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...would be unwise to push this fact too far. Except in France, where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate. For many years, liberals have been in favor of expanding and improving social security; would it make sense to refer to them as "Junker liberals" merely because the first social security system was instituted in the regime of Otto von Bismarck...
Speaking as the Kremlin's apostolic legate in partibus infidelium, Togliatti summed up: "We know that there exists in Russia a regime of religious freedom...
...Ceteris Partibus. In London Archbishop Bernard Griffin, youngest cardinal designate (46), retrieved the flowing cappa magna of the late Cardinal Kinsley from the Gainsborough Film Studios (to whom they had been lent for a Paganini movie), had it altered to fit, set out for Rome...
...indifference which the undergraduate wears so proudly on his shoulder, we have always noted with keen delight how the fair name of Harvard is treasured "in partibus infidelium," and in the desolate, barren, exotic, tropical, and sandy wastes of the world. We have just heard of one of these noble sentiments which arose from a controversy in Alexandria, Virginia...
John H. Clarke, League missionary in partibus infidelium...