It nicely allows everyone to indulge their favorite politico-cultural assumptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habitual Swearing Around Your Kids in New Jersey:] Reference
No doubt there's some irresistibly compelling politico-cultural explanation, but as yet nobody's vouchsafed it to me. From Wordnik.com. [Two Looks at the Luck of the Irish] Reference
In the course of the last quarter-century, the accomplishment of AIDS activists has been to change the politico-cultural mindscape. From Wordnik.com. [James Pinkerton: The Coming AIDS Reformation] Reference
ONe such politico-cultural club known as 'Yugantak'particularly caught the imagination of the youth for its open advocacy of revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
It is a gap that originated in precise politico-cultural circumstances which explain why a book of this sort has never until now seen the light of day. From Wordnik.com. [Spring 2009 books from Ignatius Press] Reference
But as Parag Khanna pointed out last April, there has been no “Muslim world” in the sense of a unitary politico-cultural entity since the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » The President Should Drop The Phrase ‘Muslim World’] Reference
At the same time, and in tension with this characterization of a political norm, a series of regional politico-cultural clusters began to solidify that provided alternative bases for state formations. From Wordnik.com. [2. South Asia, 72 B.C.E.-500 C.E] Reference
The absolutist state in early modern Europe created the centralizing structure or form into which, in many cases, nationalism entered later as the integrating and vivifying force, drawing all classes of the population into a commonwealth and politico-cultural partnership. From Wordnik.com. [NATIONALISM] Reference
Mr. Thomas quotes another semiotician with a fancier vocabulary who wrote that the memorial's designers were "seamless political reactionaries who sought to bend the chance to build a national memorial to the iconic Lincoln to their politico-cultural program of controlling the populace by sedative, pacifying mythology.". From Wordnik.com. [A Misunderstood Monument] Reference
What, after all, is the life of Francisco Castaneda — who is, after all, only a man, a son, the father of a teenaged girl — compared with the duty to zealously protect the prohibitionist domestic policies of the U.S. federal government, the awful importance of rigorously preserving the sanctity of imaginary lines in the southwestern desert, and the honor of the politico-cultural system of international apartheid, which those lines are drawn to implement?. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Homeland Security (#2)] Reference
"The West" has often been a rather ridiculous politico-cultural concept in the past. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
"Europe will be semi-Islamic in its politico-cultural character within a generation.". From Wordnik.com. [tabsir.net] Reference
In Britain we have still not come to terms with the sheer scale of that event, or with its wider politico-cultural consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Rigorously preserving the sanctity of imaginary lines in the southwestern desert, and the honor of the politico-cultural system of. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – December – 17] Reference
Intellectual architects and implementers of the new policy often highlighted trendy concepts such as soft power and politico-cultural heritage. From Wordnik.com. [Hurriyet Dailynews] Reference
Pinker is rightly admired for his quick wit and light touch, yet even he has lately succumbed to the grinding, pitiless tone of the politico-cultural debate. From Wordnik.com. [BrothersJudd Blog] Reference
I know InstaPunk is champing at the bit to do another of his devastating politico-cultural analyses, but I'm crowding him out of the picture on this otherwise doleful Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [InstaPunk] Reference
Yet there is one politico-cultural gesture it could make to renew itself, to reassert its national identity, to unite around a non-partisan symbol, and that is to restore its monarchy. From Wordnik.com. [ComingAnarchy.com] Reference
As Nile Green explains: "The genealogy of mental pathology in Victorian British through the ideas of social reform and the earlier Enlightenment ideology of reason lent colonial medicine a complex politico-cultural agenda based on an ingrained bourgeois association between work and morality on the one hand and notions of self-control based on the characteristically British formulation of 'common sense' on the other" (Green, 2009). From Wordnik.com. [Cannabis Culture Magazine] Reference
But while this is certainly the less naive alternative over the clamor to cleanse the selection procedure as if a pure method for plucking a pure candidate from the pure Tree of Philippine Art were possible, all the more it begs the question, "But won't dissolution of the National Artist Award only further mask the fact that art is imbued w/ politics, won't it mystify to a greater extent the existence of a politico-cultural elite whose tastes threaten to take over even in the absence of award-giving bodies?". From Wordnik.com. [FEATURE ARTICLE: ON THE PHILIPPINES' 2009 NATIONAL ARTIST AWARDS] Reference
The electoral fallout in Kenya echoes many of the institutional and politico-cultural problems that have bedeviled Africa’s democratic aspirations via elections. From Wordnik.com. [Kenya Unmasks Africa's Ugly Democracy] Reference
Finally, there’s the argument that other politico-cultural and economic factors matter far more than the size of the city in terms of predicting voting patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
As far as the local artistes are concerned, an unofficial Culturocracy dominates: it has monopolized state-largesse by systematically ostracizing artistes who refuse to kowtow to the not-so-covert politico-cultural agenda espoused by the BJP’s parent-body, the RSS. From Wordnik.com. [Chhattishgarh being Colonised by outsiders : Adivasi's being made into slaves in their own land] Reference
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