It is a far cry from the original hacker ethos of making one cool thing, though perhaps still close to the hacker ideal of remaking the world.

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The corollaries of this American ethos were, on the one hand, an affinity for personal enterprise and industry and, on the other, a horror of dependency and contempt for anything that smacked of a mendicant mentality.

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One sees a truly modest man whose ethos of service to others is paramount.

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No law restrains that quite large body of American thought which is critical not just of extreme readings of Islam but of Islam itself arguing that the warrior ethos of the faith's earlier centuries was one of its essential features, not just a regrettable excess.

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But these countries shared one common element: a strong Confucian family ethos.

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The ethos of this team, at least of late, is one of Teutonic efficiency.

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But in his public life, Kennedy was the kind of politician who seems absent from modern politics, one who was loyal to an ideological outlook -- an ethos, as Sobchak would say -- and who devoted his career toward fighting for that cause.

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Nunthorpe School is one of the most successful academically in the country, and Debbie Clinton believes that the leadership and ethos of a school make more of a difference than resources.

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