Slate

Inscribed in a Preserved Slate.

Inscribed in a Preserved Slate.

McCain got the majority of the state, all of the electors will be chosen from McCain's slate or from the republican party slate.

Maybe we can wipe the slate clean.

I gotta die with a clean slate.

Of course, Nottola's name must not appear on the slate.

This is a touching slate meant for blind children.

Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate

The book is called The Blank Slate, based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and that all of its structure comes from socialization, culture, parenting, experience.

The blank slate was an influential idea in the 20th century.

Don't leave two stones standing together. Just wipe the slate clean.

It is not a clean slate situation there are certain given facts.

You want to meet your maker with a clean slate, don't you?

If they can't find a fiend, they just wipe their slate clean...

Here is a ceremonial slate palette, found in Egypt, dated before 3,000 BC.

Trailer number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.

Now we've got a chance to liquidate and start over with a clean slate.

And you can absolutely never, absolutely never, because of history and the inherited plan, start with a clean slate.

The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.

I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely.

In 2005, we launched our first slate of films, Murder Ball, North Country, Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck.

Please don't take this as a betrayal, but I won't be on the same slate as Nottola.

Japan, while failing to make a clean slate of its past, is now seeking a permanent seat on the Security Council.

This is strips of Velcro, this is my drawing slate, and this is my drawing pen, which is basically a film box.

(a) The promulgation of Act No. 25.779 in September 2003, declaring the Due Obedience and Clean Slate Acts absolutely null and void

There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense.

In its commentary on draft article 16, the Commission concluded after an extensive review of State practice that no exception to the clean slate principle applies to general multilateral treaties and multilateral treaties of a law making character. In the context of the clean slate doctrine, therefore, the Commission refused to create a special exception for law making treaties.

You are not actually voting for candidate A, you are actually voting for a slate of electors who promised to vote for that candidate.

But for me, unlike them, in my world, the slate was not clean, and what was written on it was not encouraging.

And the roster of famous voice over actors among them Jenny Slate, Nick Offerman, Mahershala Ali and Chloë Sevigny makes for a decent game of spot the voice.

And if you look at them, the slate of the post colonial leaders an assortment of military fufu heads, Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberators, vampire elites, quack revolutionaries.

Now, given both the common sense and scientific data calling the doctrine of the blank slate into question, why should it have been such an appealing notion?

But if something is written on the slate, then some people could have more of it than others, and according to this line of thinking, that would justify discrimination and inequality.

But what I wanted to talk about are two of these hot buttons that have aroused the strongest response in the 80 odd reviews that The Blank Slate has received.

All elections shall be held by secret ballot unless, in the absence of any objection, the Conference decides to proceed without taking a ballot on an agreed candidate or slate of candidates.

Mr. Willians Slate (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish) My delegation joins previous speakers in congratulating you, Mr. Chairman, on your well deserved election and in congratulating the other members of the Bureau.

Article 16 establishes a general clean slate principle to the effect that a newly independent State is not bound by treaties formerly in force in respect of the territory to which the succession of States relates.

Election of officers 1. All elections shall be held by secret ballot unless, in the absence of any objection, the Commission decides to proceed without taking a ballot when there is an agreed candidate or slate.

Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.

Well, the argument in The Blank Slate was that elite art and criticism in the 20th century, although not the arts in general, have disdained beauty, pleasure, clarity, insight and style.

Given the fact that there have been three ballots and in the light of our commitment to the Asian Group that we would not stand in the way of a clean slate, we wish to facilitate the proceedings today by withdrawing our candidature.

The gradualist approach to improvement of the methodology in order to measure the capacity to pay more accurately must be continued, for a clean slate or unilateral approach might open up a Pandora s box of claims and counter claims which would lead to even greater distortions.

We launched two titles in October Rockett's New School the first of a series of products is about a character called Rockett beginning her first day of school in eighth grade at a brand new place, with a blank slate, which allows girls to play with the question of, What will I be like when I'm older?

In an effort to stem recurrent debt crises, traditional societies embraced the Law of Jubilee, a ceremonial wiping clean of the slate. The Law of Jubilee, writes Graeber, stipulated that all debts be automatically canceled in the Sabbath year (that is, after seven years had passed), and that all who languished in bondage owing to such debts would be released.