Manifest Destiny describes the notion that the United States was destined by God to dominate North America.
In the arts, for example, lateness can manifest in the notion of "late style," the idea that the work some artists produce toward the end of their careers reflects a conspicuous development from their earlier productions.
Let's look, then, at the failure of vision that's manifested in this notion that Barack Obama was doomed from the outset to be bested by the destructive force that was dedicated to making him fail.
In the 19th century, Professor Mearsheimer argues, the United States struggled for regional hegemony by conquering much of North America, justifying it by the notion of Manifest Destiny.
And she had no stockings' – is more than matched by the horrors that he encounters in a US in the grip of self-creation, its expansionist violence underwritten by its adherence to the notion of manifest destiny.
The exhibition traces evolving ideas about the environment – and our place within it – from colonial beliefs about natural theology and biblical dominion through the 19th-century notion of manifest destiny to the emergence of modern ecological ethics.
The two cases have in common an overt and blatant disregard for legality, an unwillingness of the central government to correct manifest injustices, and the notion that only U.S. diplomatic compounds are safe-havens in China.
Certainly the notion of Manifest Destiny (coined in the 1840s)—that such expansion was even divinely ordained played its part, as did the lure for farmers of the fertile and well-watered plain of the Willamette valley or, for prospectors, the possibility of striking it rich in the goldfields of California and elsewhere.
The author calls him "a field agent of Manifest Destiny" -- the popular notion that the United States had a mission to expand westward to the Pacific.
"[The title] 'Manifest' evokes the complicated notions of slavery as cargo or inventory and the notion that these objects are also a collection or reliquary of African-American experience and memory," White, who currently resides in New Jersey, told The Huffington Post last week.
So Turkish rural cinema is less bound up with notions of manifest destiny and the subjugation of nature, and is more a place where a deep, binding nostalgia wells up from the rocks.
