Sentences with word «anciens»
The word "anciens" means "old" or "former" in French. It refers to people or things that existed or were in a certain place or position in the past. Full definition
The «conflict thesis» of science and religion was born in the salons of ancien régime France, where philosophes like Voltaire and d'Alembert used it as a weapon against the Catholic Church.
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At no time in ancien régime Spain — neither in the Castilian revolts of 1520 nor the Andalusian urban risings of 1648 nor in any other act of social unrest — did the populace attack the Inquisition as a religious institution.
Both Jews and Christians should have learned enough from modern history to know that the only means available for restoration of any such ancien regime come from Fascism in its various guises — the most hideous caricature of the Kingdom of God.
The perks were revealing: they illustrated the extent to which corporate leaders now expect to be treated like ancien régime royalty.
When the wealthy become accustomed to their own wealth, straight conspicuous consumption loses its appeal and the nouveaux riches turn into anciens riches.
But should acute Nigerians interpret that, given IBB's past record and Saraki / Melaye's current labours, as worrying symbol of the ethically challenged ancien regime, rousing itself, after two years of searing heat, to gamely confront its nemesis?
For example, under the French ancien regime people were forced to accept the religious preferences of the state (Roman catholicism).
It co-opted, undermined, or defeated anciens régimes and aspired to transcend class by creating a unitary Volk.
But the tour is deeply rooted in the local love for les vehicules anciens, with eyeful after eyeful of cars we'd rarely seen, if ever, like Ford and Renault torpedoes, one from 1912, the other from 1913, and a Rosengart SuperTraction Cabriolet.
For those who don't already know it has nothing to do with manicured gardens, and everything to do with the heady natural beauty that combines ancien...
«This war banquet is a battle royal between ancien regime sugar and revolutionary porcelain.
«old board» has the same meaning as «board» in subsection 1 (1) of this Act, as it read immediately before the Education Quality Improvement Act, 1997 received Royal Assent, and includes The Metropolitan Toronto School Board but does not include a school authority; («ancien conseil»)
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McBrien and the ancien régime of theology at Notre Dame, they represent a generation that tends toward, to put it delicately, flabby and uncritical accommodationism.
America was blessedly unencumbered by an ancien régime.
Hobbes and Locke are reeling from the so - called «wars of religion,» and Rousseau had his fill of the French Catholic Church's rather too cozy relationship with the French aristocracy (the ancien regime).
And class had to struggle hard against the stratification system of the ancien regime, which was based, not on money, but on descent and honor.
But birth and descent were also of crucial importance in the social orders of feudalism and the ancien regime.
By sweeping away the ancien régime, the Jacobins and their successors unwittingly took a long first step toward freeing the Church from the often suffocating embrace of Catholic monarchs who thought they, and not the pope or the bishops, should be in charge of Catholicism in their country or empire.
The forces of «progress» and «enlightenment» were powerfully anticlerical and often anti-Christian, pitted against an ancien regime that was allied with the church.
This necessarily involves a look at the tensions, debates and passions marking the era from Vatican I to Vatican II: a Church struggling with dramatic changes in European politics as the last vestiges of the ancien regime toppled.
After conjuring a vision of the Queen of France in her youthful glory, Burke waxes indignant at her rude treatment by Revolutionary democrats, and he laments the passing of the ancien régime:
Both partied without break under the ancien regime, just as both had been faithful partners with the northern power elite, they now love to hate, from 1960 till 2015.
«I find if offensive, insulting, irrelevant and positively cretinous to be told — sometimes by people who can barely speak a foreign language — that I belong to a group of small - minded xenophobes; because the truth is it is Brexit that is now the great project of European liberalism, and I am afraid that it is the European Union — for all the high ideals with which it began, that now represents the ancien regime.»
That moral ambush, for whatever motivation, gave the ancien regime the false hope they could pull off their diversionary tactics.
They would wish a grand abuse of federal power, with the same Police, DSS and Army, that aided the PDP Rivers impunity back then, at their own beck and call too — and certainly, they would be thrilled to see Wike shrill and complain as Amaechi did, under the ancien regime.
Fascism was ultra-conservative; accommodating of Church, monarchy, elites, and other elements of the ancien régime; and mindful of social hierarchy (the classes or orders of the corpus).
Ed Balls was going to be the fall guy: the fiscally cautious brake, preventing Labour from pitching an expansive policy platform to the electorate; the man who stifled his leader's radical inclinations, a shadow chancellor who was just too associated with the mistakes of the ancien régime.
I'm sure she'll get credit over time and has avoided doing things that look like they pander to the «mincing metrosexual» school that caused so much upset and division under the ancien regime.
Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.
(The ancien cuisine dinner of beef tournedos, however, was held in a rented recording studio down the street.)
The ancien regime (accent on the «e» implied, and a bunch of other things, too) relied on the integrity of the lawyers involved.