(1) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(2) Individualist as well as contextualist approaches are presented.
(3) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(4) In this paper I examine longstanding individualistic assumptions and the contradictory and sometimes similar findings of research in this field despite the differing and ever increasing sophistication of measurement techniques and study design.
(5) The industrial working class is small, even in succesful manufacturing countries like Germany; the salariat is large; the phenomenon of the young, networked, individualist only adds to social democracy’s existential problem, which is: whose values do we represent?
(6) Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns.
(7) But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist.
(8) Understanding companion animal behavior and treating behavior problems requires an appreciation of both the species-typical and individualistic nature of the behavior of dogs and cats, as well as people.
(9) The author therefore hopes that our universities will, in the future, provide opportunities for young research workers as well as for somewhat older individualists.
(10) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
(11) Spontaneously driven phrenic cells possessed individualistic depolarization and spiking patterns that were a function of the conduction velocity in the different motor axons.
(12) Various of the planned central buildings were realised on both sides: the clustered, sculptural forms of the Cyril and Methodius University and the extraordinary Opera and Ballet Theatre , both designed by Slovenian architects, and from Macedonian designers, the Telecommunications Centre – a strange, individualistic example of organic brutalism – and the Trade Centre: a long, low shopping centre of overlapping terraces stepping subtly down to the river, its combination of enclosure and openness inspired by the structure of the bazaar.
(13) Their inconsistency and fluidity may stem from individualistic egalitarianism within Semai society and powerlessness in the face of nonSemai attack.
(14) Yet his case shows that traditional ideals are under growing pressure in a fast-changing, increasingly individualistic society.
(15) To reverse that trend, Americans would have to translate their individualistic spirit into an explicit ideological program: one that upheld individualism and laissez-faire capitalism as moral and political ideals.
(16) An overview is presented of the arguments economists have used to justify a system of collective health care from a broadly individualistic position.
(17) The 1988 survey asked 1,230 buyers why they had bought, and received hard-headed, individualistic, essentially Thatcherite responses: “good financial investment ... the ‘bargain’ which discounts on sales provided ... the sense of security ... of pride ... the freedom to repair or improve ... the desire to have something to leave the family ... to move up the housing ladder ... to increase mobility”.
(18) Men placed higher priority on individualistic approaches to adjustment, such as suppression of feelings.
(19) This individualistic worldview also extends to gun control, an issue at the heart of these now quasi-routine tragedies.
(20) The document retreats from the more challenging individualist aspects of the New Labour agenda, developed late under Tony Blair – challenging and fragmenting public services, rather than promoting uniform inadequacy.
Maverick
Definition:
(n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(3) And it's the same story across Europe: the populist right is on the march , along with a hotch-potch of anti-Brussels mavericks such as Italy's Beppe Grillo – and, in a handful of states, growing parties of the radical left.
(4) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
(5) The Kings won their second straight on Monday, beating the Dallas Mavericks 112-97, despite having only 10 players available after the seven-player trade with Toronto was finalized.
(6) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(7) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
(8) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
(9) Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road.
(10) He dresses in the familiar single-piece olive green uniform worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun, and like Cruise’s character, Maverick, he flies missions over war zones with multi-million dollar aircraft.
(11) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(12) We present what is known about the problems of mavericks for estimating odds ratios and clarify the interpretation of odds ratios.
(13) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(14) But it observes: "As a maverick of Chinese society, [Ai] likes 'surprising speech' and 'surprising behaviour'.
(15) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
(16) The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter.
(17) • Speaking of Mark Cuban and the Mavericks, no they did not draft Brittney Griner, like Cuban said they might, earlier this year .
(18) Armitage declined to comment on the possible switch, beyond: "Radio 2 tends to be where genius and the mavericks turn up."
(19) The prime minister also reinforced his reputation as the EU’s main maverick with a powerful anti-immigration manifesto that equates migrants with terrorists, says immigrants are taking Hungarians’ jobs, recommends internment camps for illegal immigrants and states they should be forced to work.
(20) "New Hampshire Republicans see themselves as mavericks in the Republican party," Scala said.