How To Use Anathema In A Sentence
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Ah! that was Sit-cum-to-ha, shrilly anathematizing the dogs as she cuffed and beat them into the harnesses.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality?
Narrative Strategies
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The pictorialist landscapes expressed the value of formal qualities that were anathema to establishment photographers.
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Oddly, it's insanely comfortable, and this kind of peripatetic lifestyle (while anathema to my wife) totally fits my A.D.D. quest for constant adventure.
Lucy van pelt holds the football
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Ironically, at the very end of this millennium, demotions, warnings, and anathemas have again come into vogue in several regions of our nation.
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The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists.
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Although anathemas followed against any who disagreed with the faith so formulated, there was no prohibition against altering the creed at a future council.
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In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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This position was anathema to traditional republicans, since it postulated that reform of the State was possible.
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A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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This sort of thing has every danger of deteriorating into a wider cultural rift between outsiders and others, which is quite anathema to a place like Bangalore that thrives on its cosmopolitan character.
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The EU influence is widely perceived to be anathema to that, and as being in hock to big business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even lifestyle choices like driving a small car, carpooling and living in the vicinity of where we work are largely anathema, which is why I'm not the least bit shocked by the Lexus LS 600h L.
Pale Green -- Lexus's $100,000 Hybrid
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That idea was anathema to many art historians, who believe that creativity is fragile and unquantifiable, that using the marketplace to evaluate art would sully the field…
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There are many others who are directly or indirectly associated with the process of finding a solution to this problem that serves as an anathema to this unique city.
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This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism.
Times, Sunday Times
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That idea [that the Federal Government should embrace ‘traditional values’] is anathema to those who take the Constitution seriously.
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Astronomy was, under these circumstances, inseparable from astrolatry, and anathemas of the prophets were not carelessly uttered.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Given such a declaration, O'Brien might be surprised to find herself quoted in another, more recent interview saying: ‘News stories are anathema to fiction’.
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Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
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he is an anathema to me
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Such interest is anathema to Sun Wen, a quietly spoken intellectual who enjoys writing poetry in seclusion.
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When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
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Two years before she was anathematized in 1992 for desecrating a papal portrait on live television, the singer Sinead O'Connor recorded a requiem that haunts from the opening line: "I am stretched on your grave/And would lie there forever.
Portfolio of Eloquence
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I always thought this burg was Mecca for complainers, and anathema for lemmings and sheep who roll over for any scheming muckamuck who comes along.
The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument
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‘The moral being — I believe that’s the right expression — of this exemplary person, derived its highest gratification from anathematizing his nearest relations and turning them out of doors.
Our Mutual Friend
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The EU influence is widely perceived to be anathema to that, and as being in hock to big business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyway, the idea of confiding in Mom was anathema to me – because I knew that she’d somehow use this information against me.
State of the Union
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Unfortunately for its maker and devotees, the arpeggione was anathema before it was even built.
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And the entire concept is anathema to Garbo's Hollywood heirs, most of whom break out in a rash and require vodka injections if they remain unphotographed for longer than 17 minutes.
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Covering women in the name of religious piety is anathema to the heart of France's libidinous boisterousness, which is rooted in the rejection of publicly religious declarations regardless of religion.
Taylor Marsh: Burqa Battle: Rooting for Sarkozy to Win
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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Hare coursing is a complete anathema in a civilised society.
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In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"!
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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But that wild idea was quickly shown to reduce commercial and industrial property taxes in Toronto and increase them everywhere else in the province, a result that was anathema to the government.
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Compromise is anathema to the virulently anti-tax Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.
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The idea of embarking upon yet more revolutionary upheaval seemed anathema.
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Among the characteristic peculiarities of the Greek religion may be mentioned the votive offerings (anathemata), which
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Indeed, many religious traditions have strongly anathematized medical research of any kind; it wasn't so long ago that doctors and students risked their freedom and even their lives if they dissected human cadavers.
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The only time that ritual bodily cutting, otherwise anathematized, is not only allowed but enjoined in Judaism is ritual circumcision (berit milah), performed as a sign of covenant with God (significantly, on the male organ).
Ritual in the United States.
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With every second word unprintable, McCrimmon anathematized the world in general and Alexandria in particular for five full minutes without repeating himself once.
