Intellectually, he may be on the side of modernity, but emotionally and aesthetically he is seduced by the idea of history as a natural cycle which is both forever changing and always the same.
That was the great sort of thesis behind the idea of the end of history.
They can point to the fact the revolution was explicitly ruled legal by the Treaty Of Paris of 1783, and that much of British history afterward supports the idea of independence and the dismantling of the colonial empire.
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But one of Mr Allen's local authority partners, Eric Milligan, who sits on the Lothian and Borders Police Board, said the idea of a single force betrayed the localised history of Scottish policing and threatened the independence of the force.
But John Micklethwait, the author of "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea" and U.S. editor of "The Economist", disagrees.
No monument captures Mr Hussein's idea of his own place in history better than Babel, the ruined capital of the eponymous Babylonians.
Anyone who finds either of these two concepts a good idea in times of crisis has not learned anything from history.
He begins each chapter with a beautifully curated history of the idea he is exploring.
Buyers tempted by the idea of owning a piece of architectural history should remember that it's rarely as straightforward as winning a bidding war.
In his book, Home: A Short History of an Idea, Witold Rybczynski describes this early form of home automation in a way that sounds like the 19th Century equivalent of a venture backed start-up.
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We've been trying to trace the history of the idea of making the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and all the ocean around them a national monument, and we get as far back as 1999 at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
And I think there is certainly plenty of history to support that idea.
The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
We don't like the idea of wannabes trying to horn in on our institutional history.
It was only at his military funeral when his service history was extolled that we had any idea of the way that he had distinguished himself.
Regular TSEs are a good idea in particular for males who have had a history of an undescended testicle or who have a family history of testicular cancer.
Colbert, as well as much of the tech blogosphere, had previously mocked Schmidt for this idea of teenagers changing their names and scrubbing their e-history clean at turning 18.
Not every idea generated from a hack day will dramatically alter the course of history.
In a conventional, waterfall scenario, the first camp only gets people to buy-in to their idea if they are powerful and charming and have a history of success as an innovator.
Van Raaij also says there is widespread support around Europe's smaller countries for the idea, despite the extra travelling time and the lack of a common history between the participants.
Markets were obscenely high in the first quarter of the year, valuing companies that sometimes owned little more than an idea higher than companies with real products, assets and a history of profits.
We are executing that idea across a lot of channels, and NASCAR has such a rich history of innovation that incorporating our mission with NASCAR in its new video series was a natural progression.
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Eleven years ago, Charles Best was a history teacher in the Bronx with the seed of an idea.
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Further back in history, Confucius would have been appalled by the very idea of the Olympic games, never mind the sour grapes.
At that point, it was just an idea--but it would soon become one of the most enduring jingles in history.
Shortly after A Brief History of Time came out, Ferguson approached Hawking with the idea of writing a book for young people about him and his theories.
When, in the history of American Capitalism, did putting your own money behind an idea that shines the light on others mis-management become a dirty word?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro is a history of the nonsense called the "authorship question": the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own works, that there was a widespread conspiracy to hide the identity of the true author or authors.
At the very least, the savers that Bowyer properly elevates (every economic advance in the history of mankind has resulted from the savings being matched with a brilliant idea) would no longer suffer capital gains taxes on their economy-enhancing investments.
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