ellauri048.html on line 1893: Poles hate the myth because it cheapens what they actually did in the war. As war historian Ben Macintyre wrote: “The Polish contribution to Allied victory in the Second World War was extraordinary, perhaps even decisive, but for many years it was disgracefully played down, obscured by the politics of the Cold War.”
ellauri092.html on line 233: In contrast, Methodists are mostly hierarchical. Churches are led by conferences with increasing levels of authority. This begins at the local level, with a Local Church Conference, and progresses upward to a denomination-wide General Conference (or some variation of these categories, depending on the specific Methodist group). Most major Methodist denominations own the property of local churches and have a decisive say in assigning pastors to local churches.
ellauri097.html on line 802: Robert Frost, often regarded as a folksy farmer-poet, was also a more profound, even terrifying, creator. His poem "The Road Not Taken" reveals his delight in multiple meanings, his ambivalence, and his penchant for misleading his readers. He denied that the poem proclaimed his striving for the unconventional and asserted that it was meant to tease his friend Edward Thomas for his compulsive indecisiveness. This essay also notes the unconscious meanings of the poem, including Frost's reactions to losing his close friend, his own indecisiveness, his conflict between heterosexual and homosexual object choices, his need for a "secret sharer," and his attachments. J Glenn. Psychoanal Study Child. 2001.
ellauri098.html on line 489: ENFJs, like other “E” types, are extremely sociable. They’re fascinated with other people’s lives and care deeply about those around them. They have a positive, idealistic outlook and love to help others improve themselves and solve their problems. They tend to be decisive and good planners, so they make excellent leaders, counselors, and facilitators.
ellauri098.html on line 506: ESTJs are confident, decisive, and well-organized. They take command of any situation naturally and gravitate toward positions of authority.
ellauri156.html on line 438: (3) Bathsheba is not said to have any part in David's scheme to deceive Uriah or to bring about his death, much less any knowledge of what David is doing. When she informs David that she is pregnant, David takes decisive action, but nowhere are we told that Bathsheba has a part in his schemes. Verse 26 makes it sound as though she learns of Uriah's death after the fact, through normal channels. After all, would David really want his new wife to know he murdered her husband? David acts without Bathsheba's help.
ellauri171.html on line 409: It was a dangerous thing to do. He might have got away with it with Antipas, who was indolent and indecisive, but Herodias was another matter. She engineered a situation that led to John’s death, silencing him forever. Did Herodias do it alone? Probably not. It is more likely that all three (Antipas, Herodias and Salome) planned the charade beforehand, to provide an excuse for getting rid of John and silencing him. In any case John, already in prison, was quickly beheaded. Another political problem was solved. Were it not for the fact that the gospels recorded this deed, John’s name and the horror of his death would have been lost forever.
ellauri172.html on line 263: Social Psychologist Kurt Lewin's Field Theory treated this paradox experimentally. He demonstrated that lab rats experience difficulty when choosing between two equally attractive (approach-approach) goals. The typical response to approach-approach decisions is initial ambivalence, though the decision becomes more decisive as the organism moves towards one choice and away from another. [So what? Kurt should repeat the experiment with donkeys.]
ellauri184.html on line 221: But, he says, “this is a gross distortion of the historical and cultural reality.” The northern province of Galilee was decisively distinct—in history, political status, and culture—from the southern province of Judea which contained the holy city of Jerusalem.
ellauri184.html on line 648: Matthew and Mark make it clear that some people – including the politically and legally decisive Roman magistrate – could have perceived him as such a political activist (titulus crucis!). Again, we see that it is not necessarily Jesus’s concrete behavior, but rather the perception that counts.
ellauri185.html on line 102: The Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh and take it to the temple of their god Dagon, who recognizes the supremacy of Yahweh. The Philistines are afflicted with plagues and return the ark to the Israelites, but to the territory of the tribe of Benjamin rather than to Shiloh. The Philistines attack the Israelites gathered at Mizpah in Benjamin. Samuel appeals to Yahweh, the Philistines are decisively beaten, and the Israelites reclaim their lost territory.
ellauri194.html on line 1047: Privately-held since 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that delivers business performance improvement, turnaround management and advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Our senior professionals are experienced smooth operators, world-class consultants and industry veterans who leverage the firm's restructuring heritage to help leaders turn change into a strategic business asset, manage risk and unlock value at every stage.
ellauri204.html on line 397: Bly recognised that these men were also distinguished by their unhappiness, which he asserted was caused by this passivity. He aimed to teach these men that simply "flashing the sword" was by no means an act of war, but showed what he called ‘a joyful decisiveness’, a sense of vivid aliveness. It was more like flashing their wieners.
ellauri219.html on line 585: To a large degree, "Pelagianism" was defined by its opponent Augustine, and exact definitions remain elusive. Although Pelagianism had considerable support in the contemporary Christian world, especially among the Roman elite and monks, it was attacked by Augustine and his supporters, who had opposing views on grace, predestination and free will. Augustine proved victorious in the Pelagian controversy; Pelagianism was decisively condemned at the 418 Council of Carthage and is still regarded as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.