The Lonely Sea
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The libertarian minimalists will likely find my outlook to be anathema to their own.
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Had he paid no attention at all to the endless rituals of the serious writers and their serious critics -- the formal expulsion ceremonies, the repeated anathemata, the stakes driven over and over through the heart, the vitriolic sneers, the endless, solemn dances on the grave?
Writing
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For most American slaves, forced relocation south was anathema and often the first impetus for their flight to Canada.
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In the tenth century," according to Dufour (_Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. VI., p. 11), "shoes _a la poulaine_, with a claw or beak, pursued for more than four centuries by the anathemas of popes and the invectives of preachers, were always regarded by mediæval casuists as the most abominable emblems of immodesty.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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The proposition that men and women have evolved different minds is anathema to every social scientist and politically correct individual.
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Her candidacy is seen as a sign of the growing acceptability of nationalist sentiments that would have been anathema a decade ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being such a private man I think this was anathema to him, to be exposed, you know, publicly in this way.
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The designer who created the game, Yuji Naka - president and CEO of Sonic Team - is busy these days doing what would have been anathema a year ago: making a Sonic variant for a former arch-enemy, Nintendo.
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The latter is rightly anathema since when one recites the Rosary one approaches God through our intercessor Mary, and not Mary in isolation, hence her role as Theotokos, or the ‘God Bearer’ is central.
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The process of formation and literacy that is taking place within the space and time of the flows, is often located within the logic of corporate organization even though they are literally an anathema to it.
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In the legend, the burden of hierarchical corruption is carried by the anathema hurled by the wives immolating themselves, and it culminates in a fatal robe of honour.
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Like so much else in Videssian life, anathematizing and excommunication had a ceremony all their own.
Bridge of the Separator
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Such a view may seem anathema in rugby union.
Times, Sunday Times
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The social utopia you crave is an anathema to a majority.
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It is an anathema to me to suggest that someone in their 60s is past their sell-by date.
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Established under the Helms-Burton Act, a 1996 law meant to strengthen the embargo against Cuba, it broadly allots $20 million annually for "pro-democracy" efforts on the island and has long been seen as anathema by the Cuban government.
No Détente in U.S.-Cuban Relations
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Many Catholic clergy, meanwhile, anathematized any celebration of what had brought the first attack in history on religious practice, using language that had scarcely changed in the course of two centuries.
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The church reacted to them ‘with interdict, excommunication, and anathema.’
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Monsignor Kuriakose B. claimed that the Inter Caetera bull had been "abrogated" by two acts that defied the pope's anathema: First, "the unsanctioned and immediate expansion of the territory of Brazil to the west well beyond the treaty of Tordesilla;" second, "the colonization of North America and the Caribbean by the King of France.
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Such ambiguity is anathema to autocratic regimes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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You mentioned the word that terrifies Ed Miliband, scares the New Labour horses, and remains anathema to the party hierarchy.
The Guardian World News
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Thus we feud in our families, anathematize fellow Christians and demonize the stranger.
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For the first time a Council spoke about the role of the Church in the world and urged all Catholics to discuss, not anathematise developments around them; and urged them to engage with the world rather than to retire into a ghetto.
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Credit controls are anathema to the government.
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In - depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. It'stops at sensational formulas.
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So across the political spectrum, for anyone thinking in essentialist terms, the mores render the word anathema from both directions.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The idea of counter-cyclical policy was anathema to the Victorians.
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The young woman readjusted her somewhat draggled plumes with a feeble, faded coquetry; Mother Shipton eyed the possessor of "Five Spot" with malevolence, and Uncle Billy included the whole party in one sweeping anathema.
Short Stories for English Courses
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[_apocatastasis_] will take place of demons and impious men, let him be anathema.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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Change to them would be an anathema and hostile to their kind of political culture so why should they really want Vision 2020?
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Manifestly, it was going to be anathema to an ultramontane like him, who had seen over the previous five years the government install what he saw as a deplorable new godless and materialist proletarian state.
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Such a view may seem anathema in rugby union.
Times, Sunday Times
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So across the political spectrum, for anyone thinking in essentialist terms, the mores render the word anathema from both directions.
Archive 2009-01-01
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And, of course, non-liberal commentators have filled libraries anathematizing Roe for having launched a social revolution on the back of one of the flimsiest, most willful constitutional inventions in American history.
