron is right in his bid to junk Mr Juncker 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The north-south divide, at the heart of the Nigerian polity, is the elephant in the room. The missing girls of Chibok will determine Nigeria's fate 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Poroshenko’s strong showing obviates the need for a second electoral round and removes any ambiguity about whether Ukrainians in fact want a strong, independent polity. Poroshenko's Win in Ukraine Is a Big Setback for Russia 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Then there are the constraints of India's federal polity. Will India's Narendra Modi be a reformer? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Journalism is a pole of power in a healthy polity. “A corrosive dereliction of duty”: Why the New York Times’ America-first journalism is so dangerous 2014-05-01T23:00:00Z Spheres of influence are extensions of control beyond a given polity’s natural or declared borders. Someone teach John Kerry about history! 2014-04-03T22:59:00Z This time, as well as adding uncontrolled bloggers to the equation, these competing voices in the polity had clear reasons to develop their own casualty narrative. When Republicans hated the troops 2014-02-23T17:00:00Z The programme is under review, but Greece’s institutions and polity are so dysfunctional that “nothing short of a bone-marrow transplant” will do, says a consultant to international lenders. Privatisation in Greece: Hellishly Hellenic 2014-01-09T16:00:03Z India’s democratic polity had three important projects when it was born. India Ink: A Conversation With: Political Scientist Ashutosh Varshney 2013-12-20T06:43:22Z Historically, after leaving Mecca, Mohammed moved to Medina, where he established the world’s first Islamic polity. Gauging The Jihadist Movement, Part 1: The Goals Of The Jihadists 2013-12-19T15:23:00Z If American media were half as good reporting corruption and nepotism at home as they are abroad, we would have a healthier polity. Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone 2013-12-18T12:43:00Z He was a repentant warrior and long-suffering martyr; a savvy saint and humble leader; he was both father of his nation and its conscience, the moral glue of its fragile polity. The Indispensable Man: South Africa Ponders a Future Without Nelson Mandela 2013-12-06T09:20:26Z Drucker saw this balancing act as a hallmark of business today—“the need to operate in both a global world economy and a splintered world polity.” What Globalization Really Means 2013-10-23T16:18:22Z The more urban India becomes, the less caste-ridden its polity will be. India Ink: A Conversation With: Political Scientist Ashutosh Varshney 2013-12-20T06:43:22Z "Trying to understand what happened in human history to lead people to establish this sort of polity we felt was a gap in understanding that needed to be filled." New date for origin of ancient Egypt 2013-09-04T00:51:17Z The fact is, the polity of this country is divided on economic policies and that is understandable ... Insight: India's crisis within a crisis; finance minister fights on two fronts 2013-09-01T21:21:11Z Does a polity with fewer peacemakers become an even rougher trade? Is it better for children to have siblings? 2013-08-21T10:27:33Z The consolidation of a Euro-American economic unit will require China to join, too, as it becomes a more open, liberal and rule-governed polity. Opinion: Want World Domination? Size Matters 2013-07-27T18:30:01Z Do you think caste is something that can be removed from Indian electoral polity? India Ink: A Conversation With: Political Scientist Ashutosh Varshney 2013-12-20T06:43:22Z With that in mind this is the question that many are asking: How will Mr Modi be able to attract allies in a fragmented polity? Why India's main opposition alliance is in disarray 2013-06-17T23:57:40Z Yet the deepest cause is the mismatch between a single currency area and 17 national polities. The euro survives, but where are the Europeans? 2013-03-28T08:00:07Z However, as stated in an earlier post, President Lincoln made moves toward including African-Americans in the American polity. Lincoln: Spielberg's Civics Lesson 2013-02-21T06:40:00Z He attributes the success of this terminology among politicians to the imperative to claim the middle ground, "now that we're a personality-driven polity, rather than an ideological polity". Why do politicians use business jargon? 2013-02-06T00:46:17Z You could say that the democratic constraints of Indian polity are moderating Mr. Modi. India Ink: A Conversation With: Political Scientist Ashutosh Varshney 2013-12-20T06:43:22Z In light of this, the maintenance of politicians’ oligopolies for decades - centuries even - in non-democratic polities testifies to high barriers to trade in the intra-polity market for control. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z Poland and Ukraine both have pretty stable polity. Greece's debt: A bail-out by any other name 2012-11-27T14:01:33Z What worries conservatives here is that an increasingly diverse and Democratic polity will embrace health care mandates, higher domestic spending and a bigger government role in people’s economic lives. Changing U.S. Electorate Worries Wyoming Conservatives 2012-11-19T00:31:38Z Droughts from 820 to 870 similarly were associated with an outbreak of fighting, as well as the disintegration of local polities, or ruling bodies. Did Climate Change Kill the Mayans? 2012-11-09T13:05:23Z But the biggest failure of the Indian polity is on the poverty front. India Ink: A Conversation With: Political Scientist Ashutosh Varshney 2013-12-20T06:43:22Z Across the planet, polities are organised into regional monopolies with no legal means to introduce competition. