Social facts have the remarkable feature of having no analogue among physical brute facts (34).

These new friends liked the ruthless use of force, the ethnic nationalism, the continued humiliation of the Palestinians.

Brute facts are all facts that are not institutional (metaphysical, social agreement) facts.

As Iraq has shown, hard military power alone cannot provide a solution.

It is time that Israel took its boot off Gaza s windpipe.

Here in Manila, our calls are met with water cannons, and now teargas and brute force.

The existence of language is itself constitutive of the social fact (37), which natural or brute facts do not require.

Here's your brute force approach. Once you get through your brute force approach, then you just rip off whole mountaintops. And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal fired gas plants. That is probably not the best use of bioenergy.

Ortega s display of raw power is thus merely a reminder of his autocratic ways.

Any resort to brute force to suppress demonstrations would finalize the regime s loss of legitimacy.

Bulldozers had dug up roads, destroying electricity lines, sewers and water pipes in a brutal and disproportionate display of power. Most of those killed or injured had been civilians.

And no tyranny can survive for long by relying on brute force alone.

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance. If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.

The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

But the reality is that the two issues are connected and the magnitude of the disaster has been made worse by the junta s single minded objective of preserving its power.

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance.

If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.

Um, no.

He showed us the reality of the Iraqi condition in his life, and he shows us the reality of the Iraqi condition in his death.

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal.

That s really my thinking.

An Unconventional Truth

That is just a fact.

The Reality of Virtual Power

Rumor or reality?

Truth or propaganda?

Natural or brute facts exist independently of language thus a mountain is a mountain in every language and in no language it simply is what it is.

One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.

True story, by the way.

I'm the embodiment of all truth.

Whose truth are we going to listen to?

There is only one truth!

This is an immutable truth.

Does she exist?

But there is something else.

She then continues

But, charges of corruption aside, this outcome indicates that gas is not such an easy source of hard economic power as it would first appear.

Yet there is another truth as well.

The benefits are huge.

But today, the rumor became the truth!

For the EU to succeed, it must pursue the policy launched by the French Presidency, giving priority to stopping the war and distancing itself from Israel s disproportionate use of force.

No. There's serious issues in the region.

Because walking has a real power.