Sentences with phrase «national allegiance»

«Ofili's Union Black asks questions about British identity, the colonial legacy and the meaning of national allegiance which remain as relevant today as they were when the work was created 14 years ago,» said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, in a press statement.

Sherman, that's true, of course: stupidity and ignorance, not national allegiance, are the primary risk factors for bigotry.

April 11 — Barcelona forward Munir El Haddadi has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in his bid to switch national allegiance from Spain to Morocco ahead of the World Cup.

The Internet has played a part, as has the introduction of proportional representation at various non-Westminster elections: voting is habit - forming and people who have backed smaller parties at, say, Scottish or European elections can not automatically be recalled to their older national allegiances.

Played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Snowden begins as a true conservative believer in national allegiance, someone inspired by 9/11 to make a difference.

One can not read Daša Drndić's compelling novel Trieste without being intrigued by its namesake - the affluent and cosmopolitan industrial seaport city of 200,000 residents with historically fluid national allegiances.

This tightly conceived show engages in subversive, mostly ironic ways with gender politics and notions of national allegiance.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

And it's here that argument often grinds to an embarrassed halt: Our national allegiance to individual freedom makes a negative response seem narrow, even cruel.

Sadly, evangelicalism has ceased to represent the Kingdom of God, which transcends all political parties and national allegiances, and has come to represent kingdoms of this world.

There was always going to be at least one «pundit» who would stick their oar in with regards the national allegiances of James McCarthy and Aiden McGeady in advance of our...

Political agendas, national allegiances, racial / religious / gender differences pale in the face of rampant degradation of global ecosystems, reckless dissipation of our planetary home's finite resources, and dwindling biodiversity worldwide.