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z Aside from the grim economy, the failure to forge a bipartisan polity ranks very high among Americans' gripes with the four years under President Obama. Will weather rain on Romney campaign? 2012-10-29T02:45:29Z China is very old, the longest continuously-existing polity in the world. Making sense of China 2012-10-12T17:51:13Z This prize should not only reward EU’s statements and actions on the world stage, but also the very nature of this original post-national polity. Europe : Getting the Nobel Peace Prize and preparing for the Nobel Prize in Economics? 2012-10-12T13:40:06Z Obama's election forced a reckoning between what a large number of Americans wanted to happen and what was possible to achieve through the American polity as it stands. The struggle for Obama's voters: 'I just wish he could have been better' 2012-10-10T15:06:00Z And yet, that is precisely how the market for control of polities is organised. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z As long as Islamists were able to market their philosophy as the only alternative to dictatorship and foreign meddling, they were attractive to an oppressed polity. Islamists’ Final Stand 2012-09-17T05:00:00Z Hatred and extremism fester in closed polities, whereas the internet tends to strengthen the tolerant and open-minded. Islam and technology: The online ummah 2012-08-16T15:04:05Z Sure, Canada and Mexico are two vastly different polities, with different problems and with police forces in considerably different states of preparedness. U.S. Gun Laws Endanger All of North America 2012-07-25T13:35:36Z A single market, unlike a free trade zone, means a single polity, and the only question is whether it will be a democratic polity. Time for a democratic European state 2012-07-16T12:05:30Z Far and away the greatest impediments to “free trade” are those concerned with the control of polities. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z The imbalances of China's economy are not accidental but the result of this corrupt polity. Is China heading for a crash? 2012-07-12T17:29:50Z There is no overarching state and, more significantly, no common European polity to support the common currency. Costas Lapavitsas answers your questions on Greece and the eurozone crisis 2012-06-13T16:07:00Z With those historic stakes in mind, you sent us your questions about Sunday’s elections and about Greece as a society and a polity. IHT Rendezvous: Greek Elections: Niki Kitsantonis Answers Readers' Questions 2012-06-12T09:49:14Z I can't see meaningful convergence or the building up of a common identity/narrative/polity capable of sustaining the transfers involved in an effective single currency. The euro crisis: Time to pull the plug? 2012-05-22T14:57:05Z First, within all but a handful of polities, effective control is exercised by a tiny - but heavily entrenched - elite of politicians who monopolise all legislation. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z It was the task of Ezekiel to take up once more the broken threads of Israel’s religious traditions, and weave them anew into statelier forms of ritual and national polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Ancient Irish polity was very good theoretically, but practically it was a frightful failure. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Granted, where politics operates -- where collective decisions are made for the polity -- majorities should generally have their way. Wonkbook: Simpson-Bowles can't make the budget debate bipartisan 2012-04-19T12:11:38Z Mr Chaney then uses a common measure of democratisation known as a “polity IV” score to test various narratives of Arab political stagnation. Free exchange: Historysis 2012-04-04T15:00:00Z Not in the production of “stuff” which arguably has little impact on human happiness, but in the polity market which does. Growth: Markets, broad and deep 2012-11-19T20:56:27Z Only then will it be possible to turn to the plans he devised for the rethinking of Chinese tradition and the reorganization of Chinese polity. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z They were the original disciples in Judea, and were subjected, in common with other Jews, to the hardships and persecutions which followed upon the destruction of the national polity. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z But the main stay of Iroquois polity was the system of totemship. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z In theology, as in ecclesiastical polity, Hofmann was a Lutheran of an extreme type, although the strongly marked individuality of some of his opinions laid him open to repeated accusations of heterodoxy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z That huge construction, the mightiest fabric of human polity, fell and covered the earth with its ruins. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It is obvious that, in theory, a free and unassociated individual in a laissez-faire polity would be defenseless against extra-politically organized persons. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z Such an attempt, however, would have been far less absurd than the attempt to find out the principles of public polity by a direct examination of that wonderfully intricate combination, Society. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The thoughtful man finds himself, as we have seen, in a polity of gods and men, a cosmos, well-ordered in its very essence. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z No doubt the tribe of Judah could bear the new burdens, because it enjoyed the advantages of the new polity. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z This fact made the establishment of one religious polity a thing quite conceivable. