Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope of Luther's work has made him the subject of endless reinterpretation. The Enlightenment treated him as the father of free thought, conveniently omitting his belief in a sovereign God who inspired an authoritative Bible. During the era of Otto von Bismarck a century ago, Luther was fashioned into a nationalistic symbol; 70 years later, Nazi propagandists claimed him as one of their own by citing his anti-Jewish polemics...
...with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...Sovereign Power of the United States rests with its People. Ken Tomkinson
...they are going to go for Indiana. We've got a cloud hanging over us." Even the state government is suffering from guilt by association. Says Lyle Jacobsen, assistant state treasurer: "It's scary. We're launching a campaign to tell people that Whoops and the sovereign state of Washington are two separate things. The state will pay its bills...
...host of cooperative understandings, and for Moscow's broad endorsement of a number of human rights concerns. Yet many Western diplomats now describe the Helsinki agreement as "a mess." Despite the restrictions contained in the accords, notably clauses respecting national sovereignty and rejecting interference in the affairs of sovereign states, the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan and encouraged Polish authorities to impose martial law. Moscow has continued the energetic repression of its own dissidents, most of whom were inspired by the very declarations that Moscow endorsed in Helsinki...