It's a story of nations, of ideologies, of territories, and of conflicts among them.

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however, an intellectual revolution occurred.

The last two decades of the 19th century were also marked by the development of a Haitian intellectual culture.

So he has no right to claim, as he has, a stunning victory in an epic intellectual debate.

Left at this stage, knowledge is simply intellectual property, access to which is restricted to paying customers.

Opposing parties use the same weapons, develop comparable tactics, and preach increasingly similar ideals.

Around each one of our courses, a community of students had formed, a global community of people around a shared intellectual endeavor.

They spoke with a passion, an urgency, an intellectual conviction that, for me, was a voice I had not heard in decades, a dream long forgotten.

many Bahrain men who joined terrorism ISIS came from security institutions and those institutions were the first ideological incubator Nabeel Rajab ( NABEELRAJAB) September 28, 2014

The Brookings Institution is an American centrist think tank based on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

Most important, it will have profound intellectual benefits by creating incentives for the active pursuit of ideas.

It was not a single movement or school of thought, it was less a set of ideas than it was a set of values.

This includes promotion of women's entrepreneurship, under the guidance of a special women's entrepreneurship think tank.

Middle level managers 24 per cent.

(b) Arising from an original contract for the sale, lease or licence of industrial or other intellectual property or of proprietary information

Eranos is an intellectual discussion group dedicated to the study of psychology, religion, philosophy and spirituality which has met annually in Switzerland since 1933.

So, the thing that's wonderful for me about finding dinosaurs is that it is both an intellectual thing, because you're trying to reconstruct the environment of millions of years ago.

The century ahead will not be a struggle between China and the US for global leadership. This is not a balance of power gladiatorial contest.

So in a sense, the Chinese bubble as much an intellectual and political bubble as an economic one has burst.

Pars Arts is financially independent, so we are not funded by any government, political party, think tank, or religious organization.

Writing for such journals as The Weekly Standard , and using the pulpits of think tanks, such as the American Enterprise Institute, neo cons offered an intellectual boost to the invasion of Iraq.

In a recent blog post on The 7th Eye, Prof. Gabriel Weimann challenged the view that Israeli media is becoming increasingly biased and polarized due to ideological reasons.

Consumer culture theory is the study of consumption choices and behaviours from a social and cultural point of view, as opposed to an economic or psychological one.

In 2001, media critic Eric Alterman said that New America Foundation was not liberal nor a progressive think tank and did not know what it was.

One school of thought maintains that the Cold War was won as a result of decades of sustained US and Western pressure on the Soviet Union and its allies.

Such an orientation would allow it to examine a wider range of policy and programmatic options and to cultivate a diversity of intellectual contributions, thereby enriching the visioning process.

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis ) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic.

Approaching them as alternatives is, in fact, little more than an intellectual remnant of the Cold War, much like the concept of state capitalism itself.

Whoever participates or is involved in hostilities outside the Kingdom or joins radical religious and intellectual groups or currents, will be sentenced by no less than three years and not more than twenty years in prison.

The peacekeeping missions themselves have also evolved substantively in the past years into complex operations of a multidimensional character with their own intellectual, managerial and logistical capacities.

The terms permissible impermissible , meanwhile, managed to convey the sense the Commission wished to give to reservations at the current stage and were neutral, notwithstanding their association with a particular school of thought.

(b) The growing importance of achieving intellectual and cultural unanimity in combating racism and xenophobia and the need to draw up an intellectual strategy for the fight against racism to be applied in the area of ideas, concepts, images, representations, perceptions and value systems

(i) The historical and cultural depth of these three phobias, and thus the need to complement legal strategies with an intellectual and ethical strategy relating to the processes, mechanisms and representations which constitute these phobias over time

Recognizing the importance of building appropriate intellectual capacities in the developing countries to help them achieve the Millennium Development Goals and more broadly the internationally agreed development goals, which constitute additional financial and technical obligations,

Recalling that the Human Development Report is the result of an independent intellectual exercise and that the policies governing the operational activities for development of the United Nations system will continue to be set by Member States,

This limitation was first elucidated by Heisenberg through a thought experiment, and is represented mathematically in the new formalism by the non commutativity of operators representing quantum observables.

Such self evident normative truths provide the basis for Parfit s defense of objectivity in ethics.

Moreover, there is a fundamentally creative element to innovation it results from an intellectual process that takes time, and that in retrospect always seem inexplicably slow or episodic.

When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the intellectual property of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can claim limitless profits through royalty payments.

While the Fund remains wedded to eventual financial liberalization, it now acknowledges that free movement of capital rests on a much weaker intellectual foundation than does the case for free trade.

Opposing parties use the same weapons, develop comparable tactics, and preach increasingly similar ideals. So it goes, until the rules of the game change.

I try to figure out intellectually, philosophically, psychologically, what the experience of beauty is, what sensibly can be said about it and how people go off the rails in trying to understand it.

Indeed, Henry Kissinger once told me that he believes that Chinese traditional thought has a greater chance than any foreign ideology (say, Marxism or liberalism) of becoming the dominant intellectual force behind Chinese foreign policymaking.

And he explained, in a very generous way, the spirit that brought all these different people to the Institute for Advanced Study in the '40s to do this project, and make it freely available with no patents, no restrictions, no intellectual property disputes to the rest of the world.

There's this focus that, once it becomes intense, leads to a sense of ecstasy, a sense of clarity you know exactly what you want to do from one moment to the other you get immediate feedback.