In 1536, he was arrested, tried for heresy and strangled and burnt at the stake.
And, being a contrarian and a dramatist, Mr. Mamet doubtless relishes the attention for his heresy.
In Western Europe, the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were a high tide of heresy.
After all, eliminating any tax breaks is heresy in some precincts of the GOP.
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But for industry pros, all the talk about 4K being UltraHD, and vice-versa is heresy.
His thesis has since become conventional wisdom, but in the civil-rights era it was the purest heresy.
Earlier this year he pushed through a transportation plan that included tax increases, considered heresy among fiscal conservatives.
The tortures inflicted on victims of the Holy Inquisition for heresy from the Middle Ages onwards are legendary.
Calling style investing with index funds as active management may sound like heresy to some in the index community.
Now, in what seems like heresy in oil-land, some analysts are talking about a possibility of a dividend cut.
He wasn't surprised--what he was asking of the union would have amounted to heresy just a few years ago.
Here's some heresy: Could winning a battle against the plaintiff's bar actually hurt pharmaceutical companies over the long haul?
Even the previous heresy, that economic growth has limits, is on the table.
Legend has it that he quite literally rose to prominence during a synod called to decide a case of heresy.
He asks forgiveness for his sins of infidelity and heresy, but without sacrificing his zeal for causes of the right.
The Presbyterians accused him of heresy and revoked his license, but the Congregationalists refused to ordain him as a minister.
That permission would not make them a religious order, but it would give them some protection from the charge of heresy.
This would have been heresy at the old HP, which had no big layoffs for all six decades of its existence.
This was heresy, at a time when customers were paying billions of dollars for complex installations of software that required constant configuring.
"The combination seemed like heresy, like mixing oil and water, " Turley said.
At the same time as he published this heresy, Mr Gould was making his name as a writer of popular scientific essays.
Unfortunately, talk here of higher petrol taxes is generally regarded as heresy.
Such talk is practically heresy in a part of the world that's earned its fame and fortune from computers and the world wide web.
Resisting the Albigensian heresy which held that poverty is morally obligatory and that private property is immoral, the Franciscans stayed within orthodox Church teaching.
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Burned at the stake for heresy, Joan is posthumously rehabilitated by the Catholic Church a generation later, and in 1920 she is made a saint.
Some may call it heresy, but any methodology subject to so much variation, imprecision and even manipulation should not form the basis for equity valuations.
Rashkin, director of tax for Marvell (nasdaq: MRVL - news - people ), commits a Silicon Valley heresy and says that it's not.
Accused of heresy by the Inquisition while visiting the Royal Court in Madrid, the machine, fashionably dressed in silk pantaloons, spent several months in a Spanish prison.
Words like that coming from a journalist border on heresy.
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