Today, that view is intellectually and morally indefensible.

And she said, And then intellectually, I don't know enough about the negative imagination.

We have one human heritage, but culturally, civilizationally and intellectually we are very diverse.

The main objective of the programme is to rescue human and professional self esteem, intellectually and emotionally.

Their achievements, intellectually and scientifically, are extraordinary, and they are so relevant for these times that we are in when we are riding out storms.

And technology pushed composers to tremendous extremes, using computers and synthesizers to create works of intellectually impenetrable complexity beyond the means of performers and audiences.

But, besides being intellectually and scientifically interesting, it's also very different than the other things I do, because you get to hike around in the badlands.

The policy also recognizes that it is essential to provide better support to families and other caregivers of the intellectually disabled and to reinforce intersectoral collaboration.

And so, as Muslims were intellectually regressing, Europeans began their renaissance, developing improved ways of meeting their needs, including the manufacture of weapons that eventually allowed them to dominate the world.

And so it's wonderful for us to think intellectually about how the life of the world is, and especially those who are very smart we can play this game in our head.

Our leaders may be intellectually challenged, but they are not suicidal. Deficit reduction eventually will be put into cold storage, either openly, as I would prefer, or surreptitiously, as is politicians way.

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.

But what people in this room know, and what we have to remind ourselves, though because you can know something intellectually, you can know what to do and then not use it, not apply it.

For Europeans, with our turbulent eastern and southern neighborhoods, this presents an additional security challenge for which we are materially and intellectually unprepared. Even today, Europe s military weakness is working to undermine the transatlantic relationship.

But no amount of money will succeed in modernizing Putin's kleptocratic regime, which has already squandered trillions in oil wealth. Simply put, the Putin system is politically, institutionally, and intellectually antithetical to the task of modernization.

The answer is not hard to find. In all likelihood, these leaders sense, either instinctively or intellectually, an impending crisis that could imperil the CCP s survival in the same way that the French Revolution ended Bourbon rule.

The Bahá'í International Community views the purpose of development as contributing to the foundation for a new social and international order, capable of creating and sustaining conditions in which human beings can advance morally, culturally, and intellectually.

Moreover, intellectually, these women remind us that Western feminism did not have to evolve the way it did, and can still change and grow to embrace a more satisfying and humane definition of equality. Simone de Beauvoir, whose seminal book

For a fiscal union to function however unlikely that outcome may be a solid foundation is crucial. As Gauck explained, Europeans are pausing to equip themselves both intellectually and emotionally for the next step, which will require them to enter uncharted territory.

In this respect, Europe is not much better, although its current restrictive immigration policies will likely be eased over the next decade or so. No such assumption can be made about Japan, where an aging population will intensify the closed and intellectually arid nature of its society.

Although Zhao was no visionary, no Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa, and not even anti communist, his agenda in the mid 1980 s embraced the economy, politics, culture, media, and society, and it led to one of the most open and intellectually rich periods of Chinese history.

In that period, he has been Deputy Minister of Finance, founding Chairman of China s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, and now Minister of Finance. I have always found him to be direct, intellectually curious, a first rate analytical thinker, and a forward looking advocate of market based reforms.

It is intellectually and politically unsettling to realize that, if the West cannot quickly straighten out its systems of government, only politically un reformed states like China will be able to make the decisions that a nation needs to survive in today s high speed, high tech, increasingly globalized world.

Opposition leaders also intend to debate such issues as the rights of women and minority groups, and the place of Shari a, the Islamic legal code, which has replaced civil courts in several northern states. Reformers also have the Obasanjo government s neo liberal economic policies, which they describe as punitive and intellectually bankrupt, in their sights.

Precautionary types would reacquaint us with our humble animal origins, from which we have strayed for much too long, whereas exponents of the proactionary principle would expedite our departure from our evolutionary past. At the very least, they would re engineer our biology, if not replace it altogether with some intellectually superior and more durable substratum.

LONDON The Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek, who died in 1992 at the age of 93, once remarked that to have the last word requires only outliving your opponents. His great good fortune was to outlive Keynes by almost 50 years, and thus to claim a posthumous victory over a rival who had savaged him intellectually while he was alive.

Throughout the so called war on terror, the notion of a clash of civilization between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded. Instead, the most common interpretation has been that the world has entered a new era characterized by conflict within a particular civilization, namely Islam, with fundamentalist Muslims as much at war against moderates as against the West.

And yet Meles is irreplaceable unmatched intellectually as an African leader (he dropped out of medical school, but went on to teach himself impeccable English and obtain European university degrees by correspondence), and unmatched politically at home, with no obvious successor groomed to replace him. In the Horn of Africa, there is no leader of his stature who could ensure the stability and strong governance that the region so desperately needs.