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The second was the peril to the Chinese polity, the danger that China might become politically appurtenant to some foreign power of group of powers. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z The two men were opposite in character, opposite in financial plans, opposite in views of national polity. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The personal preferences, prejudices, predilections, of the old and unreformed social polity remain. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The Negroes used the same polity, the same literature, and sometimes the same national agencies as the white Baptists. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z It had no share in the Divine polity framed for the chosen people; the outward mark of its uncircumcision was a true symbol of its irreligion and debasement. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z This deed has proved a firm foundation for the polity of the Methodists to this day. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Lyford said they were Jesuits in their ecclesiastical polity, but they permitted him to gather a separate church and perform the Episcopal service among them. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Finally, the same career in the local polity as of old remains practically open to men serving on the Commission of Peace. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The schism in the white church, moreover, stimulated this desire for thorough separation from the white Methodists inasmuch as their so-called superiors were divided in their views as to questions of polity. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The most striking is Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, and has built itself up from war-torn rubble into probably the most democratic polity in the Horn of Africa. Somalia: Far from a failed state? 2012-02-20T08:39:54Z The principles of Teutonic and of Roman polity had to work together, and the result was the medieval State with an absolute king for its centre, and a great independence of local parts. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Lechford, in his "Plain Dealing," relates a circumstance that has caused some inquiry into the ecclesiastical polity of Coddington and his associates. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z As in the case of the Throne, so in that of the provincial polities; it was the Tudor sovereigns who narrowed and enervated the privileges of their subjects. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The missionaries have never published a word against the Old Church ecclesiastics or its polity. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z In church polity he held that congregationalism constituted the most fitting environment in which religion could achieve her work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The rationalistic mode of thought which has left such a peculiar stamp on the eighteenth century, appears in all its glory in the laying out of the wise military polity of feudalism. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z What we agreed on is that formulating climate change polity is first and foremost a question of risk judgement. Climate consensus cracking open - or not... 2012-02-06T17:05:36Z The London County Council, which has little in common with the bodies already examined except the name, has been reserved to a chapter dealing chiefly, like the present, with the polity of the capital. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Pan′-Slav′ism, a movement for the amalgamation of all the Slavonic races into one body, with one language, literature, and social polity; Pan′-Slav′ist, one who favours Pan-Slavism.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Besides, Sir, as this is a matter evidently appertaining to the internal polity of the separate States, the Congress, by the nature of our constitution, have no authority to interfere with it. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.850Z And we have the works of many Christian writers in our possession who prove by their own bible that the Jews made many changes in their religious polity and religious doctrines. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z The historian, however, does admit that there is compensation for the anomalies which result from this polity. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z In reality this feature in the social polity of Oxford, however interesting or striking, has never marked so visible a contrast to the preceding epoch as it may have done at Cambridge. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Reformed′, formed again or anew: changed: amended: improved: denoting the churches formed after the Reformation, esp. those in which the Calvinistic doctrines, and still more the Calvinistic polity, prevail, in contradistinction to the Lutheran.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z That which we render “Be shepherd” comprehends all offices which government in the divine polity requires. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z And the worship of God is an essential requisition in each religious polity. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Admission to the gild was not restricted to burgesses; nor did the brethren form an aristocratic body having control over the whole municipal polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The same remark might with equal truth probably be made of every part in our national polity. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Then, when he realizes this truth, shall we not at least have made some progress towards laying the foundations for a sane international polity? The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z In fact, it is in the institution of such a polity that the perfection of our Lord as Lawgiver and Governor consists. