In addition, the morale of the staff was enhanced
by the idealistic, energetic and caring interns.
We are different from a zoo in that we are a non-profit run
by idealistic volunteers who love and want to help animals.
Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, «Hick,» as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed
by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor.
Itâ $ ™ s clear that the current generation of standards - based reforms, while necessary and yielding some progress, has been nowhere near sufficient to achieve the kind of ambitious goals, such as universal â $ œproficiencyâ $ set
by idealistic reformers.
But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he's drawn into the investigation
by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents and his own father.
Wichita superficially resembles some John Ford westerns because of Earp (a character in Ford's My Darling Clementine and Cheyenne Autumn), because the romantic interest is played by Vera Miles (who would later turn up in The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and because the town has a newspaper run
by an idealistic but ineffectual drunk (like Edmond O'Brien in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).
Our societal expectations of pregnancy may in fact be influenced
by this idealistic portrayal.
These new schools have been set up
by idealistic people who are determined to give parents the kind of choice that only the rich can currently afford.The first 24 free schools are enormously popular and I expect this second wave to be equally successful.
This Afghan policy was very much influenced by «Pashtunistanism,» driven
by idealistic and principled causes (i.e. supporting Pashtuns and Balochs» right to self - determination, not recognizing the Durand line, and most of all continuing to claim as Afghan land territory lost in the 1893 Durand agreement, parts of today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan).
Many towns in the Dakota Territory were named after Union heroes, and the shared experience of veterans provided an immediate sense of social solidarity that was strongly colored
by an idealistic patriotism.
Traditional institutions were under siege
by idealistic youth rejecting what they viewed as mass - marketed delusions.
Not exact matches
As I sit in his private meeting room in Livestrong's 35,000 - square - foot offices, a LEED - certified beauty that's all skylights and reclaimed wood, it's easy to imagine Ulman as that
idealistic young athlete, suddenly derailed
by cancer.
Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power
by letting go,» but these directives don't seem
idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.
Satoshi Nakamoto's
idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded
by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment have become dominated
by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.
In this view the
idealistic Soviet experiment under Lenin was rudely distorted
by Stalin, whose brutal character and methods discredited communism.
Poor lonely
idealistic me, feeling boxed in
by my era's and suburb's Reaganite «complacency,» coming to notice, I thought, how so many bad things could be traced to «capitalism.»
I know it sounds simplistic and
idealistic but I truly believe that if we are motivated
by the love of Christ, paying attention to the leading of the Holy Spirit and our friends around us, we'll look after one another well and disciple each other
by pointing one another to Jesus as the true Shepherd.
This broad, liberal creed supported
by a set of
idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.
The movie within a movie tells the story of
idealistic film director Sebastian, who has finally managed to fund his dramatization of the conquista
by shooting in cheap and politically corrupt Bolivia.
It was the beginning of the Olympic Games, so I was still basking in the
idealistic glow of the opening ceremonies, impressed
by the commitment and talent of the most gifted competitors in the world, and awed
by the staggering feats of athleticism that appeared on my TV screen each night.
The proposal that aggression should be resisted
by hugging a terrorist is not
idealistic; it is simply dumb.
In the most recent Republican debate, several Republican candidates tried to distinguish themselves from the
idealistic Rubio
by pointing out that Syria was more peaceful (and less of a source of global terror) when the Assad regime ran the whole country, and that Bashar al - Assad might be the lesser evil compared to ISIS.
Among many intellectuals, Communists still have the reputation of having been
idealistic heroes motivated
by the fight against fascism.
The younger generation is too realistic and
idealistic to be taken in
by barbarism, even on the technological level.
For no matter how hard I try, however eloquent, dynamic, or (at desperate moments) guilt - inducing I may be on Friday afternoon, on Monday morning my arguments have fallen flat and sunk into the muck,
idealistic words overwhelmed
by a depressingly powerful reality: Sunday Mass at the parish.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an
idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated
by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered
by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.
