Sentences with phrase «of national allegiance»

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

With the invocation of national allegiance as an inherent contradiction, the documentary blooms its larger, allegorical inklings.

Not exact matches

Vestments will be worn, colors that designate allegiance to a particular national team, some adorned with the names of individual players.

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

He had no dreams of empire or national glory, the ends proclaimed by Hamilton in his effort to shift power and allegiance to the political center.

But Heidegger's allegiance to the National Socialists and his appointment to the rectorship of the University of Freiburg by Hitler can not be explained simply by ignorance or deviance.

A State is a sovereign political unit to which its citizens as members of a national community owe allegiance.

Their allegiance implied rejection of all other gods and service of him alone in ritual and in national and social obedience.

Globalization means that all kinds of allegiances — personal, family, religious and national — are increasingly subject to global concerns.

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

And as a cultural festival, it commands vast allegiance while dramatizing and reinforcing the religious myths of national innocence and apotheosis.

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.

In a country where familial and regional allegiances often run counter to conceptions of national identity, a shared love of soccer brings people together.

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.

One potential complication in January is Zaha's decision to switch his allegiance from England to the Ivory Coast national team, meaning he is expected to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon in January.

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.

The national pledge is an oath of allegiance or a solemn promise to support the country and is usually recited after the national anthem.

In general, a lot of the notions of allegiances other than to a national government are rolled into the concept of «civil society» as a such of thought in political theory.

The chairman who was suspended in November 2015 over his allegiance to their interdicted NPP National Chairman, Paul Afoko and his supporters from across the constituency, had gathered at Ga to address the media when the Upper West regional organizer of the NPP, Issahaku Seidu, a.k.a Alele, allegedly led thugs from the Wa Central branch of the party to disrupt the programme.

Mr. Duncan has extended federal sway even beyond the controversial provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, further defying the national pledge of allegiance to local control of public schools.

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.

Mosse photographs both the rich topography, inscribed with the traces of conflicting interests, as well as rebel groups of constantly shifting allegiances at war with the Congolese national army (itself a patchwork of recently integrated warlords and their militias).

About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)

The President of the Council cavorting with young women, the allegations of shady connections, slippery financial arrangements, dubious political allegiances, and all - round dodgy dealings are as nothing when compared to this monstrous act of national betrayal.

Where is our national unity and pride when our declaration of allegiance to the Canadian Crown is publicly misrepresented for 15 years?