Word: explicit
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...intention of the Founding Fathers to rear up "a nation without religious faith, or [build] a system of education for that nation's youth without implicit, and probably explicit, recognition of God as the ground of Truth . . . It has been aptly said: they were seeking to provide freedom of religion, not freedom from religion . . ." In its recent decisions, therefore, the court has travestied history.* The theory of separation "as currently propounded, far from being a perpetuation of the national tradition, represents a novel innovation in direct contradiction to the convictions of our forebears and the established habits...
French-born John Calvin founded the University of Geneva in 1559, and its students helped make the explicit, consistent, theological structure of Calvinism into the most influential and powerful Reformation church in Europe. Chief addition of Calvin to Luther's doctrine of justification by faith was the emphasis upon man's utter helplessness before an awesome and all-powerful God who had predetermined until the end of time who would be saved by His grace and who would be left to the eternal damnation all men deserved. In his doctrine of the Communion, Calvin differed from Luther...
Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "Italy has accepted its duties and its place in the political array of the world after an accurate examination of its ideas, its interests and its geopolitical position. If she wavered, if she betrayed intrinsic and explicit loyalties, she would finish as Masaryk and Benes finished...
...sense that Italy could presume to sit between two worlds. Italy has accepted its duties and its place in the political array of the world, after an accurate examination of its ideas, its interests and its geopolitical position. If it wavered, if it betrayed intrinsic and explicit loyalties, it would finish as Masaryk and Benes finished...
...think about big words. By big I mean fine high-sounding words like 'honor' and 'noble' and 'courage,' and I spent most of my time scribbling them down." Later, as a recognized poet on a lecture tour in California, he was more explicit: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed...