How To Use Absolutist In A Sentence
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Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
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In fact, it was practised with great effect by Barack Obama during his presidential campaign - helping convince even conservative 'absolutist' voters to embrace a very 'systemic' concept of Change.
Marc Stoiber: Innovate With Empathy
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DB: Well, right now we are seeing what we call our third level system: egocentric, predatory, express self impulsively, “to hell with others”—moving into the fourth level system: that absolutistic, one right way, ideology, -ism.
IShift - Don Beck on the Essential Shifts (2006 Transcript)
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The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
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Democracy is an old governance just 2 centuries in resurgence from absolutist monarchy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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To the absolutist mindset, breeching a principle is the same as abandoning it, and therefore any concession to differing views amounts to total surrender.
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Actually, Roger, there are other, less barbaric and absolutistic options…
Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter: UN Speech Represents ‘The Collapse of the President’s Iran Policy’
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In this and other cases, it was an absolutist sense of superiority that allowed such heinous acts.
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The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
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Yet the wording of the amendment did not change when its scope changed; it is still written in absolutist terms.
The Volokh Conspiracy » First Amendment Exceptions and History
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I also think he has his share of issues (far less than Bush’s issues mind you), as I, unlike you, do not see the world in absolutist’s shades of black and white, but in a million different colors … (this means I have no heros, idols or unrealistic expectations from anyone).
Think Progress » Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’
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In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757.
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Like all absolutist dogmas, this combination of axiom and corollaries appeals in its simplicity and directness.
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They have provoked denunciation from theocratic absolutists for whom compromise is betrayal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ideological dispute between absolutists proclaiming a right of intervention to suppress revolutions and liberals proclaiming a doctrine of non-intervention made little difference in practice.
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Reform everywhere was initiated from above; Enlightenment sovereigns perpetuated the paternalism of the previous century's absolutist princes.
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Amber (ethnocentric, mythic): The Amber Altitude began about 5,000 years ago, and indicates a worldview that is traditionalist and mythic in nature—and mythic worldviews are almost always held as absolute (this stage of development is often called absolutistic).
INTEGRAL POLITIC
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The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
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Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
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At the very least, Assange seems an absolutist about transparency, though not every fact or cable or piece of low-minded conversation has the same value to society.
Phil Bronstein: What's More Transparent, TSA's Scanners or WikiLeaks?
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Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic.
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It is perhaps not surprising that absolutistic assumptions about life and its meaning were not part of Barack Obama's own upbringing.
Dr. Robert Aziz: Mind the Leadership Gap: Why it should have been called the White House Office of Goodwill Neighborhood Partnerships
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For all of the Founding Fathers 'wisdom, for the blessings of the Decelaration of Indpenedence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they were at the end of the day lawless revolutionaries fighting against the God-ordained government of their rightful King (this should not be taken as support for the idea of absolutist monarchy or the divine right of kings since a non-monarchical government would have the same' divine 'foundation, as does our Republic today; the State legislatures were also not empowered to act on behalf of their citizens in any way that outweighed the rights of the centralized monarchy at that time).
Orrologion
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But the Democrats cannot agree to the Republicans' absolutist demands, in part because the arithmetic of deficit reduction does not work without tax increases and cuts in defence spending, in part because they passionately believe that with taxes the lowest for 50 years, the US's rich should share in the pain and in part because in any human exchange there is an element of horse-trading.
What hope is there for us if America is driven to the brink of meltdown? | Will Hutton
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This absolutist belief is replaced by an appreciation that rules can vary.
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He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina.
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The shareware Absolutist Solitaire Studio has a range of solitaire games and a Solitaire Script language which allows you to design your own games and add them to the program.
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They must be absolutist, that is, about instituting a non-absolutist state.
Chris Meserole: The Strange Justice of Alberto Gonzales
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More to the point, we are far more likely to find devout creationists centered at absolutistic DQ-Blue and devout evolutionists centered at multiplistic ER-Orange.
Involution / Evolution
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I tend to view God the Father as the conservative, absolutist, past and order oriented analogy, while the Holy Ghost is the future hope/mystery side of the equation, with Jesus being the complex intersection of order and chaos that is the present.
Crackergate
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But at least there was a coherent stance behind it, viz. an absolutist rejection of force, whatever the consequences.
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In the absence of any positive regulation, the "freedom" that the right-wing absolutists envision is the freedom of the rich and powerful to control, crush, and humiliate the less-rich and less-powerful.
Jesse Larner: The Tea Party Idea of Freedom Is Anything But
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Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings.