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This is anathema to Valentino," said Mr. Sassi of the designer, who retired in 2008 with a whoopla party in Rome.
Reinterpreting Valentino
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But thanks to the flatfooted regime of the 1930s, means testing remains anathema.
Times, Sunday Times
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And funniest of all, Bill anathematizes the double standards of his critics!
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Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, shot back that Qaradawi was trying to incite "fitna" - the word for internal civil strife among Muslims that is anathema to followers of Islam.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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At times, as the curses and the anathemas rained upon him, he held his hands out in front of him, like a school nerd begging the bullies not to hit him again.
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Male trade unionists, by contrast, considered piecework anathema, for it was associated in their minds with unskilled labour, exploitative working conditions, and with a loss of control and dignity.
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The idea is anathema to some Labour members here - a group of Labour Councllors walked out when Rahman gave his address and were reportedly aggressively barracked by a large crowd of Rahman supporters gathered outside as they exited the hall.
Labour well beaten in Tower Hamlets
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The anathemas were eventually cancelled on 7 December 1965, by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, as part of a larger effort to draw the two Churches together, after centuries of separation.
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Him the revolting spectacle of His children detesting, anathematizing, persecuting and massacring one another by way of argument?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He claims that these nationalists, such as the iconic Irish politician of the 20th century, Éamon de Valera, ignored the fact that Ireland had "little consciousness of itself as a nation before the nineteenth century" and simply dredged up Celtic mythology to create "a narrow and destructive nationalism" that anathematized all things Anglo.
Behind the Green Veil
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In any case, the mere word was anathema to her, she thought fiercely.
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The evidence for some kind of massive programmed rearrangement upon environmental induction in flax is unequivocal," he writes, "but inheritance of acquired changes has been an anathema to evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin's time.
2008 February - Telic Thoughts
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The imperial armed forces are bogged down in an unwinnable war amidst an ever more unpredictable milieu, giving up ground in Iraq while US allies Turkey and Pakistan are thrown into political crisis and Iran -- anathema to the independence-averse US establishment -- grows in influence at the heart of this strategic region, and talks with Chinese and Russian "multipolarity" advocates.
Stan Goff: PING & PONG: you are the ball
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Facing persecution in idolatrous Mecca, in AD 622 the Prophet Muhammad pronounced an anathema on the city's leaders and took his followers to Medina.
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Of course (he says self-servingly) the No Spin Zone rejects predictability entirely and lives to ask questions that require actual thought, a word anathema to most politicians in this age of spin.
Blood Sugar
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To them, I will only say that regardless of whether it is big or small, supporting evil is anathema to any man who seeks the good, the right and the true.
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Is he to be anathematised for rebelling against his father, Henry II, in alliance with Philip Augustus, destined to prove his bitterest and most unscrupulous opponent?
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The idea that one would voluntarily inject poison into one's body was anathema to me.
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Babylonians, or the votive offerings (anathemata) of the Greeks.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Secondly, Whether a man be bound to prefer the glory of God before his own eternal happiness, as Moses and St. Paul seem to have done; the one in being content to have his name blotted out of the book of life, the other to be anathema from Christ, for the salvation of Israel?
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.
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These are marketing decisions and I would not presume to know which concepts sell and which are an anathema.
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Sent to bishops throughout the world, the syllabus warned loyal Catholics everywhere of the pernicious doctrines which the pope had identified and anathematized.
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His movement hoped to be accepted as the near contemporary Franciscans were but was anathematised and fiercely persecuted.
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Moral propriety was an essential of his creed - dancing and cinema-going were anathema.
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I'm just excited I used the word anathema in a sentence!
Why Suzy Needs Therapy
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving, and dedicated to an entity, which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin Defends Her Role As A Tea Party Profiteer, Announces Her Involvement In Another Scam
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The EU influence is widely perceived to be anathema to that, and as being in hock to big business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Episcopi, anathematis fulmine terribiles, alios in suam potestatem redegerunt, alios furibunda sæuitia id temporis persecuti sunt.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Kallimachos, which were certainly in the Erechtheion, [10] and continues: κειται δε εν τω ναω της πολιάδος Έρμης ξύλου, κτέ., giving a list of anathemata, followed by the story of the miraculous growth of the sacred olive after its destruction by the Persians, and passing to the description of the Pandroseion with the words, τω ναω δε της 'Αθηνάς Πανδρόσου ναός συνεχής εστι.
