Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invited to Harvard by the Law School's Racially Motivated Violence Project, pointed out that the Church's role is "distinct" from that of the state...
When confronted with a moral problem--whether or not a poor man should steal a drug for his dying wife that the druggist would not give him--the boy and girl responded differently in ways that, according to Gilligan, reveal the two distinct moral voices...
...government line, or even−form cabals to pursue narrow issues. The 58 Tory members from Quebec may prove especially difficult to control. Most of them are parliamentary newcomers with little experience in the customs and folkways of Ottawa−and with much dedication to their province's distinct identity. Mulroney is no doubt aware of the hazards. Diefenbaker, his onetime mentor, won a large majority in 1958 but could not hold it together. Some members grew tired of hewing the party line; others championed regional questions. The government crumbled after five years...
...addition, students and administrators alike complain that the House system creates distinct types of environments, whose stereotypical reputations--whether for academic excellence, athletic prowess, or eccentricity--were borne out in a College study of the House system done last year...
...continent from Indonesia about 10,000 years ago and, isolated from the influence of other societies, had been culturally trapped in the Stone Age. But recent studies of skeletons reveal the aborigines as a far more ancient people. There appears to be evidence from bone structure of two distinct migrations of modern man's predecessor, Homo erectus, to Australia some 40,000 years ago, one from Java and the other from China...