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While some philosophers, such as Telesio, Campanella, and Bruno, held space to be always filled with matter (i.e., a plenum) yet somehow independent of matter, others, like Patrizi and Gassendi, endorsed a more absolutist notion that allowed spaces totally devoid of matter
Descartes' Physics
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In your usual absolutistic view of things, you cannot understand that no system is perfect, or that it is simply a stage until it becomes corrupted and a society seeks something – usually drastic – to counter balance that corruption.
Think Progress » Pentagon official resigns over detainee remarks.
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Pei argues that Chinese communism is unable to overcome its absolutist, conspiratorial origins, its ‘original sin’.
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Their twisted absolutistic thinking is all about punishing perceived rule breakers, while they break the largest rules of all and hide it or lie about it.
GOP congressman chides the 'hard right'
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The absolute similarity of the absolutistic powers.
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The ideological dispute between absolutists proclaiming a right of intervention to suppress revolutions and liberals proclaiming a doctrine of non-intervention made little difference in practice.
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I can sympathize with his absolutist view regarding capital punishment, as did many in the Cuban leadership.
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In so doing, she claims, they fall into ‘the logic of terrorists, demagogues, and other absolutists who perceive no moral dilemmas: For them, the right path is always clear.’
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The sceptics of antiquity lived under the rule of absolute emperors; those of the Renaissance under absolutist monarchs.
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She's an absolutist, which is a great strength," said her friend Michael Pollan, author of
Columbiatribune.com stories
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Benton: neither 'obscurantist' nor 'absolutist' are proper words
Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin
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This absolutist belief is replaced by an appreciation that rules can vary.
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After all, the idea of absolutist tolerance exists for purposes beyond mediating athletic rivalries among coworkers and arbitrating those heated debates as to whether chocolate or vanilla is the better flavor of ice cream.
Blogger News Network
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The philosophy of Objectivism also takes a morally absolutist stance, as it regards the laws of morality to be, like the laws of physics, inherent in the universe itself.
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Scepticism about literary language, however, was not only the province of those opposed in some absolutist sense to literary practices.
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So, we need to move away from this kind of dichotomous, absolutist language and towards something that just reflects where people are in this country.
Grist - the Latest from Grist
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Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context.
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The prohibitionist dreams of some anti-gun types only up the absolutist ante from the NRA wackos.
Matthew Yglesias » Gun Lovin’ Liberals
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We are dealing with an absolutist culture that demands total capitulation or nothing.
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Privately in 2006, I was told by a prominent, scholarly absolutist at that end that the Barragan-Martini view 'BMV' for short, and thus my own, is flatly incompatible with the entire logical structure of the Church's teaching about sex and marriage.
Condomania
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The sorry repercussions of embracing superhumanism-a new absolutistic faith - are everywhere to be seen.
He who says speciesism says fascism-
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The terrorist's mind may be called absolutist and unappeasable.
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In fact, the world would probably have been divided between endlessly warring absolutist and tributary states without even the possibility of escape that capitalism provides.
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Not long ago, a close comrade of mine was dining with a person who I can't identify beyond telling you that his father is a long-term absolutist ruler of an Arab Muslim state.
Slate Magazine
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These weaker relationist strategies (or even non-relational, absolutist interpretations) of Descartes 'physics come at a high price, however, since the reciprocity of transfer thesis must be abandoned.
Descartes' Physics
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The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
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He is a First Amendment absolutist, which is to say that he follows the Constitution.
Village Voice Drops Nat Hentoff, Bill of Rights Journalist
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Antiliberal, antiscientific, a foreign absolutist authority dictating to its half-educated adherents, Rome was given to such grotesqueries as the 1864 Syllabus of Errors and the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility.
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This is the kind of absolutist logic that makes the discussion about abortion over before it starts.
Some Choices
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So there has never been, in the common law, an absolutist, legal concept of human mastery over land, no notion of dominium or ownership.
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Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution.
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She is an absolutist, despising those opportunists who take time out of normal life for a little promiscuity.
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France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a repressive mercantilist economic policy regime.
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The philosophy of Objectivism also takes a morally absolutist stance, as it regards the laws of morality to be, like the laws of physics, inherent in the universe itself.
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Charles XI and his absolutist advisers knew the commoner Estates would recommend a full resumption of crown lands as the basis for budgetary reform.
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They were territorial states governed by absolutist monarchs engaged in a struggle for security and survival.
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This absolutist belief is replaced by an appreciation that rules can vary.
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While he and a substantial minority opposed the use of force in America, the majority rallied to the government and this increased when the absolutist Bourbon powers intervened.
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