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z "Respect to persons" is a sin in the moral polity of both. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z It was not considered such by the majority of the Bavarian people, who were probably more in sympathy with their ruler’s present mood than with his earlier aspirations towards a Grecian polity and culture. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z He alone of all his people foresaw that the mission would destroy, first the ancient polity, and ultimately the independence of the Fijians. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Are we really prepared to leap into the void and totally remake our polity because we are that dissatisfied with the current dispensation? India Ink: Four Reasons Why Shashi Tharoor is Wrong 2011-12-20T07:04:07Z Thus the divine polity unfolds itself in a spiritual descent. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The fall of the Empire, the formation of the Christian polity, the centuries of the Middle Ages, the culture of the Renaissance, did not extirpate it. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Not less important in the native polity were the wizard's services in the detection of crime. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z A genuine representative system, it is true, was never developed in any Greek polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Such a thing as the Civil Power in any particular polity putting under ban and persecuting the religion of its people was unknown. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Yet it broadcasts a message that Israel’s Arab citizens are strangers and opponents rather than members of a shared polity. Opinion: Israel?s Other Occupation 2011-11-26T23:01:11Z Roman jurisprudence and Roman government are the basis of every civilised polity. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z The religion of the Fijians was so closely interwoven with their social polity that it was impossible to tear away the one without lacerating the other. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z But it is not till the 3rd century that federation attains to its full development in Greece, and becomes the normal type of polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z We find the method of internal promulgation which that teaching Body pursued was the creation everywhere of a Christian polity. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Indeed, seeing that the progress towards perfection of a civilised state, or polity, depends on the obedience of its members to these commands, the Stoics sometimes termed the pure reason the "political" nature. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Nationality is a great force at present, but in ancient days the only power that could bind tribes together in one polity was a military despotism. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Religion was the basis of their polity, the condition of their social existence. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z All the forms of the Roman administration went on, and the Roman polity and Roman culture had great influence on the Goths themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z From the beginning, then, the office of teaching was lodged in those who governed; they conserved, handed down from age to age, all that which constituted the polity, of which doctrine was the life-blood. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z The administration of a system of polity is the larger part of its establishment. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z It is God speaking to his chosen people, about to take possession of the promised land, instructing them concerning their polity and conduct in their new home and relations. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z At least, had not been up to a month before his decease, though he visited churches of all denominations and was familiar with their doctrines and polity. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z But it means very much more than this; it points us out as members of a commonwealth, citizens of a polity, subjects of a kingdom, in which we have special interests, special responsibilities and functions. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z It was precisely the polity of the Church at which the Roman State would take umbrage. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Led by a 74-year old farmer from Maharashtra, Baburao “Anna” Hazare, the popular outcry against this scourge of the Indian polity has consumed the months of summer and monsoon from April to September. India Ink: The Grammar of Anarchy 2011-09-16T06:08:29Z They may criticise each other’s polity, but the former has no right to reproach the latter as being necessarily defective in “order.” The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z We would not, if we know ourselves, pen a single line to swell the ranks of a party, or draw over adherents to any particular doctrinal creed or any special form of church polity. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Our little microcosm, afloat and sundered in the wastes, was occupied in its own polity. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z In doing this they had regard to the civil disposition of the empire, using it as a model upon which they formed the exterior polity of the Church. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z With the Indians, their habits, characteristics, polity and trade Franklin was very conversant. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z There may be equal “order” under widely different forms of polity. