One might argue that, although law-enforcement agencies should be protected from the forces of electoral and party politics, they are, by definition, political: they insure the observance of laws that result from the political process.
In his remark about the university, Mr. Judt ignored the tremendous diversity of political opinion and religious observance at Bar-Ilan, Israel's fastest-growing and largest university, with an academic community of 33,000 students.
The simple formula questions the limits of religious observance and political mandates, examining the imprint they leave on one's personal identity. .
Nor do they acknowledge that despite no apparent increase in religious observance, a growth in Christian political activity has been observed in western Europe for more than a decade.
"Modernization, rationalization, economic reform, political relaxation and the proper observance of the Soviet Constitution would follow.
In a multiple linear regression analysis, 9 of the 14 types of participation were independently associated with distress, 3 of them with less distress (in the order: neighbours, adult learning, and friends) and 6 with greater distress (activism, extended family, immediate household, political protest, workmates, and religious observance).
To associate this "observance" with terrorism and political violence is unfair.
Other factors may have included the rise of bourgeois individualism following the French Revolution of 1789, the decline of Roman Catholic observance (especially among the political left), and the lack of economic opportunity in the interwar years.
"Eleanor Roosevelt's observance that every woman in political life must 'develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide' had become a mantra for me as I faced one crisis after another".
"China's government characterised Uighur discontent, peaceful political activism, and some forms of religious observance as terrorist activity," it added.