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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Sent to bishops throughout the world, the syllabus warned loyal Catholics everywhere of the pernicious doctrines which the pope had identified and anathematized.
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He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
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Here, given the two parties' equal acceptance of temporary and material immediacy, this form of postmodern heresy charge might be an improvement: it just anathematizes a competing sameness.
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Although I consider myself somewhat of an Augustinian Catholic which got me anathematized by Aster in an earlier thread - ...
Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – January – 05
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The word anathema frequently occurs in St. Paul's writings, and is generally translated accused.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The very idea is anathema to Fiennes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only was it complete cultural anathema for them to take political action but they risked their lives in doing so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seeing themselves as free individuals, the concepts of party discipline or rigour are bound to be anathema.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn.
A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians
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They choose to hide their faces, or more often to brazen out the inevitable flak to show lesser mortals that they are among the 'untouchables' ... and yet they are the antipathy of democratic governance and an anathema to what Chavez in his heart of hearts truly has ambitioned for his Venezuelan people.
Mass media's amateur dramatics that scream "Vampire bats" in the latest re-enactment of "Jaws" hysteria
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They wouldn't use terms like 'excommunicate' and 'anathema', of course.
Proudly apostate, that's me
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Castro: So you can see, I have never seen in my country's press, television, or radio, the word Fidelism, because in my country there really has been no personality cult and I have felt all my life a real anathema to what one could call a personality cult.
CASTRO URUGUYAN TV INTERVIEW ON AREA CONCERNS
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She had the reputation of a red-ragging leftist, the protagonist of everything that was anathema to the old school.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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I stood trembling under the threatening sword of this barbarian; but my master, without loss of time, threw upon me a kind of chapelet [21] of incredible length; and then took up a little book, which hung by his girdle; at the same instant, the women, rushing towards me, drew me from under the hand of Nouegem, and put me under those of the enraged priest, as they all dreaded, he was to pronounce an anathema on his opponent.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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That's when anathemas begin to fly and dialogue becomes impossible.
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Fleetword heeded not this, but rejoicing sincerely in any event that gave him opportunity of speech, proceeded to anathematize the whole assembly as confidently as if he had been the pope's legate.
The Buccaneer A Tale
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On most of the cases that count, she has proved to be anathema to their narrow-minded view of the world and Constitution.
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And if she cannot destroy him this time, and he gets the nomination, she will have so anathematized him with a segment of voters that McCain will beat him, and she gets to say "told you so" and run again in 2012.
In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates
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Although I consider myself somewhat of an Augustinian Catholic which got me anathematized by Aster in an earlier thread - quoting Augustine is SO not the way to impress me.
In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste
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There's a good reason, though, why oil executives seem eager to be quoted anathematizing BP.
Blowouts Will Not Always Be Prevented
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The resultant atmosphere of zealous, self-righteous piety smacks of the same sort of religious-based fundamentalism that is derided and anathematized when proclaimed by radical Islamists, to offer but one example.
American Exceptionalism
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The materials are simple but luxurious: instead of ornamentation, anathema to the Modernists, there is great richness.
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She had the reputation of a red-ragging leftist, the protagonist of everything that was anathema to the old school.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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Each community can assert its own convictions forcefully, but neither community should resort to anathemas or silences, to exclusion or withdrawal.
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Curse Alviarin and that triply cursed proclamation calling anathema on anyone who approached him save through the Tower.
Knife of Dreams
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Racial prejudice is anathema to me.
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Not realizing that calm and logic are anathema to the Hysterical Female, the Wronged Male, by his very hangdog air, serves only to lure the Hysterical Female into a near frenzy in her thwarted attempts for a screaming argument.
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I mean their whole schtick is that Conservatives are not electable and therefore we have to outpander the Democrats by moving to the left and anathematizing conservatives.
Is the NRSC Maneuvering to Push Tom Ridge? - Erick’s blog - RedState
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Matters came to a head in 1054 when the two Churches, through their official representatives, excommunicated and anathematized (formally denounced) each other.
