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  • The WORLD is not anglo-american + satraps alliance of TERROR!

    If North Korea is bad… « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • That seems like a hopelessly anglo-american approach to poetics and philosophy.

    Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Since Davidson rejects both sceptical and relativist positions, while nevertheless insisting of the indispensability of an irreducibly basic concept of objective truth, Davidson cannot be easily situated with respect to the realist/anti-realist controversy that, until quite recently, was a major concern of many anglo-american philosophers.

    Donald Davidson Malpas, Jeff 2009

  • They have that power - this is Marbury's central point - because in the anglo-american tradition, courts have always had to determine what the law applicable to a given case is in order to determine how the case comes out, and in a hierarchical legal system, a hierarchically superior rule prevails over a hierarchically inferior rule.

    Who will determine whether John McCain is a "natural-born citizen," qualified for the presidency? Ann Althouse 2008

  • William Patry, incidentally Google's copyright man, and, more pertinently, pretty much the world's leading expert on anglo-american copyright, has the shameless demand of the Music Business Group MBG, a coalition of UK music publishers, record labels, and licensing organisations, for a second licensing fee for personal format shifting nicely skewered in this great post:

    Where Would We Be Without Patry? glyn moody 2008

  • A comment along the lines of “white people have a superiority complex. white people eat peanut butter and jelly and drink lots of beer” i do not believe any of these statements, just the first things that popped into my head But she did not make these comments because she feels a connection to her anglo-american side.

    Jessica Alba Glamour Magazine July 2007 2007

  • The mythos is also holding up despite what people think, although it doesn't have to go so far as to justify BSG's 21st century anglo-american centrism which makes no sense unless, the cylons are actually enhanced avatars living in some MMORG who are fleeing like their human counterparts from the destruction of their virtual world.

    The Episode That Broke Me and Other "Crossroads II" Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • Today's fav expression is "Zivilgesellschaft" = civic society modelled after the anglo-american example.

    Civicus 2006

  • Zealous missionaries are one of the rare aspects of the anglo-american world i truly despise.

    Converting the Taiwanese Working Class to Christianity Michael Turton 2006

  • The evaluative claim (II) that legal rules ought to be efficient would, if directed to judges, qualify as a theory of adjudication, one of the central concerns of anglo-american philosophy of law.

    The Economic Analysis of Law Kornhauser, Lewis 2006

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