Sentences with phrase «mean imposition»

That their campaign to bring America «back to God» will, if successful, mean the imposition of their deeply felt religious values upon the nation at large goes without saying.

I shall use that term broadly to mean imposition of the will of one people on others expressing itself militarily and territorially when appropriate.

If violence means the imposition of one's will upon another, it is not limited to acts like rape and murder but also embraces such deeds as boycotts, verbal threats and oppressive economic structures.

Not exact matches

During closing arguments in the trial earlier this week, Leon asked the Justice Department's lead attorney, Craig Conrath, whether the imposition of a remedy would mean that the court was recognizing that there is anticompetitive harm.

The imposition of this imagery of the covenant, ritual on the cathedral's aisle highlights the central truth of covenant which in turn highlights the meaning of the eastward journey to which the Cathedral's architecture invites us: the covenant was a contract not of goods but of persons.

The ten essays collected in In Search of Lost Meaning range broadly, from «anniversary» pieces (of the 1989 elections, the emergence of Solidarity, the imposition of martial law, and Hungary's 1956 revolt) to treatments of historical memory and judgment (that part of the book is titled «The Work of Hatred») to Catholic «Jewish relations.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

But the continued war with the Northern Alliance, imposition of severe Islamic code of conduct by the Taliban, and three years of draught escalated the misery and suffering of the population out of proportion to the means they possessed and the materials provided by the rest of the world.

The expression may seem paradoxical: dictatorship means that there is a top - down imposition, while relativism implies the denial of absolutes and reacts against anything it considers as «top - down», such as truth, revelation, reality, morality.

Promises of an afterlife a plenty have, for as long as religion has existed, been a means to enable the voluntary imposition of unacceptable conditions of existence and the gratuitous tolerance of suffering.

The problems as to the legitimacy of moral education in the pubic schools disappear, however, if the proper content of moral education is recognized to be the values of justice which themselves prohibit the imposition of beliefs of one group upon another... [This] does not mean that the schools are not to be «value - oriented.»

Law is not a work of heteronomous (external) imposition but a work of wisdom, and good law facilitates our achievement of the human goods that we instinctively seek because of who we are and what we are meant to be as human beings.

Given that a state statute like the one passed in Florida can overcome another state statute, and that no federal law in place currently prohibits the imposition of this age limit; the absence of a constitutional limitation preventing a twenty - one year old age limit to buy guns means that the law is constitutional and valid.

So if there is a caucus, it means there is caucus of imposition using the clout of the National leader to perpetrate there unconstitutional atrocities and probably they may said to be the

Understanding of and capacity to facilitate witness consciousness and embodied presence, and what it means to empower students in self - discovery without imposition of teacher agenda.

ESSA should mean a rollback of federal impositions on states.

Despite selling almost exclusively off road vehicles meant to endure harsher conditions and greater driving impositions and hazards, most wheels are constructed of alloy, a maverick move considering most vehicles built for utility are steel rims (not necessarily for quality reasons, but finishes on alloy wheels are generally more easily ruined).

In contemporary U.S. culture, abstract art is difficult for many to grasp because it so completely defeats the imposition of language on art that cultural meaning falls away.

I am willing to guess that the imposition of the new standards plus modest increases in the real price of gasoline could mean that 2030 fuel use for U.S. cars and light trucks will be at about its 2007 level despite a hefty increase in both income and population.

The efficacy - weighted mean period from the imposition of incremental forcing to the end of the historical period is of this order.

Administrative proceedings which could lead to the imposition of «criminal sanctions» in the meaning of Article 6 ECHR, are excluded.

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