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The Administration does something completely outrageous, and outrage is made into the focus, as being counter-productive and indicative of over-emotionality, which is, of course, anathema.
Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
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Contraception and abortion were, of course, anathema to Mother Teresa.
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It seems anathema to most gardeners to go against their natural instincts to prune, train, stake, deadhead, divide and generally fuss on the plants in their gardens.
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The day after those decisions were handed down, I. Lewis Libby was sentenced by Judge Reggie B. Walton to serve a prison sentence of 30 months for obstructing justice and lying to a grand jury about his role in "outing" a CIA agent anathematized by the vice president.
David Bromwich: The Day the Laws Came Back
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Tonality and atonality (as syntaxes) may be anathema to one another, but the relationship between consonance and dissonance in tonal music is a defining characteristic of tonality.
Spark plugs and transmissions
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They are anathema and, worse, hideously ugly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smell of the crowd and the roar of the greasepaint is anathema to wanting to sit in a room alone and write.
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As an educated, professional Jewish woman and a left-wing political activist, Frankenthal fit every anathematized category in Nazi-dominated Europe.
K��te Frankenthal.
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Passivity places persons in an intellectual coma and is anathema to passion for learning and life.
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The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn.
A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians
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The ugly grinding sound was anathema to him.
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Anything that smacked of luxury or superfluity was anathema to him.
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I realize this interpretation is anathema to the Darwnian monophyletic mindset but that does not mean that it is wrong.
Behe, Common Descent, & UD
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Their advice is couched in uncertainties that are anathema to adversarial politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rome would continue to anathematize the French Revolution as the origin of modern impiety and anti-clericalism, a change happily accepted by all those who gloried in these attitudes.
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They held loud and long theological discussions, good-humouredly anathematizing Richard as an infidel, and showed their medals and crosses.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving and dedicated to an entity which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
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The key to Afghanistan's future thus lies not in forging an unholy alliance after breaking the back of the Taliban, but rather in first smashing asunder devastating assumptions beginning with the misconception that Afghans would ever choose to live under a regime of corrupt Westernized bureaucrats and religiously psychotic warlords who espouse belief systems anathema to thousands of years of Afghan tribal sensibilities.
Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
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It's no wonder then, that Paul calls down God's curse, God's anathema, His ban on those behind their potential defection from Christ.
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The idea is anathema to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Independence for the Kurds is anathema to Turkey and Iran.
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Hitherto Macra's aims were strictly educational, social and cultural and involvement in economics, which had been strenuously resisted at all levels, was still an anathema to many.
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And when the white-robed boys came to the studio of the friends at the gate of S. Pier Gattolini, with what sighs and self-immolation Baccio looked for the last time at some of his studies which he judged to come under the head of anathemata, and handed them over to the acolytes.
Fra Bartolommeo
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Now 'precognition' or if we want to call it that 'presentiment' is a very popular (or populist) notion but one that is, for very good reasons a notion which is almost anathema to current highly respectable physics literature (Note 1), though not to the philosophy literature to the same extent.
McTaggart, Buber, Swartz and Sri Aurobindo
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
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Although Cockburn has impeccable environmentalist credentials - he's eager to save the redwoods - he was anathematized as ‘seriously warped ‘for holding such heretical notions.’
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Historically, the former systematically anathematized and later silence any who dared to disagree with their doctrines.
In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste
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The EU influence is widely perceived to be anathema to that, and as being in hock to big business.
Times, Sunday Times
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He understands t hat killing butterflies is anathema to other butterfly watchers, the vast majority of whom do not even carry nets (let alone nets named Marsha).
Butterfly Quest
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This is anathema to New Labour - a government which is uninterested in history, and which equates the whole notion of tradition with the ‘forces of conservatism’ holding the country back.
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Trent, like other councils, anathematized various things and basically said, ‘If you think this, you are not in the Church’.
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The Bourbon monarchies of Parma and Naples were swept by hysteria, and the Pope anathematized reform as a threat to faith itself.
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Yet they have been given a daily diet of statements from Democratic leaders that seem intent on not only avoiding a fight but also embracing candidates who would be anathema to the Democratic base.
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Such a view may seem anathema in rugby union.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peace required partial ideological abdication, in that each state treated as legitimate other states whose arguments for their own legitimacy were anathema to its own principles.
