Sentences with phrase «century statesman»

Located in the northern corner of the state, Waynesboro was named after the 18th - century statesman and U.S. Army General Anthony Wayne.

Located in the northern corner of the state, Waynesboro was named after the 18th - century statesman and U.S. Army General Anthony Wayne.

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Fathers especially can take as their model the patron of statesmen, St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England in the 16th century, who was once described in The Sunday Times newspaper as «the most saintly of humanists, and the most human of saints».13

In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 1939.

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

The Syllabus, then, is a perennially valid frame of reference for coming to grips with the revolt of modern thinkers and statesmen against the Church, from the Reformation through the Enlightenment and into the buzzing swarm of - isms of the past century and a half.

Missionary statesmen in the 19th century saw quite clearly where the vernacular principle was leading, and they welcomed it as the supreme reward of Christian discipleship.

More than a century ago, Dutch statesman Abraham Kuyper coined the term «sphere sovereignty» to account for the diverse forms of community found in the mature society.

In the East, syncretism has received a powerful boost during the past century from such Indian leaders as the great Hindu mystic Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekenanda, Mahatma Gandhi, and the philosopher - statesman Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

It has been praised for centuries by statesman, philosophers, poets and scholars and has been with us since civilization began and will be with us indefinitely.

In the fourth edition of Webster's — among the timeless explorers, artists, inventors and statesmen — are a mere dozen 20th - century sports figures.

This thought recurred throughout the century, as we find it sixty years later in the Knights of Labor's central paper: ««the workers can hope for nothing favorable at the hands of governments, nor of politicians, nor of statesmen.

In the late 18th and 19th centuries (the Old Testament period of US foreign relations as McDougall terms it), US statesmen crafted strategies designed to secure the fledgling American republic from the intrigues of international politics and the threats of other nations.

In Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer (Bloomsbury, # 20), Peter Clarke chronicles the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter of a century, his four - volume A History of the English - Speaking Peoples.

Being born and raised in a spiritually well - established family in Karnataka, KavithaJi's upbringing was instilled with all the values and teachings of Basavanna (one ofthe greatest saints in 12th - century and a highly - distinguished Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet).

With five years» involvement in Sudan, George Clooney has begun to define a new role for himself: 21st - century celebrity statesman.

In the late 19th century, statesmen feared that Catholic immigrants were less than civilized (and less than white).

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation — and perhaps any — came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries.

Many have proclaimed Winston Churchill the greatest statesman of the 20th century.

Recommended reading A statue in Bloomsbury Square of the 18th - century British statesman Charles James Fox prompts Tom Crewe to think about the UK's public statuary in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.

Widely known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century and the savior of Western civilization, a Nobel Prize winner, and the subject of a recent Academy Award - nominated film, more people than...

Couldn't some combination of 21st century audio and video equipment adequately and accurately capture what is said in court, for far less money and without many of the calamitous outcomes described in the Statesman article?

The elder statesman also speaks fondly of the now - retired Don Lawby, who joined Century 21 in 1976 as a sales associate and rose to become its president in 1988.