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As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
The best-known response to the ideal-world thesis contends that proposition (2) is not logically necessary.
What is important, he contends, is jurisdictional control.
The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
Discussions are civilized affairs: verbal interchanges between contending parties reveal that a mistake has been made that needs to be corrected.
Within this political system, various world views contended with one another and periods marked by the domination of changing substructures followed one another.
He opts out of judging contending estimates ; he is, after all, a generalist.
Now the individual's new commitment to the true faith contended with the ancient loyalties of the subject to one's liege lord.
The author wishes to connect political economy and environmental change and contends that gender is the factor that links them.
They present evidence from neural network modeling, contending that cognitive neuroscience has no definitive answers.
Serious tensions arose as older and newer groups (the latter representing entrepreneurs and the professional middle classes) contended for political and economic power.
He thus contended that labour mobility was neither hindered nor monitored.
The natures of traditionally evolving ' scripts ' for grief, he contends, depend upon whether formality or informality, and expressiveness or reserve, are socially valued.
Theoretical advances and past research evidence can inform the selection of contending hypotheses and the prior probabilities assigned to them.
The paper contends that sites of ideological transmission are located outside the formal curriculum of the madrasa.
If ideology is not a contending factor in national politics, what is?
To summarise, the activity theory of ageing contends that involvement in activity positively contributes to a sense of personal wellbeing among older people.
The critical ideological dynamic concerns the security of the status quo and the inherent advantage or disadvantage this gives to the contending sides.
The model further contends that stressful events increase distress in an additive, linear fashion.
He contends that a particular pattern of stratification is associated with each regime (1990).
However, their political reorientations also reveal divisions within the communities, which reflect the vicissitudes of the struggle among contending parties at the local level.
Libertarians shared the objections of corporate and traditionalist conservatives, contending that federal social programmes entailed burdensome taxes and subverted individual rights and responsibilities.
The minority group status hypothesis contends that under certain conditions, the insecurities of minority group membership depress fertility below majority group levels.
She cogently contends that a therapeutic objective is at best a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for legitimacy.
She contended that this tendency emerges after the child's fourth year, coupled with cognitive advances that also show a new tendency toward precision.
Functions were identif ied in three overarching themes; building relationships, contending with c ircumstances, and expressing sensibility.
As this author contends, the debate now centers on those who want to get it right and those who want to get it right now.
In most cases, each contending family had its own regalia (a staff and a drum) ready for the happy event of their enskinment.
He contends that if texts are important, so too are the material contexts within which they are written.
The examples discussed in this article show how fifteenth-century performers, scribes and composers contended with notated rhythm.
From what soup of contending proposals, from what solution stream, does the eventual policy emerge?
The significance of past landscapes cannot be grasped, he contends, by creating abstract two-dimensional representations of space.
The new metaphysical challenge contends that many states and processes referred to by functionalist cognitive scientists are epiphenomenal.
More's troubador contends that even if beauty fades, ' ' the heart that has truly loved never forgets.
Rural elders and revivalists offered contending answers to the terrifying problem of gender trouble.
She contends that in some societies a trade in human lives and organs is accepted as the ultimate solution for people in economic adversity.
She contends that the strengthening of community-based midwifery is an essential component for high quality maternity care.
However, negative opinions are not quoted directly for the most part and therefore not dealt with as serious contending viewpoints.
In adopting such a stance, it is contended that knowledge is continuously shaped by the social practice of teams, communities and institutions.
The author contends that the study supports a sociocultural view of academic literacy development.
He contends that conditionality cannot be justified on paternalist concerns or through appeals to reciprocity.
What matters are contending beliefs about how to deal with the outside world, not officials' particular stance on national or industrial capture.
Others contended that a reassessment was in order.
First, it is contended that the account provided of universal human interests by nineteenth-century liberals and their successors went too far.
The faculty to be contended with was not reason but passion.
When this is the case, there is plenty of scope for acute tensions within parties as contending factions battle over policy.
Once again, readers are offered an extensive literature review, with contending theories grouped into discrete categories.
They also contended that the president's modification of the revenue formula exceeded his constitutional powers.
