Sentences with phrase «political significance of»

The more complex response is that what the courts acquire when a bill of rights is entrenched is the power to set a constitutional agenda, a power that the legislature may never have had and so has not necessarily lost, a power the political significance of which depends on the form and content of what is entrenched and the value and character of the power it leaves in the hands of the legislature.

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Focusing on the themes of that exhibition such as the city as a riff, urban identities in transition, and colonial residues, Butcher raises the political significance of exhibition histories and with that the urgency of the archive (s) of today and its marginalia.

He has recently submitted a doctoral thesis in musicology at King's College, London, examining the political significance of sound in National Socialist Germany and experimental musical practices in its wake.

As faux - smart abstraction becomes increasingly popular among collectors and speculators, this timely show shrewdly exhorts young artists to understand the historical and political significance of their decisions in the studio, their materials, and their techniques.»

Mason's work touches on the cultural and political significance of aesthetics through a confluence of art historical references and popular culture.

The political significance of these developments is monumental.

In spite of an awkward setup, what had initially drawn me in was the early hints that Killing Ground might explore in some depth the political significance of white Australia's relationship to landscape and the changing mythology around survival.

Megan Rowland of the University of Cambridge, who has just completed a master's of philosophy degree on the political significance of Egypt's antiquities during the revolution, says that researchers who crossed Hawass became targets of intense criticism or had their permits revoked.

The political significance of this program for Republicans is massive.

«To explain this decision, you have used the excuse that «like a lot of young adults early in their professional lives, I failed to see the political significance of casting a ballot,»» the lawmakers wrote.

In line with the growing socio - economic and political significance of immigration, Europe has seen a wide range of policy measures aiming at either halting migrants from reaching Europe or deterring them from settling in their preferred countries of destination (Gibney 2004).

This is salutary reminder that the political significance of numbers of gains and losses depends very much on the numbers of seats up for election.

This account of industrial activities by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) with particular emphasis on the 1984 - 85 strike is indeed an accurate historical account of the political significance of this union in its struggle for an improvement in work relationships and job protection.

All that I have said about virtue, narrative or the political significance of the church has been an attempt to help us reclaim what is already there.

As always, exegetes obsessed by Jewish custom or eschatological expectation or charismatic gifts or psychological states may miss the highly political significance of what the Gospel writer is recording.

Taylor's failure or disinclination directly to address the political significance of the public / private distinction is closely connected with what we might call his «post-metaphysical» account of religion.

While Lincoln, like Madison, understand the political significance of reverence for our founders he also understood the hostility to tradition inherent in modernity's iconoclastic premises, not to mention the ambiguous status of tradition in a nation forged from revolution and an extraordinary measure of political philosophy.

This reflected the political significance of the possibility that an official recession would be confirmed by the numbers, right smack in the middle of an election campaign — all the more so -LSB-...]

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In the event of a go - ahead for QE, its announcement might be of greater political than economic significance, potentially marking the first step on the road to closer fiscal integration of the eurozone.

This conclusion can not be helped (and I will try to explain why), but at issue is the idea of «human exceptionalism» — i.e., whether human beings are exceptional, and if so in what ways, and with what environmental, moral, political, and cosmic significance.

We spoke of the global dimension of the social organisation of society, of the political not only the economic dimension of the problem of the problem of refugees throughout the world, the process of democratisation, the problem of private property, of taxation, of the problem of unemployment, of the state, of oil and its significance for the Gulf War, of the question of the right to live and of nuclear apartheid etc..

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

He purchases the cave at Machpelah as a burial place for Sarah, a deed simultaneously of familial and political significance; done not least for Isaac's and his descendants» sake (Abraham will also be buried here, as will Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah), the ground is consecrated as a memorial, helping to keep alive in memory the deeds of the founding mothers and fathers.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

Change of a substantial nature would require political will of far - reaching range and significance.

This redefinition of true citizenship is of particular significance at the present time when «citizenship» is almost universally regarded as a purely political virtue.

The privatization of crimes and violence and crimes as a domestic issue made these violations invisible, denying them their public face and any political significance or social reparation.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

The numerical strength of the communities came to acquire political significance.

The significance of an educated clergy, colleges and seminaries under religious auspices, and even places of worship that can double as meetinghouses for political purposes should not be overlooked.

But while top political leadership has come chiefly from members of one of the mainline Protestant groups, that membership has been of little political significance.

The question was taken up more seriously later when it lost its political significance and became a theological problem of academic interest.

Indeed that was the implication of the name Israel itself as it was now used; it had ceased to have either geographical or political significance after two Israelite monarchies had been quashed some centuries earlier.

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

However, it is the contention of this essay that Hartshorne's thought has a significance which can not be limited to the confirmed «Whiteheadians,» but which also has relevance for styles of thinking that are more explicitly historical and self - consciously theological, including even the anti-metaphysical attempts of the «secular» theologies to speak of God in a political fashion.

The campaign is aiming to highlight the political and spiritual significance of prayer and fasting as a powerful platform for change.

Spirit - blessed theology is not merely a means to an end of social change, though I can think of no action that has more enduring political significance.

So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.

Such a concern is echoed by those who point out that the inadequacies of several classical formulations of the significance of the person and work of Christ did not take into account the social setting and the political implications of the ministry of Jesus.

Can we assess the relative significance of a life by inquiring into its relative importance to a well - functioning society or political community?

On the political level the most important change in the Communist world is the split between Russia and China, but perhaps on the cultural level the fact of Poland has greater significance.

Schama shows how this theatrically composed picture replaced the reality of the General's death, and thus the significance of his life and of the battle he fought, in the minds of generation after generation of schoolboys to suit the political mythology of the British Empire.

This sin of Jeroboam is often recalled, and it is of political importance, for it means using God to enhance the state (we shall examine the significance of this later).

Throughout this discussion of symbol systems, the central significance of a political model consistent with the organic paradigm has been underscored.

The influence of paid - time religious television also takes on a wider significance when considered within the broader context of the structures of the mass media in their political and economic dimensions.

That this situation is of political, social, and cultural significance is evident enough.

The Lockean personal insight into the equal freedom of us all from political domination, as Chesterton explains, can only be properly accounted for the Christian thought that there's a center of significance to the universe that gives each of us unique and irreplaceable significance.

He is married with a large family and is also an iconographer and commentator on the deeper spiritual significance of world affairs and political developments.

The significance of this is not so much political as it is to serve as a caution against glib interpretations of polls.