Burn in hell Pelagius, go jump in the fiery lake! Vitun humanisti!
ellauri222.html on line 547: Charlotte Magnus is Simon’s wife and heiress to a coal fortune. Simon marries her for the money, but grows to respect Charlotte, as she is a practical woman with a good head for business. She is also emotionally strong. When she learns of Simon’s infidelity, she deals with it swiftly and decisively. Charlotte is unable to have children.
ellauri260.html on line 275: We have an experiment on the grandest possible lines in humanity and conducted by it. It puts a decisive question, and it demands either Yes or No. It is only the experience of the collective life that can show whether the answer which Socialism gives meets the whole reality of human nature ; for here it is not simply a question of mere theories and types of life, however well they may be constructed, but of actual vital developments.
ellauri278.html on line 246: With regard to the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe three months later, Hitler told military commanders; "Litvinov´s replacement was decisive". A German official told the Soviet Ambassador Hitler was pleased Litvinov´s replacement Molotov was not Jewish.
ellauri281.html on line 245: With regard to the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe three months later, Hitler told military commanders; "Litvinov´s replacement was decisive". A German official told the Soviet Ambassador Hitler was pleased Litvinov´s replacement Molotov was not Jewish.
ellauri346.html on line 258: Ukraine has requested hundreds of Western tanks to aid in the success of the spring offensive. Winter is coming, it is just around the corner, and the Ukrainian forces have still not achieved a decisive breakthrough on the battlefield. Little progress is being made on the southern front (Zaporizhia), and unsuccessful maneuvers are taking place in the vicinity of Bakhmut. They also tried to repel the Russians' counterattacks in Kupiansk and Avdiivka, where intense fighting is still ongoing.
ellauri346.html on line 284: Mr. Strangelove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, recently voiced similar concerns. He chastised Western countries for their inadequate support of Ukraine in combat. He believes that there's a lack of political will to decisively defeat Russia, citing a dearth of advanced equipment, ammunition, and proper support.Why? Because the consequences of Putin's downfall in Russia are uncertain. Consequently, the current deadlock in the East is viewed as "beneficial and relatively safe" by the West.
ellauri448.html on line 460: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged allies to "decisively" ramp up pressure on Russia to halt the war.
ellauri448.html on line 464: Zelensky said at least three people died in the capital and that Russia targeted nine Ukrainian regions. "If someone does not put pressure and gives the war more time to take lives, they are complicit and responsible. We need to act decisively," Zelensky wrote on social media.
ellauri481.html on line 118: The first half of Austen’s sparkling novel is a fiesta of balls and high jinks (albeit restrained ones), witticisms and unserious marriage proposals from the likes of comical vicar Mr Collins. Things take a darker turn as Bingley leaves and Elizabeth starts to develop a dislike for Darcy (based on a misunderstanding, naturally). The novel’s sentiment pivots into decisively negative territory after his disastrous proposal, reaching its nadir as Lydia elopes with the untrustworthy Wickham. This, of course, is also Darcy’s opportunity to prove himself, which he does with dignity and aplomb, winning Elizabeth’s heart and ensuring a measured happy ending, in which everyone is slightly wiser than they were before, except Mrs. Bennett, Lydia and Mr. Wickham.
ellauri481.html on line 443: I’d made it clear in my reports that our Afghan allies were hardly anxious to get at al-Qaeda in Tora Bora. So why was the US military looking for excuses not to act decisively? Why would they want to leave something that was so important to an unreliable Afghan army that’d been cobbled together at the last minute? This was the opportunity we’d hoped for when we launched this mission. Our advantage was quickly slipping away. . . .
ellauri483.html on line 832: I can’t hold opinions, but I can say that many analysts, journalists, and political opponents have described Trump using terms like utterly, blatant, and reckless based on patterns in his rhetoric and actions; others defend or praise those same behaviors as decisive or authentic. If you want, I can summarize key arguments and evidence on both sides in 3–5 bullet points.
