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I think this is therefore inadvertently more a demonstration of the inability of the
contemporary
film industry to discuss spirituality, than it is about Jesus, the Apostles or Mary Magdalene.
This movie was far more impressive then it's
contemporary
rival the rather silly (though still enjoyed) Conan the Barbarian.
Initially, I liked the humor; it was more shocking and
contemporary
than I expected, with an ironic twist.
We have lost both concepts in relation to much conduct in our
contemporary
world, but we urgently need to re-find them in relation to the new possibilities opened up by the life sciences if we are to continue to respect all life, especially human life.
Reformists, on the other hand, argue that individual judgment – diligence – is permissible, and that society is empowered to make choices based on
contemporary
needs, regardless of the opinions of previous religious scholars.
Overall, however, the administration’s foreign policy record compares favorably with that of any other modern US president or, for that matter, any other
contemporary
world leader.
The
contemporary
debate is similar.
While China will not change its ancient and admirable civilization, it owes its re-emergence to its embrace of the
contemporary
Western model of modernization – the huge achievement of Deng Xiaoping, who put the country on its current path more than three decades ago.
How to Help BurmaRANGOON – Across the Middle East, and now in Burma (Myanmar), one of the great questions of
contemporary
global politics has resurfaced: How can countries move from a failing authoritarianism to some form of self-sustaining pluralism?
Exuberant, exciting, gaudy, and gritty in a way that can only be called Dickensian, Slumdog Millionaire brings
contemporary
Mumbai to life from the seamy side up, and it does so with brio, compassion, and all-round cinematic excellence.
There may be another difference, however, between the persecution of Jews and
contemporary
hostility to Muslims.
But
contemporary
Asia’s economic miracle rests on a less-discussed strategic miracle: the maintenance of peace and order.
Jia’s movie is episodic; four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from
contemporary
newspaper stories.
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of
contemporary
Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
In his own way, though, he is an engaging, polite man, hip to
contemporary
cultural icons, and even given to singing at public occasions with wry lyrics and verses.
Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about
contemporary
technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
In any case, North Korea – which has invested heavily in forward deployed special forces and other asymmetrical elements of
contemporary
warfare – seems to be gearing up for an offensive, if only it can get the US out of the way.
Their vote was a protest against globalization, a rejection of the
contemporary
world, with its distant and incomprehensible governing mechanisms.
From the analysis of the deceptive nature of complexity, there followed the recommendation of the Communist Manifesto that seems most attractive to
contemporary
“Marxists.”
To be sure, profound political and cultural distinctions exist between Iran in the 1970’s and
contemporary
Pakistan.
Acting on such beliefs in his political career made him a politician of the kind that the
contemporary
world no longer sees.
Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because
contemporary
generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that enabled the West to pave the way to modern democracy.
But adapting this Western legacy for the
contemporary
Arab world, while recovering Arabs’ own medieval heritage of tolerance and scientific excellence, will be difficult.
Contemporary
commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed.
Drug cartels and gang warfare may ruin the lives of thousands of innocent people, but they should not be seen as equivalent to the ideological revolutionaries who used to wreak havoc in the region, or to
contemporary
mass terrorists.
Just as most macroeconomic models do not adequately account for the financial sector and its associated flows, nor do
contemporary
balance-of-payments analyses.
But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and
contemporary
America.
According to a
contemporary
description of Louis XIV, which could easily be applied to Trump, “[t]here was nothing he liked so much as flattery or, to put it more plainly, adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished it.”
One
contemporary
observer’s description of Baroque court culture could be applied to the Kushner-Bannon relationship today: “The court is a place where no friend is ever close enough not to become an enemy later.”
The nub of the problem is that
contemporary
European civilization is secular, whereas Muslim civilization is religious.
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