Word: alienating
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...going to continue to permit the pressure of alien doctrines to strongly influence the orientation of foreign and domestic policy or regain trust in our own traditions, experience and free institutions and the wisdom of our own people...
...with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its fight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally...
...Islam in adversity is as great a marvel of impervious defense as it once was a marvel of invincible expansion. It survived three centuries of almost complete political and economic subjugation by alien powers. Generations of Christian mission aries beat upon it without making a dent. Year after year, the converts to Islam far outnumber the apostates from Islam...
...Christianity had not come until the 4th Century with the conversion of Constantine; Islam's political crisis, confronting Mohammed at the start of his mission, colored all his teaching and all the subsequent his tory of Islam. Separation of God and Caesar, church and state, would always be alien and painful to Islam. Islam would always be as much a way of organizing society as it was a way of worshiping...
...nista General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), they were striking for the freedom of their union. To Perón, who regards Argentine labor as his permanent prop and personal property, the uproar was acutely embarrassing: first he tried to ignore it by blaming the disturbances on "alien" (i.e., U.S.) influences. Then he had to face facts and invoke emergency powers making strikers subject to military law. That worked, but labor had had one more good look at iron heel...