Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assuming that victory is within reach, Massoud has been devoting time to his second major concern, the maneuvering for advantage among the seven mujahedin parties. All members of the Peshawar alliance are fighting for a country under an Islamic dispensation, but the political shape of that concept is something on which they differ sharply...
...excited about the prospect of fulfilling my civic obligation. I have always been interested in the way law and the courts work--hey, I did mock trials in high school--so this would be a chance to see the real thing in action. I also firmly believe in the concept of trial by a jury of one's peers; it is undeniably one of the cornerstones of our judicial system, and goes hand in hand with the American conception of democracy...
...only the first of the provocative ideas that fill the pages of Three Scientists and Their Gods, a book that intertwines the biographies of three men with an exploration of the modern concept of "information...
...concept it was clever, the execution...
Unlike the Burmese, most Haitians have been so numbed by generations of brutal tyranny that they have not been exposed to the concept of constitutional rule and limits on the arbitrariness of government. Anthony Downs, a Georgetown University political scientist, stresses the difficulty of sowing the seeds of democracy in a soil that has never grown that crop before. Says Downs: "People who have tried to start instant democracies have almost always failed...