Furthermore, it is contended that poverty researchers are confused about poverty and income inequality.
In each country, color-blind ideals of individualism have contended with collective, race-conscious notions of political identity for dominance in the shaping of race policy.
State officials contended, however, that the wording of the law did not mandate the application of uniform standards statewide.
Thus, the counterproject contended that racial struggle, both peaceful and violent, was inherently criminal.
He contends that this is not an accidental similarity, but rather has a specificity that previous scholars have overlooked.
He contends that truth can be analysed as super-assertibility.
He contends this anomaly can best be explained by what he calls a cultural-linguistic approach to religion.
He contends that pension reforms are generally uncomfortable : economic globalization and demographic ageing exert considerable external pressures for adjustment through skyrocketing social costs.
His perspective favors defined contribution plans where he contends that workers are equally rewarded regardless of age.
Indeed, he contends 'luxury may be found in all ranks [of human society] and throughout the ages wherever human beings have been sociable'.
Competing policy ideas do not necessarily embody different cultural dispositions or contending policy paradigms.
The view of science as a "neural" body of knowledge contends that science is aperspectival and objective.
From the vantage point of gaze theory, it could be contended that such nudes are male empowering by virtue of their objectification.
She contends that a central focus of analysis is on the nature of scientific knowledge and the assumptions that underpin it.
We have noted that the concept is presently heavily individualistic in focus, contending that social, cultural, historical and political factors are largely absent.
Such separation, he contends, is not possible, because it contradicts the essential interests of any religion.
Overarching these webs, notions of homeplace contended with those of slumland and brotheldom.
Within their respective disciplines, linguists and psychologists necessarily have to choose from time to time between contending theoretical explanations for the phenomena they investigate.
With in their respective disciplines, linguists and psychologists necessarily have to choose from time to time between contending theoretical explanations for the phenomena they investigate.
They contended that their first loyalty was to science and its dissemination, not the promotion of a language, even their own national language.
Cummins contends that the much publicized research reviews and meta-analyses of bilingual education all assume that research can directly inform policy-making.
His vision of the good life, she contends, remains incomplete without a more persuasive analysis of how leisure fits into it.
Rather than offering accounts, some women contended that lack of discipline was the underlying factor that had resulted in their increased weights.
Two general modes of thinking about frontier peoples contended with each other over the centuries of the imperial era.
Accordingly, this book contends that the prevalence of plural currencies did not contradict the development of a market economy.
In doing so, she contends the importance of lifetime, experiences, and personal history of the individuals behind the works under consideration.
Rather, he contends, the ritual is a quest for social, environmental harmony between the person, other people, and the forest's flora and fauna.
I also entertain a likely objection contending that embodiment is merely a type of dynamic behavior and is therefore covered by the target article.
As we saw, contending coalitions preferred delayed-redistributive over investment-based solutions.
The author's key argument however contends that successful welfare states need a balance between economy and society, meaning in particular the institutions of civil society.
Indeed, it is often contended that these challenges belong to a realm of analysis importantly distinct from the normative.
By 1949, the two governments had gained considerable experience contending with each other.
He contends that these seem to be the only things which are really very good when imagined in isolation.
She contended that, although on paper two wards might appear very similar, there were considerable differences in the experience offered to students.
The media, rather, need to be understood as sites for struggle between contending influences.
The national secretariat contended with a constant lack of money and personnel, and the organisation only received a limited number of national offices.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
The defendant healthcare professionals contended that the families greatly exaggerated both the severity of the patients' pain and the professional unresponsiveness to it.
Bloemers contends that, to be sure, the processual approach is the most adequate one, but the contextual approach can offer us a different perception.
Law, he contends that certain legal rules are necessar y constituents of any legal system.
Situations of perceived emergency can induce contending political groups to agree upon unpopular, painful measures.
A metaphor theory, he contends, needs both a semantic component and a conceptual one.
If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
The theory contends that competition profoundly affects mortality rates.
Within the latter dimension, we argue that citizens can emphasize two types of criteria when they gauge the likely outcomes of contending political options.
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