Sentences with phrase «political imagination of»

Before it has even got underway, the leaders» debate has been far from a shining example of how to stir the political imagination of the UK electorate.

I mean the period from Napoleon's fall to Hitler's rise, in which the political imagination of many Catholics was dominated precisely by the medieval sancta respublica that Andrew Willard Jones describes in his book.

We can dismiss his socialism as an unworkable throwback, but he's doing something our political establishment can't or won't, which is to inspire the political imaginations of middle class voters.

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It is one without too much economic literature behind it (I am not well read by any stretch of the most generous imagination) and almost no political doctrine.

For the moment, the Franken candidacy still exists mostly in the imaginations of political analysts.

«We have now reached a point where European integration, in order to survive, needs a bold leap of political imagination,» ECB president Mario Draghi said on May 24.

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

But the years of fighting changed the place of the military in the Canadian public imagination — and Canadian political calculations.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

A: We know that there is enough political rhetoric out there and we wanted it to capture the imagination, we wanted it to be something poetic and not just force - feeding people political answers, because there's enough of that out there.

The political slogans were hand - painted; stencils would certainly have made it possible to produce them en masse, but it would have offended the creative imagination of the authors.

This rapid decline of the political imagination and discourse of the American left in the wake of Kennedy's assassination led, in time, to another surprise: a reversal in the gravitational field of American political ideas.

Far from relegating war to the twilight of our moral and political imagination (where war would necessarily assume a logic of its own) just war theory seeks to domesticate war by relating it to politics.»

It will take a great deal of courage and not a little imagination to risk failure, powerlessness, and cultural and political irrelevance — to be, in Pope Francis's words, a less «worldly» Church — for the sake of the truth.

On a wave of popular youth appeal, Corbyn as suffering servant and capitalist reformer has captured the imagination of those seeking a new political future.

Cavanaugh, who teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has also written Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (T & T Clark) and coedited The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell).

The absence of a historical model that embodies fully my political and theological imagination makes it difficult to speak meaningfully and concretely about the socialist alternative.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

King's dream was a gift of imagination from beyond the realm of political realism.

To the extent that Theissen has shown how religious visions of peace are of necessity linked with military and political conditions, this failure of American historical memory may well ultimately destroy the power of the religious imagination and its symbols.

A church of friends, a world of compassion without domination or privilege, winners or loser — we dismiss that as impossible because our imaginations, conditioned by unexamined political and economic assumptions, can not grasp it as a practical possibility.

For the ordinary Catholic, grand artistic, literary, scientific or political achievements may be beyond their realm, that is, the graced imagination and its effects may not have the same degree of influence as with someone who has great natural gifts in sculpture or musical composition.

Such traditions of popular political participation in serious trouble because the cultural grounds on which they have stood are beginning to come apart, to ravel out, to lose coherent purchase in our imaginations.

In this moment of political angst, I think it is worth asking whether these two should be separated, and with Ober and Cartledge I agree that thinking with the past can sharpen our understanding and broaden our imagination.

In 595, John had assumed the auspicious title of Universal Bishop, which Gregory thought to be self - serving and regrettable.8 In order to demonstrate his own response Gregory publicly defined the role of the Roman bishop as the servant of the servants of God (servus servorum domini), a term that thereafter was used to describe the heart of papal authority and one which has been thereafter always associated with the Gregorian political imagination.

That imagination must be disciplined by a knowledge of political, social and economic theory.

Most of our existing political Catholics are NOT catholic by any stretch of the imagination.

The «mommy wars» that have cropped up repeatedly this campaign season are a figment of political pundits» imagination.

Political fiction often involves a judicious mix of known facts and historical characters with those of the novelist's imagination.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

This political imagination shows that historical patterns of predation or disempowering political engagement have not resulted in either acceptance of the status quo or total disengagement.

[4] This genocide of the people of Western Cameroon has never been acknowledged by French political leaders and stories of the independence movement have been transformed in the Cameroonian popular political imagination as «trouble making maquisards».

Criticisms of Corbyn's leadership style focused on his inept approach to internal party management and estrangement from his own parliamentary party; where Corbyn exceeded expectations was his ability to fashion a distinctive, eye - catching political agenda that captured the imagination of the electorate, and distanced the Labour party from its potentially «toxic» legacy (one of the historian Stuart Ball's key criteria for effective opposition party leadership).

Bob Neill: Hammersmith and Fulham is an exemplar of how councils with imagination and political courage can deal with the matter.

A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin — which, of course, is entirely fictitious and borne from the overactive imagination of a young and idealistic left - wing political figure.

It was voiced most succinctly by Dave Rowntree: Labour parliamentary candidate, Blur drummer, and a man whose modest - but - interesting politics (some of which are hinted at here) give you a flavour of where New Labour might have gone post-97, if not for a lamentable failure of political imagination.

The story is nothing but the figment of the rather fertile imagination of some unscrupulous political saboteurs who are threatened by the unprecedented levels of the evidenced - based developmental projects chalked by President John Mahama and the NDC Government; coupled with our unwavering commitment to spread the news of such a solid legacy to Ghanaians both home and abroad.

Mr Corbyn is expected to appear on television more often, while strategists are drawing up new policies aimed at capturing the imagination of ordinary voters disillusioned with the political status quo.

What was really striking was the political audacity of this leap of the imagination.

Published in 1924, the essay stands as a brilliant testimony to the power of science fiction to fuel the political imagination.

What's more, it takes some stretch of the imagination to excuse it as satire, considering the distinct lack of any real political statement underpinning the whole thing.

«While many millennials dance the nights away to The Chainsmokers and Kygo, the lack of a broad - based populist wail inflaming the imaginations of a new generation may stand in the counterpoint to the political activism that is indeed happening by day,» writes James Kernochan.

We showed our solidarity and our strength, and with this new contract we have solidified our political power and captured the imagination of the nation.

Maile brings the full force of her extraordinary intelligence and imagination to bear on magical, scientific and geo - political themes.

- Michael Beschloss, Chicago Tribune «Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of.»

The symmetry between the early political careers of the 16th and 44th U.S. presidents seems to have captured the imaginations of many.

War and political rivalry, whether in the shape of aristocratic feuds or the class struggle are powerful themes but they don't spark my imagination as a writer.

Political scientist Scott Sagan has the perfect line to address the sort of thinking that prevents us from using our imagination: «Things that have never happened before happen all the time.»

Earth Matters returns our focus to the power of the ground beneath our feet while also demonstrating the political, spiritual, and aesthetic claims it has on the imagination in Africa as well as here in Maine.»