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From this starting point, Yoder relativizes all later developments in Christian theology, including the major ecumenical creeds.

The first sentence is translated, the next two are not, precisely because they relativize the numerical fraud which is actually carried out by a large segment of the population seeking to pass as white.

The author suspects that the West German Government wanted to relativize the special status of the Jews as a persecuted group.

The gypsies were useful to those who wished to relativize the Holocaust and to extend the category of victims of Nazism, or to promote an understanding of the Germans too as victims of the Second World War.

The quest for spiritual transcendence, beyond critique, may provide the experience from which to relativize a relativistic age.

During the 1980s, he strongly opposed "what he saw as an attempt to 'sanitize' German identity and relativize the Holocaust," Muller says.

These are not questions for questions' sake or to relativize the faith, trot they are questions that, in Chittister's language, propel us along.

Indeed, turning to the plot of the Venus/Adonis story, Cherchi writes that Canto 20 serves to relativize this supposedly pivotal story, "[...] a farne soltanto una storia fra le tante"(16).

I am sympathetic to the problem enunciated by Professors Glenn and Stack, viz., "that contemporary American democracy, by constitutionally privileging secularism, offers Catholics in public life a strong inducement to abandon, relativize, or remain silent about, their moral beliefs, insofar as these conflict with secularism.

That renewed interest in Troeltsch should be such an international phenomenon points to the relevance of the absolute as the goal of history, at least as a counter to relativize the cultural-linguistic idols of post-liberalism.

It appears then that the best we could do to approach objectivity would be to relativize explicitly ascriptions of value-relevant properties to standards operative at a time, recognizing that new relevant standards will likely emerge in the future.

We do not want to believe that this was a conscious decision of M.r Lavrov and the Russian Federation that he finds himself on the same list with the people who have been found guilty of war crimes before the international tribunals and to relativize their crimes in such manner, but the victims have understood this gesture exactly like this and the Islamic Community in BiH considers it a moral obligation to warn about it, it is said in the statement.

The authors further face challenges with an uneven depth and accuracy of information for various periods and locations and at times appear to relativize external factors and underestimate other noneconomic conditions, particularly religious conviction and interreligious permeability.