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Speedily the State was aflame with disturbances in temperance and teachers 'conventions, and the press heralded the news far and near that women delegates had suddenly appeared, demanding admission in men's conventions; that their rights had been hotly contested session after session, by liberal men on the one side, the clergy and learned professors on the other; an overwhelming majority rejecting the women with terrible anathemas and denunciations.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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A vartabed was sent to say, that if he continued of the same mind as before, the Patriarch did not wish to see him; and on the following Sabbath he was publicly anathematized in all the churches.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
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In those long years of Labour supremacy, the right was not merely out of office, but was anathematised and scorned.
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The notions of equality and liberty were anathema to him.
Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
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G. Sullogai epigrammaton Khristianikon eis te naous kai eikonas kai eis diaphora anathemata.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Sausages have traditionally been regarded as anathema to slimmers because they often include a lot of bread and rusk.
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Episcopi, anathematis fulmine terribiles, alios in suam potestatem redegerunt, alios furibunda s鎢itia id temporis persecuti sunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Just the other day, I was reading a music catechism from 1936 that came close to anathematizing the payment of musicians in parishes, since their reward will be in heaven.
10,000 Scores at CPDL
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It conjures up images of upper class society, a world of fancy dress balls and rules for deportment that are anathema to my very soul.
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This could be a nastier political fight than now foreseen, especially as Democrats try to soften up a big swath of the homeowning middle class for higher taxes by anathematizing them as the "rich.
The Fed Can't Fix Home Prices
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This caravan, the rude shouters at the town halls, and the whole anti-intellectual culture permeating the remnant base of the [R] party is an anathema to true dialog in a democratic society and is an EMBARRASSMENT to true conservatives.
No love for Harry Reid on the Tea Party Express
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The word is anathema to conservative or middle-of-the-road politicians in most countries, who see in it a radical and perhaps exaggerated voice.
Why there's no reason to fear feminism | Jonathan Glennie
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The whole notion of a "commons" is anathema to the plumbing construct.
Boing Boing: November 17, 2002 - November 23, 2002 Archives
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` No, no, 'I answered; ` if the ship was going down, and you had to take your chance in one of the boats, which would you choose, the one manned by those fellows you anathematise, or with the men you call obedient sons of the Church?'
Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times
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This ‘coffee’ is sweetened with ‘karippatti’ or jaggery as sugar is anathema to the champions of natural eating.
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Those terrible ideas are anathema to me.
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Theirs is a party that requires coalition for power, and if coalition itself becomes anathema to voters the party soon will be, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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The proposition that men and women have evolved different minds is anathema to every social scientist and politically correct individual.
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Rather, the subject provokes such intense controversy that it periodically becomes anathema.
Trauma and Recovery
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America's founders knew that corporate power was anathema to the public interest and the democratic will of the people, so they created a framework to run government like a government.
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The councils insisted on their definitions being accepted under pain of anathema, while St. Athanasius, for example, says that "the word of the Lord pronounced by the ecumenical synod of Nicaea stands for ever" (Ep. ad Afros, n. 2) and St. Leo the Great proves the unchangeable character of definitive conciliar teaching on the ground that God has irrevocably confirmed its truth "universae fraternitatis irretractabili firmavit assensu" (Ep. 120, 1).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The Reformation tended to reinforce the centrality of the family, and thus woman's subservient role as wife and mother - thereby outlawing and anathematising any female role perceived as non-familial or anti-familial.
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Payments to shareholders have been anathema to no-frills carriers since they burst onto the scene in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is anathematized as a prince of darkness, instead of the defense whiz he is.
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Violence was anathema to them.
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His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine.
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In the legend, the burden of hierarchical corruption is carried by the anathema hurled by the wives immolating themselves, and it culminates in a fatal robe of honour.
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The idea of the state snooping into the affairs of private citizens is anathema in a country which takes individual liberties seriously.
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Cher, if stirrin 'roux for an hour or so is anathematic, you need to put some chankachank on the box, like Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys ...
Saved by red beans and rice | Homesick Texan
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A key Israeli aim appears to be to sabotage any Turkish-led peace initiative to solve the Palestinian problem that includes the essential provision of a fully denuclearized Middle East -- anathema to (undeclared) nuclear power Israel.
Pepe Escobar: The Method in Israel's Madness
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The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists.