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z "The presence of this community in York is a curious vestige of Irish influence, discernible amidst long continued Saxon usage, which, as we learn from Bede, was, in ecclesiastical polity, antagonistic to the Scotic system". The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z It met a particular exigency by a particular expedient, and as that particular exigency did not uniformly recur, the particular expedient naturally did not at once stereotype itself in our parliamentary polity. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z In the eucharistic service he felt himself at once the citizen of a heavenly kingdom, for the divine polity breathed in all around him. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z For the impression made upon the mind of an intelligent foreigner by the general attention to popular education, as characteristic of the American polity, see Mackay’s Western World, Vol. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z At best the state's polity is deliberative, ruling the right as far as is practicable under the circumstances. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Men would not only have consecrated the principles of its polity but they would have seized on the visible constitution and points of practice and have battled for these to the death. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z That William stood in this relation to our modern English polity throughout his too short reign, and that he loyally discharged its obligations, is indisputable. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z The thing of all others which she could least venture to disclose was her polity, that episcopate with its centre in Rome which was the bond of her strength as a regimen. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z It was deemed a pointed and ungracious attack on executive polity. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z They rejected ancient and medieval ideas of a polity as a set of orders or estates. Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution 2011-07-22T20:44:19Z Christ gave only such a germ of external polity as the immediate need required. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z It was, perhaps, his genius which made the hearth-divinity preside over the little polity and confuse and identify for ever the pieties of the home with the pieties of citizenship. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z Thus the powers which are requisite for establishing and perpetuating this polity were recorded as having been conveyed to the Apostles under general heads. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Submission to a "higher will" as applied to man, is submission to arbitrary authority against which the whole polity of American life is a magnificent protest. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Thenceforth Judaism, which had been a blended worship and polity, ceased to be a polity, and became more intensely than ever, because more exclusively, a worship. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z If we go to Him looking for a Social system or an Ecclesiastical polity we find nothing of the sort. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z After that one act of creation, the Roman polity, Rome has been sterile; its function has been not to create but to criticise. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z In the churches which consciously shaped their polity at or after the Reformation the principle of excommunication is preserved in the practice of church discipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z There were reasons of State, reasons of polity, reasons of religion which he himself was not competent to enter into or to discuss, but which he accepted blindly then. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The ultimate concern of faith is not with a polity, not with a creed, not with a church, and not with a sacrament, but with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z Bahaism abolishes the Christian institutions—the Church, its sacraments, and its polity. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Liberals see a modern, powerful state where the military and the constitution guarantee a secular polity. Turkey Inspires Islamists and Liberals, But in Very Different Ways 2011-06-30T04:31:42Z Respecting the modes and forms of destruction to which they lead, and, on the other hand, respecting the farther practical working of true polity, I hope to reason further in a following paper. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z Dante could no more conceive of the spiritual life without the authoritative guidance of the all-present, all-pervading Church, than he could conceive of a well-ordered polity without the all-penetrating force of law. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z To describe the social polity of the Peruvians is to describe their religion, for the two were one and the same. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z This form of polity was not quite new in Greece or Asia Minor, but had remained obscure and unnoticed in earlier and more brilliant times. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z It was amid the disorders around him that the master of the Temple meditated to build up the great argument of polity, drawn from the nature of all laws, human and divine. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The 'Cornwallis Correspondence' gives a vivid picture of the vacillating nobleman, whose feeble attempts to stem the vigorous and unscrupulous polity of Lord Castlereagh might be humorous if they had not done so much harm. