Sentences with phrase «aristocracy in»

Public land ownership, he argued in a recent editorial, was designed to prevent the appearance of a landed aristocracy in Israel.

In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.

Following a recurring theme in his work Shonibare has removed the figure's heads, calling to mind the guillotined fate that awaited the excessive and corrupt French aristocracy in the 18th Century.

The 2018 menu is inspired by the «Grand Tour», i.e. the long journey across the Old Continent undertaken in the seventeenth century by the European aristocracy in a quest to expand their knowledge.

Originally bred as a companion dog to the aristocracy in Cuba, they are part of the Bichon family of dogs.

Bred as a companion dog to the Cuban aristocracy in the 1800s, he's earned the nickname «Velcro dog» because he sticks so closely to his owner's side.

Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all - night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.

Director James Ivory's graceful direction and Pierre Lhomme's lush cinematography delicately capture repressed passion among early 20th - century English aristocracy in Maurice.

The year is 1874, and the aristocracy in Russia still holds sway.

Charles is introduced to aristocracy in the wealthy Catholic Marchmains and their lovely palatial home Brideshead.

Ibrahim describes how Stromer, born into German aristocracy in 1871, became a prolific writer, researcher and explorer.

This comes across a number of problems in the post-1789 world, and can't functionally apply to a pre-1789 world (The Party and the Faction, for example); it pre-supposes a bourgeois triumph over the aristocracy in terms of the dominant mode of production and property form.

Palamite Zealotes massacred Thessalonian aristocracy in preparation for Cantacuzene usurpation via hesychast hyperventilatory hallucination.

Labour MP Chris Bryant hammers away at the ruthlessness and greed of the aristocracy in this no - holds barred critique.

The founding fathers were concerned enough about this to reject inherited titles and the other trappings of European aristocracy in favor of an egalitarian society, in which privilege was not heritable.

Sure, dozens of Chinese state - owned behemoths have joined the global corporate aristocracy in the past two decades.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

Not exact matches

It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

Further, Geck's suggestion that stylistic differences in Bach's Leipzig cantatas were colored by the larger sociological desires of a bourgeoisie wishing to enjoy the full range of musical entertainments available to the aristocracy is intriguing and may prove to be persuasive.

Beginning with Polybios in the 2nd century BC, many political philosophers concluded that the best constitution is one that incorporates elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy into a composite form.

In the process, Christianity absorbed much from the aristocracy» in attitudes toward wealth, family, honor, the importance of friendship, and political poweIn the process, Christianity absorbed much from the aristocracy» in attitudes toward wealth, family, honor, the importance of friendship, and political powein attitudes toward wealth, family, honor, the importance of friendship, and political power.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

The Muslim aristocracy was feudal in character, depending on levies enlisted from the middle and lower classes of Muslims, usually of the same nationality as the feudal leader.

St Thomas Aquinas recognised that all citizens should have some share and say in government, whether the system be a monarchy, aristocracy or some variety of electoral democracy (ST. I - II Q. 105 art.

We should further learn from the same Constitution that the Church really does not teach a two - tier theory of her members, according to which some would trot along the common road, hoping nevertheless to arrive at God, while the others, priests and religious, constituting as it were the aristocracy, walk in more exalted paths.

The Cobb family had been leaders in the Southern slave - holding plantation aristocracy.

And in this world the drift toward perpetuating these inequalities by one form of aristocracy or another is powerful.

In this polemic against the mass, the crowd, Kierkegaard could never be justly accused of parading a new snobbish aristocracy, a small upper - house of supermen.

I do think Stillman is aware of most of these downsides, but in any case, his film convinced me that there was more to that scene than we might think, namely, that at its best, it sought and to some extent achieved a more natural form of aristocracy - within - democracy than rock ever has.

If we compare and contrast the aristocratic character of rock with that of disco, by using the two films in question, we see that disco's aristocracy is more natural, whereas rock's is more heroic.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to placIn aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to placin democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

It means self - government of a given body of people, as contrasted with non-democratic political systems in which rule is in the hands of a hereditary monarch, of a dictator, of an aristocracy (noblemen or intellectuals), of a class (rich people, the proletariat, or priests), or of a limited party.

The Holy Roman «Empirers» / Popes / Kings / Queens / evangelists / Mormons et al continued the money grab selling access to JC and heaven resulting in some of today's richest organizations on the globe i.e. the Christian churches (including the Mormon Church) and related aristocracies / heirarchies.

The Holy Roman «Empirers» / Popes / Kings / Queens / Evangelists et al continued the money grab selling access to JC and heaven resulting in some of today's richest organizations on the globe i.e. the Christian churches (including the Mormon Church) and related aristocracies.

In the aristocratic view it is assumed that esthetic judgments are relevant only to certain kinds of activity and are reserved for the aristocracy only.

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

France, in the throws of the revolution had huge issues with the church and clergy which owned most of the land and were trying to co-opt the revolution and create a theocracy by installing the church into the vacancy left by the aristocracy.

Rather complex sets of historical variables are summarized in the relations among state church, state, and aristocracy, and these relations then determine where a religious reform movement is likely to turn for support, which becomes a decisive factor in shaping the movement's views of the state.

Prussian Pietism, in contrast, developed in the context of a feudal aristocracy that gave it a relatively weak economic base.

In the main the priestly aristocracy and their immediate adherents tended to be friendly, or subservient, to the Romans.

One was a priest, another was a member of the aristocracy of that period, possibly both were returning from worshiping in the temple in Jerusalem.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

The enlarging sphere of state management in the economy, paralleled by the emergence of an enormous military - CIA machine that engages in thousands of secret acts not subject to popular perusal, has brought the nation to a new configuration of power, a new type of aristocracy.

Huxley originated the myth of a «war» between science and religion, but in reality the war he waged was against the privileges of the aristocracy and the English state church.

No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.

And, in any case, aristocracy is the strong sense — including the aristocratic features of the philosophy of the Greeks and Romans — was bound to fade away over time in the face of the truthful Christian insight about the unique irreplaceability of every human person.

An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by Benjamin R. Barber Ballantine Books, 370 pages, $ 20 «In the spring of 1988,» writes Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers, «[University] President Edward Bloustein gave a....