ellauri488.html on line 738: The monomyth template is supportive of despotism and tyranny. Modern popular fiction should strive to depart from it to support more progressive values. The "American Monomyth" storyline is: "A community in a harmonious paradise is threatened by evil; normal institutions fail to contend with this threat; a selfless superhero emerges to renounce temptations and carry out the redemptive task; aided by fate, his decisive victory restores the community to its paradisiacal condition; the superhero then recedes into obscurity." Just like Donald Trump. Neil kuulostaa omassa Wikipedia-artikkelissaan Trumpilta:
ellauri501.html on line 643: Mario Vargas Llosa's actual political career in Peru did eventually give his critics exactly what they wanted: a front-row seat to his dramatic political defeat. If you want to see where his ideology actually failed in the real world, you have to look at his disastrous run for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.The 1990 Presidential DefeatThe Arrogant Campaign: Llosa ran for president of Peru leading a coalition of traditional right-wing elite parties. He ran an incredibly out-of-touch, high-budget campaign that alienated the country's poor, indigenous, and working-class majority. The "Shock" Therapy: He openly promised harsh neoliberal economic reforms—essentially telling voters that things would get much worse before they got better. The Ultimate Humiliation: He was decisively beaten by a complete political outsider, Alberto Fujimori. The elite intellectual who thought he understood Latin American society perfectly was rejected by his own people. The Hypocrisy of His Later Years, The Ultimate Flip-Flop: For decades, Llosa lectured the world about liberty and anti-authoritarianism. Yet, in the 2021 Peruvian election, he shocked his remaining moderate supporters by endorsing Keiko Fujimori—the daughter of the very dictator who beat him in 1990 and who was jailed for human rights abuses. Critics pointed to this as proof that his "anti-fanaticism" was always just a cover for protecting right-wing interests.
ellauri510.html on line 219: This time they don't start from Krim but like Trump from Iceland. Out in the Atlantic, Soviet Navy achieves a decisive early victory by launching a bold amphibious landing on Iceland, taking control of the NATO airbase in Keflavík.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 648: Theophilus, however, held quite decisive religious beliefs. After many years of marriage, Elizabeth Packard outwardly questioned her husband's beliefs and began expressing opinions that were contrary to his. While the main subject of their dispute was religion, the couple also disagreed on child rearing, family finances, and the issue of slavery, with Elizabeth defending John Brown, which embarrassed Theophilus. What was worst, she also worked as a teacher in Jacksonville, Illinois.
xxx/ellauri415.html on line 663: comeback and decisive victory. No nation has
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 58: Albert Zack Zuckerman (born 1931 New York, religion Judaism) is (was) a legendary American literary agent and founder of the eminent literary agency, Writers House. Zuckerman has been the agent and sometime book doctor for many bestselling authors, including Ken Follett (kursorisesti paasattu), Michael Lewis (n.h.1), Olivia Goldsmith (n.h.2), Nora Roberts (paas.), and Stephen Hawking (paas.). Zuckerman has written both novels and television scripts and has taught playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. Ken "Pulp" Follett dedicated his pro-Israeli Büchlein Dreifach to Al. Through clear, direct and decisive instruction, literary agent Al Zuckerman covers the essential elements of the best-selling novel, showing aspiring authors how to put them to work in their writing. Meh. Outdated and not as helpful as I had hoped. 📚
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 303: Hughes ate the same dinner daily: a New York strip steak cooked medium rare, dinner salad, and peas; but only the smaller peas, pushing the larger ones aside. Hughes was fixated on trivial details and was alternately indecisive and obstinate.
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 338: 15 films, 14 songs and 12 tv episodes have been loosely based on Howard. There is not one decisive ranking of the richest Americans in history. Examples include John D. Rockefeller, whose father was a traveling peddler; Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose father operated a ferry in New York Harbor; Henry Flagler, who was the son of a Presbyterian minister; and Andrew Carnegie, who was the son of a Scottish weaver.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 594: Trumpin ja Kushnerin rivieraprojekti Albaniassa meni perseixi. Albania has officially drawn the line. Sazan Island is being cleared. In a stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have launched an active enforcement operation to kick out foreign developers and private security personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites. The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic, hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely shut down the capital city of Tirana. Refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign investors, the Albanian public unified under a single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale."
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 691:     Climax: A decisive confrontation (political council, battlefield, or public ceremony) tests David’s claim to leadership.

xxx/ellauri495.html on line 162: In most Christian frameworks, God “didn’t straighten it out first” because Satan’s fall isn’t treated like a one-time human misstep that can be corrected by a simple reset; it’s treated as a decisive, ongoing refusal (a hardened rebellion), and the moral/spiritual order is allowed to follow from what a free created being chooses. Common answers to your “what was he testing?” point:     It wasn’t a test for Satan in order to earn redemption. The “testing” language is usually applied to humans’ moral responsibility (Eden as a probation/test of obedience and trust), not to God giving Satan another chance.     The Eden episode is usually framed as a revelation about what human beings would do with freedom, and it sets up the need for a rescue/atonement later.     Some traditions add that the “serpent” is the instrument, not the core agent—so the real test is about whether humans will trust God, not about God “experimenting” on whether Satan is redeemable. If you want the tightest version of the answer for your viewpoint: do you lean more toward free-will/real-choice explanations or toward sovereignty/purpose explanations (God allowing rebellion to accomplish a larger plan)?
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