With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an
idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed
by history.
Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved
by more
idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.
1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from
idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established
by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.
I concluded the Songbook # 6 essay
by quoting Chantal Delsol in partial defense of, or rather, in sympathetic re-conceptualization of, the
idealistic anti-war impulse.
No human love, it is held, even the most
idealistic, can be said to embody agape, the love of God, for human love is always limited and ambiguous in its object, and is corrupted
by human selfishness in its essential spirit.
He sees the concern of the atomic scientists as misguided, «a youthful philosophy, enthusiastic,
idealistic, and colored
by eagerness for self - sacrifice.»
As
idealistic as it may sound, Zimmern has a point in saying that we may be able to solve our problems
by pretty much sitting at the table with our neighbors.
With an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that
idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired
by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disease.
On the contrary, the first option may be too optimistic and therefore too
idealistic in assuming that security can be established and perpetuated
by military domination without provoking uncontrollable resentment or bankrupting the dominating state.
By identifying God with infinity, Gregory puts himself into a hole that he can never quite fill with his
idealistic view of matter.
The romantic or
idealistic love between a teenage boy and girl (frequently still to be found even in our modern sensualised world) may also be accompanied
by a desire to show bodily affection - a desire filled with a tenderness and respect that operate as a curb, not only on lust if it seeks to assert itself, but also on bodily expressions of love which would not be true to the real existential relationship between the couple.
James's world might look like those of the subjective idealist or the
idealistic Romantic because it was engendered
by the imagination; but it was not, for unlike theirs it came without the assurance that it rested on external foundations.
And when God acts in this way, these moments are associated with such joy that no one could possibly understand unless they've at some time committed wholeheartedly to an
idealistic dream of making something happen, getting all embroiled and churned up
by the process and then being released at the other end.
Church history is of course full of just such
idealistic new starts and, not infrequently, some degree of disillusionment followed
by routine performance without much zest or imagination.
Those who distinguish between the «young» and «old» Marx claim that the ideas of the young Marx contained in The Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 18444 were abandoned
by the older and mature Marx as remnants of an
idealistic past connected with Hegel's teaching.
This function of an
idealistic ethical symbol, this affirmation that the moral act is an expression of the love and the will of the universal Spirit, is characteristic of the religious and Christian Ethic, the Ethic of love and of the anxious search for the divine presence, which, as a result of narrow partisanship or lack of insight, is spurned and vilified today
by vulgar rationalists and intellectualists,
by so - called free - thinkers and similar riff - raff who frequent Masonic lodges.
Stephen, if you think the discrimination only starts when people try to engage in «leadership» (which can be very broadly construed,
by the the way), I have to wonder if you: a) have any experience with churches b) have any experience with discrimination Because you seem quite
idealistic about the first, and naïve about the second.
Whether you agree or sympathise with their reasons for doing so the fact is that Wenger, the
idealistic bastard he is, had hoped they would stick around and in the process stick two fingers up at the rest of the football world
by winning the biggest prizes on offer.
My personal opinion is that computers and Play - stations should not have ANY place in a young child's life (and should be severely limited at any age) however I know that my
idealistic nature is not shared
by all parents.
It wears its left - wing politics on its sleeve and turns the tried - and - tested «
idealistic good guy vs corrupt bad guy» narrative on its head,
by showing considerable sympathy for the Democrat incumbent Cogswell is trying to unseat, while all the while encouraging you to vote for its protagonist.
The conditions on Sturgeon's doorstep are very different from the
idealistic rhetoric used
by the first minister
That I get consulted on party policy making a fair bit is actually really cool, I love the
idealistic democracy they operate
by, and am using it.
A Very British Coup
by Chris Mullin — which, of course, is entirely fictitious and borne from the overactive imagination of a young and
idealistic left - wing political figure.
It is viewed as an
idealistic mirage that will come crashing down to political reality
by the time the general election rolls around.