In the same period, the reformism of the sixties became, in some quarters, a stern, absolutist enterprise.
The author also grasps how crucial England's political, anti- absolutist traditions were to the development of American democracy.
Yet other absolutist royal families, notably the Habsburgs, would survive until the wreck of old Europe in 1918.
The American people are not absolutist, and they don't elect us to impose a rigid ideology on our problems.
But northern Mexico, desperate for reliable gas supplies to fuel its thriving manufacturing sector, couldn't afford to be so absolutist.
These tragic heroes exist on both sides of the aisle, pulling us into a continuing spiral of hardening absolutist positions.
One is that they are rejecting the more absolutist or interpretations of Islam that their parents practiced in mosques in the United States.
We see that, above all, in the recent debate -- how the recent debate has obscured the truth and sends people into opposite and absolutist ends.
The estimate of only 150 police cameras in the Boston area was made by the American Civil Liberties Union, which leads absolutist campaigns across the country against their use.
She offers an absolutist antidote to abuse of eminent domain: Officials should not be allowed to use condemnation to take property from one private owner and hand it to another.
In practice, Germany does not always take an absolutist view: it was one of the first countries to breach the euro's rules on deficits, and its debt-to GDP ratio is close to the euro-area average, higher than that of wobbly Spain.
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It was as if, to take the terrible dialectic one step further, the dream of total peace that had produced the fact of total war threw the bleeding and bewildered masses back on the only fixed point left: an absolutist religiosity, made more fanatic by persecution.
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