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z However, he made his concerns crystal clear: "What I worry about is that, in the context of broader tensions and problems within Pakistani society and polity... even the best nuclear security measures might break down." In safe hands? 2011-05-23T15:44:05Z Gaza, the other half of the Palestinian polity, was evacuated by the Israelis in 2005. Palestinians set on U.N. statehood bid in September 2011-05-21T11:57:27Z After a century’s lethargy the house of Capet awoke once more with Louis VI. and began the destruction of the feudal polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The term Commonweal explains itself; it specifies no particular polity but the public weal; and even the term republic originally meant nothing more than res public�, or “the affairs of the public.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Let us cherish, and defend, and build upon, the fundamental principles of that polity, and we shall most assuredly reap the golden fruits of unparalleled power, virtue and prosperity. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z And no matter what Fatah and Hamas agree, the Palestinian polity continues to operate within limits set by the Israeli occupation. Fatah-Hamas Deal Starts Rocky Road to Palestinian Independence 2011-05-05T09:18:41Z The moral polity of Allestone is not unlike that which prevails among the Emanations “who in the aggregate are called Jerusalem.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The Young Barbarians, when Rome's ecclesiastical polity got hold of them, were persuaded by their anxious foster-mother to sell their Scandinavian birthright of imagination for an unintelligible, theopathic mess of mystic Gr�co-Syrian pottage. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z What is true of human polity seems to me not less so of the distinctively political art of Architecture. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z American sympathy for Japan cannot be explained by the theory you put upon the American polity. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z But, on reflection, it will not appear surprising that we receive from this work so little insight into the doubtful and disputed points of Roman polity. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Such regimes are successful in the sense that they manage, as long as they last, to make people do what they are told; but once they fall, such polities can shatter into a thousand pieces. Failed states: Where life is cheap and talk is loose 2011-03-17T11:53:59Z It offers an almost insuperable obstacle to the development of a national opinion upon the fundamental principles of our polity. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z But not only did our philosopher restore the ancient rites of religion, he also paid much attention to the ancient polities and institutions. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z For thirty-six years of uneasy peace the polities of Europe centred upon that possibility. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z In a rightly ordered polity social and individual well-being alike would depend on that harmonious action of diverse elements, each performing its proper function, which in its social application is more naturally termed δικαιοσύνη. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Resuming the strain of Fortescue, Sir Thomas Smith, himself a civilian, wrote concerning the Commonwealth of England a book that claimed the attention of foreigners for her law and her polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The Baptists because of their church polity are of course not so thoroughly organized. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z It remains to speak of the most important change which William’s rearrangements made in the polity of England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z With this however was linked a strong traditional distrust of old-world polities and a habit of isolation from old-world entanglements. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Butler’s ordered polity of impulses turns out to be a polity with two independent governments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z To understand the capital effect both of this flight and of its failure, we must once more insist upon the supreme position of the monarchy in the traditions and instinct of French polity. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z The superior English polity in due time, however, spread its hand over Iberian chaos. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z When Rome changed from a Republic to an Empire, it was a real alteration of polity, or what may be called a corruption; yet in appearance the change was small. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Yet it is grievous to think, that in some instances a difference, which extended no further than to the outward polity of the Church, could dissever and almost alienate those whom grace had made one. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z But the democratic transformations in Eastern Europe occurred in short succession from one another because they shared an important element: the removal of the Soviet "hand" that weighed on their polities. Will Changes in Tunisia Sweep Region? 2011-01-17T20:15:49Z They brought with them from the home country a tenacious reverence for their fathers' method of worship and for the Calvinistic polity of the Dutch Reformed Church. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z Why should Mr. Balfour's doubts of a pre-Celtic polity put an end to all talk of Irish institutions and Irish ideas? The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z The political principles of Christianity, if it be right to use such words of a divine polity, are laid down for us in the Sermon on the Mount. