Sentences with phrase «judgment of history»
But what will be hard will be the harsh judgment of history on the President and Secretary of State that allows this pipeline - and the subsequent tipping points of climate change - to come to pass.
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He recognizes that the courts might be pressed again to defer to military decision - making («I would not lead people to rely on this Court for a review that seems to me wholly delusive») and proposes that the chief constraint against this unconstitutional action is the executive's «responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of history.»
Such a policy reversal won't spare Bush the harsh judgment of history, but it would spare the country the worst consequences of his mistakes.
Yet when the judgment of history is in, I suspect that Charles Moulton will be credited with having done more to bring about the emancipation of women than did that...
The judgment of history (to which Marxism appealed as the ultimate arbiter) and the teaching of the Church have turned decisively against them.
Yet when the judgment of history is in, I suspect that Charles Moulton will be credited with having done more to bring about the emancipation of women than did that figure that the Christian tradition has named the Virgin Mary.
The nation's founders far more than our contemporaries saw themselves as acting under the judgment of history.
President Lincoln saw himself as acting under the judgments of history and of God.
The narrative of lament and hope prophesies that the judgment of history can be delayed but not denied.
«No religion,» writes T. S. Eliot in his famous essay on Lancelot Andrewes, «can survive the judgment of history unless the best minds of its time have collaborated in its construction.»
The General is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history.»
ANYONE WITH SERIOUS interest in visual art needs to read this book: that is simply the judgment of history, which supersedes any mere reviewer's recommendation.
«And they have their eye on the judgment of history, rather than the judgment of the mass electorate,» adds Skocpol, who has written widely on the politics of global warming.