conjuncture

• “There is a short-term conjuncture, with the weakness of the US banks and the strength of the Canadian dollar, that encourages banks to take over financial institutions in the United”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “The loss of such a man, in such a crisis; of a man who possessed so large and growing a share of the public confidence, and whose administration has recently borrowed new lustre from the crowning achievements of our armies; of a ruler whom victory was inspiring with the wise and paternal magnanimity which sought to make the conciliation as cordial as the strife has been deadly: the loss of such a President, at such a conjuncture, is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep, sincere, and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven.”

  The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work

• “Such a time and such a conjuncture was the American Revolution.”

  Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers

• “In this current "conjuncture" we can at least get the numbers right, at 50/50, as we continue in the protracted struggle for complete transformation of all unequal power relations in our society and a better life for all.”

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• “Even in the shorter gāthās we may eliminate the common stock of refrains, and yet discern, in each residuum, a distinctly and pathetically individual note, telling its own story of a supreme 'conjuncture' seized, of Nibbana (in its later Sanskrit form, Nirvāṇā) or Arahantship won.”

  Psalms of the Sisters

• “conjuncture" that is so central to the theory of America in Decline is a nod to the work of Althusser who injected that concept deep into the communist discussoins of the 70s and 80s.”

  Kasama

• “All of the left-of-centre governments in Latin America -- even that of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez -- have had to trim their sails to a greater or lesser degree, as they find their place within the conjuncture of forces in which their countries are enmeshed -- popular support versus well-financed domestic opposition, the global marketplace, and, of course, the brooding presence of the US.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “In the current conjuncture of forces, a police union only exacerbates the culture of impunity that envelops police forces in this country.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Yes | No | Report from Paul Wilke wrote 30 weeks 1 day ago an ancient ritual that has to do with the conjuncture of the harvest of barley and hops, horny old men and just plain foolishness.”

  Strange Hunting Traditions

• “The election produced a new political conjuncture, unparalleled for 80 years.”

  The Guardian: The Coalition and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor – review

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