Sentences with phrase «political use of the books»

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Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

In the twentieth century, discussion of «political theology» was revived by Carl Schmitt who used the term as the title of a book in 1922.2 In the chapter which also bears this title Schmitt argues for the correspondence in each epoch of the form of social authority and the theological world view.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.

For Soviet leaders and high officials President Reagan's decision to use bellicose language was and is a political fact that amounts to a policy pronouncement (New York Review of Books [February 16, 1984]-RRB-.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

Polly Block says in «Polly's Birth Book, Obstetrics for the Home»: «The law should not be used as a political device to deny a couple a safe alternative in the setting of their choice... as long as they pursue their way of life without criminal intent or action....

My book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over tPolitical Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over tpolitical campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

His book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over tPolitical Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over tpolitical campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

Also, please note that this excerpt only covers the mechanics of Twitter advertising; the strategies behind why and when to use Twitter ads to achieve particular political and advocacy goals are discussed elsewhere in the book.

The book, which makes extensive use of a near - verbatim record of the talks kept by long - serving Lib Dem aide Alison Suttie, marks Mr Laws's return to the political limelight following his shock resignation from the Cabinet just weeks into the Coalition.

The use of parliamentary staffing allowances for any form of party political or non parliamentary work is most explicitly forbidden in the principles set out in the Green Book.

Both of which are of course in clear breach of the most explicit prohibitions in the Commons rule book which repeatedly and categorically states that the Communications Allowance can not be used for any form of party political campaigning.

«But this kind of thing, when you're promoting your own book and using your political list to send it out to basically political people, it's kind of a stretch,» he said, adding it's even more so being so close to the election.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Dr Cable said his former Cabinet colleague had used words reminiscent of Hitler's autobiographical book of 1925, in which he set out his political beliefs.

In his newest book, Yale historian Steve Pincus challenges those who argue that the Declaration of Independence should be used for political guidance today, saying it's in favor of limited government.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

The goal of this book is to set the record straight and to use my experience in what amounts to a political and media whacking as the starting point for a much - needed discussion about the current, sad state of political discourse in this country.

«This book was designed to show what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality of educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options,» write Frankenberg and Debray.

The Political Dynamics of American Education, the book he co-authored with Frederick Wirth, is widely used in the politics of education.

I know it's their book to write, but there is a difference between telling a good story and using the pretense of a story to convince people to your political opinion.

Author Name: Roy Eidelson Book Title: Political Mind Games: How the 1 % Manipulate Our Understanding of What's Happening, What's Right, and What's Possible Synopsis In Political Mind Games, psychologist Roy Eidelson explains how we can recognize — and counter — the manipulative appeals that the 1 % use to advance their self - serving agenda.

Remember that everything you post on social media can be used for or against you: your political opinion, your favourite books and the frequency of baby animal videos are all points based on which your potential readers are going to judge you.

This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking.

The students created collages employing a «remixing» process using appropriated images that the artist provided, including 18th - century newspaper etchings, 1920s and «30s political cartoons, children's book illustrations and architectural drawings of New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) buildings in the Bronx.

During the Chilean dictatorship that lasted from 1973 to 1990, Zurita published a trilogy of books — Purgatory, Anteparadise, and The New Life — and co-formed the art collective CADA (Colectivo de Acción de Arte) that used performance as an act of political resistance.

Inspired by cartoons and comic books, her work uses black humor and the aesthetic of popular imagery to examine pressing social and political concerns.

Born in Philadelphia in 1943, R. Crumb has used the popular medium of the comic book to address the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, irony, racial and gender stereotypes, sexual fantasies, and fetishes.

Or Mroué's related installation at the Hauptbahnhof, which consist of sounds, projected pictures and flip books trying to pick apart the political, ethical and philosophical implications of an artist using an image of a sniper shooting an image - maker who is definitely anonymous and, in the time of our looking, possibly dead.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

This means we're putting a man who has written an entire book calling climate change a hoax, who has used scripture to refute climate science, who truly seems to believe that environmental groups are a «political machine» dedicated to «misleading the American public regarding their purely politically partisan agenda under the guise of environmental protection» and who has insisted, with a straight face, that CO2 is not a «real pollutant,» in charge of solving climate change.

Spencer, the problem with professing to wish to talk only of «the science» is that your «the science» has spent the last few decades thoroughly and incontrovertibly conflating politics with truth, or knowledge, and using every dirty political trick in the book to queer access to knowledge and reason in pursuit of a political goal.

The book uses a wealth of quotes to show that sustainabilism is not a niche political movement, but a mainstream ideology.

Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the book that popularized the phrase «Ethical Oil,» which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

«With a bitter political battle on the horizon, there is a risk that more secret deals in Congo will be struck and that part of the profits from those deals could be used for off - the - books financing to influence or delay the elections,» said Nat Dyer, Congo team leader at Global Witness.

Although they conducted a careful review of the science behind the safety of DDT use, the then Administrator ignored this evidence and succumbed to the political and emotional arguments advanced by Rachel Carson in her book Silent Spring.

It's a book hasn't been published yet, it'll come out next month, just talking really in quite technical terms about how communication is changing, what how technology is impacting that, what data is doing to advertising and political campaigns and then using a lot of case studies with a lot of real examples of artwork and targeting and psychographics and so forth to illustrate them.

There's a long history of personality tests being used for political purposes, says Merve Emre, a McGill University literature professor and author of The Personality Brokers, a forthcoming book on the history of personality testing.

The results of my research were used to support overall arguments made in a book about negative political ads.