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z He is inclined rather to personal rule or leadership than to a constitutional polity. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z As became its moral weight, it unanimously reported that the Congregational polity was the one most acceptable to the people of Ravensnest. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z There were reasons of polity, too, to move him to activity in their behalf. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z The close of the old Irish polity, the fate of the Irish Parliaments, have a deeper lesson to teach than the supposed faults of the Irish temper, Iberian, Celtic, or Norman. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Lastly, while Scripture nowhere recognizes itself or asserts the inspiration of those passages which are most essential, it distinctly anticipates the development of Christianity, both as a polity and as a doctrine. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z When Strongbow landed there had been hardly any sign of permanent union or of the foundation of a settled polity. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z And we're beginning to see signs of this in our own polity. 'Hysteresis': An ugly word for an increasingly ugly economic situation 2010-10-09T00:50:00Z “And now it’s time to get into the nub of the challenge facing China, which is, what sort of polity do you want?” Talk of Reform to Enliven Leaders? Meeting in China 2010-09-30T03:36:00Z A disorganized and contentious people, incapable of rightly using any polity Irish or English, we have not, it is said, even the materials of a nation. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Again, perhaps there are polities founded on no ideas at all, but on mere custom, as among the Asiatics. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z The see-sawing negotiations are emblematic of India's fractured polity, and highlight the challenges ahead for the government, which is involved in torturous negotiations on other key financial reform proposals with opposition and allies. Indian parliament's lower house approves nuclear bill 2010-08-25T13:47:00Z The Episcopal bishop of California accused Williams of "creating a different kind of Anglicanism, more like the centralized, doctrinalised polity of the Roman Catholic Church." Latest Anglican peace bid meets with skepticism 2010-06-02T12:39:00Z This mindset marks the decline of our polity. The business of America is kleptocracy 2010-04-20T21:21:00Z “Televise this chief justice and this president on stage at the Kennedy Center for three hours talking about the role of government and the future of our polity,” Mr. Edley said. Barack Obama v. John Roberts: The Struggle to Come 2010-04-17T21:14:00Z This is a real danger to the wider polity. These ingeniously reckless Repo men must be stopped | John Lanchester 2010-03-19T19:30:00Z "We congratulated the Acting President for stabilizing the polity in the country at the moment," Bukola Saraki, chairman of the Governors' Forum, told reporters after a meeting with Jonathan in the capital Abuja. Nigeria's powerful state governors back acting leader 2010-03-02T22:51:00Z History.—Assam was the province of Bengal which remained most stubbornly outside the limits of the Mogul empire and of the Mahommedan polity in India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The value of real independence in politics is one answer, and the idea of federation among competing states, or of international polity as a basis of successful national life, is another. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The condition of the whole Roman polity is tranquillised with the tranquillity of the faith. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII In spite of his weakness, Artaxerxes I. was not unsuccessful in his polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" We have drawn attention in a former chapter to the strict gradation of social rank in the city polity. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Here lay the real weakness of the Celtic polity. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race In savage sort they framed and kept a polity of the kind which Aristotle tells us is the most perfect type of constitution, being a mixture of oligarchy and democracy. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical This is the necessity of considering the Church as the one kingdom of Christ in all ages: one and the same polity from the Day of Pentecost to the Day of Judgment. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII In the first place the medieval anti-Semitism was still an integral part of the polity of the empire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" In delivering his charge to the grand jury in 1803, Judge Chase made sundry remarks upon the polities of the day reflecting upon certain acts of the democratic party. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution True, the Celt did not himself create any great architectural work of literature, just as he did not create a stable or imposing national polity. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race This change was effected by the new polity of the princes. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Hence our Christian polity has been led into much variance and strife; the parties do not agree, and thus it is injured in many ways. