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A recent straw poll among black minist ers showed that Brown is the clear favorite over several African-American candidates.
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Prof. KENNEDY: Yes, minist -- member of Parliament, as he would be, of course, to hold a ministerial post.
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression & War 1999
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Even as I left the presidency, I had the same feeling of awe and reverence for the room as when I first entered it in early minist -- administrations. '
A World Transformed 1998
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Last year he provoked protests from the government - which pays for his welfare - with his the astronomical telephone bills, which totalled more than a third of the telecommunications budget of the minist
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Hartley denied, in a general scholium, that his theory had reductionist implications, he did accept its deter - minist consequences:
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968
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On special deter - minist theories see especially Henry Adams, The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (New York, 1919); Isaiah Berlin,
DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968
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The SPD's isolationism justified itself by a deter - minist social philosophy; maintenance of the “correct” status quo in ideology and program would bring about the eventual collapse of self-contradictory capitalism and the victorious inheritance of socialism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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Secondly, special deter - minist doctrines do not necessarily imply or presuppose universal determinism.
DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968
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Marx into an almost mechanical materialist and deter - minist as were the Stalinists of a much later epoch.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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Bernstein opposed the potential violence of revolution, emphasizing instead the need for legal transformation (even “expropriation of the exploiters” was to take place through agreed compensation); he also argued strongly against deter - minist notions of historical necessity which deprived human beings of the capacity to shape their own des - tiny.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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