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  • A recent straw poll among black minist ers showed that Brown is the clear favorite over several African-American candidates.

    A New Ager's Last Call 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Secondly, special deter - minist doctrines do not necessarily imply or presuppose universal determinism.

    DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

  • 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

  • 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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