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When I attended the production at The Barns, I thought Held's performance stole the opera to the point that it could've been called Leporello.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: As Wolf Trap Opera Marks 40th Year, 14 Star Alumni to Return for Benefit Concert Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011
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Held's meaning is not entirely clear, but her general point seems to be that before the polis came to be, there were families, some of them very unjust in that men were privileged over women, or that the old were favored over the young.
Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009
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In Held's estimation, too many traditional ethicists bless a human relationship as moral to the degree it serves the separate interests of individual rational contractors.
Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009
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It could be argued that, as far as justice and rights are concerned, terrorism (or, in Held's terminology, the kind of terrorism that targets the innocent) is never justified.
Terrorism Primoratz, Igor 2007
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For all these advantages, the self-legislating demos reappears in Held's explicitly Lockean insistence that “the artificial person at the center of the modern state must be reconceived in terms of cosmopolitan public law.”
Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007
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Furthermore, the commitment to human rights as legal statuses pushes Habermas in the direction of Held's fundamentally legal form of political cosmopolitanism.
Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007
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Contrary to his earlier essay on Kant's Perpetual Peace, Habermas has now pulled back from Held's strong conception of cosmopolitanism.
Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007
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Less than a minute later, the skimmer slipped into its docking receptacle as neatly as Clarity Held's graceful foot into a waiting slipper.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Less than a minute later, the skimmer slipped into its docking receptacle as neatly as Clarity Held's graceful foot into a waiting slipper.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Less than a minute later, the skimmer slipped into its docking receptacle as neatly as Clarity Held's graceful foot into a waiting slipper.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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