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII But where, in his career, belongs the glory of having put an end to the Holy Roman Empire, or of having destroyed the polity of the Europe of the old maps? The Sources Of Religious Insight The Methodist Protestant Churches are not placed in either of these groups because their polity resembles, in some respects, that of the Congregational and in others that of the Episcopal churches. Six Thousand Country Churches Clothes gave us individuality, distinction, social polity; Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens of us. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The minor things and the weak things are the most numerous, and they have played the greatest part in the polity of nature. The Holy Earth Since the beginning of the world has no other man—mere man—ever exerted so boundless an influence on the human race in the relations of religion, morality, and polity as Mohammed, the Arab. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII You cannot end war without changing the international polity which leads to war. American World Policies Differences as to church polity are not sufficiently great to constitute a dangerous obstacle to the progress of church unity among the Protestant rural churches of Ohio. Six Thousand Country Churches An ordered theocracy seems to him the only polity capable of giving peace and true prosperity to the world, and he shapes all his theories so as to fit in with this central conception. A Short History of French Literature The polity of early settlements was largely the polity of the sea and the strand. The Holy Earth Thus it came about that a polity of pleasure was established whose citizens were linked together by ties of laughter. Carnival A league to enforce peace is a futility unless it is also a league to determine international polity. American World Policies As the people took this oath in the capacity of citizens, we may see here the basis laid for that theocratic system which subsequently became peculiarly characteristic of the Genevan polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" From climate Montesquieu passes to the nature of the soil, as in its turn affecting civil polity. A Short History of French Literature Besides the place of woman in the cult of the country, she had high position in the dynastic as well as domestic polity and customs of the land. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The prince and peer were unwilling to p. 206admit of changes in polity, in religion, or in law, which to them could bring no good, and might possibly bring harm. About London The same principle pervades our laws and institutions, and is in a great measure the fruit or effect of the feudal polity. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards Retiring to Shottesbrooke in Berkshire, and living on the produce of a small estate in Ireland, he devoted himself to the study of chronology and ecclesiastical polity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Then an abrupt return is made from the effects to the causes of constitutions and polity. A Short History of French Literature She had proved the possibility of woman as an element in the polity and progress of the State. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land the 10th of June 1720. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts This polity existed equally in Britain, where the Church became a rich and powerful corporation, often rivalling and occasionally transcending the feudal Barons in wealth, dignities, and influence. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards Dodwell’s works on ecclesiastical polity are more numerous and of much less value than those on chronology, his judgment being far inferior to his power of research. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The potent reasons of public polity which would also have absolutely excluded Isabelle and Edward III. have been mentioned above, and are stated in a different way by Froissart. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) This may have been wiser in tribal polity than agreeable to the warriors; as for the prospective brides, their preferences were not taken into account at all. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) She possessed an intricate, if uncompleted national polity when the neighbouring island was peopled by distinct and scattered populations of conquerors. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis He tried to institute a prosecution; but the polities of the village were then in such a state of agitation that no business of public import was properly attended to. Black Forest Village Stories Quakerism, with such fundamental principles of equality in constant practice, became a social polity. Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania His polities, however, are not in question here; the attraction is of a different order.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The Covenanters were thus named because in a series of bands or covenants they bound themselves to maintain the Presbyterian doctrine and polity as the sole religion of their country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Cases concerning an interpretation of the Constitution are vital to a whole people, and, as between two nations, vital to international safety and polity. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis Such are the salient features of the Homeric polity. Greek Women Penn, in this wise, become an expanded embodiment of Fox and Sidney; and, appropriating their mingled faith and polity, discarded every thing that was doctrinal and not practical, and realized, in government, their united wisdom. Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania In the demolishing process which properly precedes, in a long-established polity, the constructing process, he has every quality which would fit him to be a leader. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 |
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