Sentences with phrase «whose legitimacy»

As to the Spanish and Portuguese claims, whose legitimacy England continued to deny, Selden said that, while on general principles they could be valid, in actual practice neither of the two countries ever acquired valid title or command to the areas they claimed».

That is to say the politics of fear demands not only that we accept austerity, but that we accept fewer political and civil freedoms, and that we put up with a government whose legitimacy is solely premised on the claim that it — and only it — can see us through some crisis.

The US Declaration of Independence provided a constitutional and limited government, whose fundamental goal was to protect property rights and whose legitimacy came from empowerment by the people.

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The biggest number may actually go to Xunlei, whose cloud servers have some 6 million subscribers accessing content of questionable legitimacy, especially pirated foreign content and Japanese pornography.

What we are really dealing with here is the legitimacy of any Christian vocation whose end seems, and perhaps is, unambiguously terrestrial.

Then, of course, there is a diatribe against Mel Gibson, who is falsely depicted as an eccentric who denies, inter alia, the legitimacy of the pope and whose film The Passion of the Christ «will try to revive the traditional charge of deicide against the Jews.»

Religious groups can facilitate or undermine the legitimacy of alliances, and any such alliances may spell victory, defeat, or at least minor alterations in the opportunities of population segments, whose identities are defined by religious commitments.

There is little argument to support the legitimacy of that practice, other than a mention of some cases whose outcome Ball approves on moral grounds.

Far from being a pagan import whose introduction into the theology of revelation is bound to trump God and limit his freedom, natural law belongs in Jewish (and, pari passu, in Christian) theology precisely because Scripture itself affirms its legitimacy.

To take control of them is, we must admit, part of the Human Genome Initiative — indeed, still more, part of the modern project whose «legitimacy» and «curiosity» have been defended by Hans Blumenberg in his provocative (if Teutonic) book The Legitimacy of the Mlegitimacy» and «curiosity» have been defended by Hans Blumenberg in his provocative (if Teutonic) book The Legitimacy of the MLegitimacy of the Modern Age.

Stephanie Williams Stephanie Williams is a tinkerer and doodler whose work navigates through the legitimacy of taste.

He addresses themes such as love and loss, legitimacy and difference, inviting viewers to participate in establishing meaning in his works, and to consider whose bodies matter.

Further information for Editors: SEAMUS NOLAN Seamus Nolan is a Dublin based artist whose work practice explores the legitimacy of its own appropriation, interrogating the fabric of our social and cultural make up, to reveal the narrative of identity formation within common materials and activities.

McKenzie is interested in practices whose questionable legitimacy as art has been central to their development and reception.

They support groups whose only purpose in life is to launder their identity and the identity of other donors off of money so you can't follow the money behind these front groups, and they have spent a lot of money infiltrating universities so that they can create a veneer of university legitimacy around some of the things that they do.

This case rests on the courts» lack of democratic legitimacy vis - à - vis the legislatures whose work they check.