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The following articles on Shaw are noteworthy for one reason or another: "Shaw Contra Mundum" by C.
Fourthly, there is always a possibility that what passes as a legitimate use of force may be so wasteful as to be really a use of violence; and per contra that measures condemned as recourse to mere violence may, under the given circumstances, represent an intelligent utilization of energy.
And even if we imagine the sympathies opposed to our convictions extended until they include those of the whole human race, against whom we imagine ourselves to stand as Athanasius contra mundum; still, so long as our conviction of duty is firm, the emotion which we call moral stands out in imagination quite distinct from the complex sympathy opposed to it, however much we extend, complicate and intensify the latter.
Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: -I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in upper Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore.
54 from Histoire de Langued'oc, prepared by a Languedoc separatist earthworks collective,, Les Cathares-Fourieristes DSLReclam 55 John Wasmod of Homburg's Tractatus contra hereticos, beckardos, lulhardos, et swestriones, 1396, quoted in Robert S.
" Et contra illa instabat femineum nec mutans femina morem et cum lacrimis pedibus eius obvoluta, quod petebat, tandem obtinuit.
] 58 John Wasmod of Homburg's Tractatus contra hereticos, beckardos, lulhardos, et swestriones, 1396, quoted in Robert S.
When the San Jose Mercury News recently published its findings linking the CIA and Contra drug-runners, the rumors flared anew.
The media have developed an insatiable passion for "witch hunts," such as the one that badly distorted Iran Contra stories during the Reagan years.
" In 1987, Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times encountered a contra patrol in northern Nicaragua, chatted with the men amicably for an hour or so, and then got ready to leave.
" asked the contra commander.
" It will be a credible work about a Jewish Kid who gets thrown in jail in Nicaragua, is freed by a Contra group and eventually sides with them for the right reasons.
Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra- (from the Latin contra meaning against), or possibly a contradictonym.
He was also constrained by a bill he signed into law that made it illegal to ship military aid to anticommunist Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, whom he strongly supported.
The new program, headquartered in Oakland, was the result of a merger between San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance (SFNLAF), Community Legal Services in San Jose, and Legal Foundation of Contra Costa.
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