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manifest destiny

NOUN
  1. a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God)

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  • This national identity had been created by the sensible spirit of business enterprise, linking the provinces like great beads on an iron railroad line, rather than by any evangelical preachment of a Manifest Destiny — manifest only to its Anglo perpetrators — that had hurled the agglutinated United States westwards and then outwards, across all the oceans, where its boy soldiers lost limbs and died. 'The Widows of Eastwick'
  • Because for students to learn about the many atrocities strewn along the path of Manifest Destiny would upset the national narrative of continual social progress, rugged individualism, and free enterprise. Michelle Chen: Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle
  • Despite the great successes and future promise of automated, commandable, unmanned spacecraft in providing vital human services and scientific advances, the President and Congress persist in giving primary emphasis to the misty-eyed concept that the manifest destiny of mankind is to live and work in space. Van Allen's Wisdom
  • The doctrine of manifest destiny was distinct from the imperialist dynamic that flourished around the turn of the century.
  • Many even began to speak of this expansion as their nation's ‘Manifest Destiny’.
  • Benton was a standard bearer for what came to be called Manifest Destiny, the idea that the United States was justly fated to fill the continent.
  • It is the continuation of an abominable racist policy called Manifest Destiny carried forward. Corpses in the Garden
  • Is that the end for what was once thought to be humanity's manifest destiny? Times, Sunday Times
  • Regarding the aforementioned statement about our history with Native-Americans, the film is not so much anti-military, as it is anti-genocide, and anti-manifest destiny, making it thus anti-ethnocentrism and anti-overbearing theocentrism. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
  • One of these days, over the Taiwan Straits or Central Asia, we will learn that eternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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