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Brown was brought to Kansas by his sons, who had learned their father's creed by heart.

When Sidney Blumenthal expresses the Clinton creed by telling George Packer of The New Yorker, "It's not a question of transcending partisanship.

One of the first to preach progressive revelation, which allowed for continuing revision and renewal of doctrinal beliefs, Hicks in 1817 successfully opposed the adoption of a set creed by the Society of Friends at the Baltimore, Maryland, yearly meeting.

Dr. King's dream speech, from patriotic and spiritual ground, appealed unreservedly for the nation to "rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed" by passing a civil rights bill to end segregation.

(Paradoxically, Khomeini helped Sunnify Shiism by assuming the role of autocrat and empire-seeker, while helping Sunnis to Shiify their creed by glorifying martyrdom — a tactic since adopted by the Sunni brain trust of Hamas and Islamic Jihad).

Lewis also renovated his Vorticist creed by publishing a revised edition of Tarr, in 1928, and collecting his early Breton sketches and essays, in much-altered form, as The Wild Body (1927).

Most notable among the structural necessities was the formulation of "confessions," or creeds, by which the Reformers could define their positions for the benefit of both their adherents and their opponents.

For one thing, the radicals on all sides felt themselves constantly repelled by the creed adopted by the Council of Chalcedon to defend the biblical doctrine of the nature of Christ and bridge the gap between the dogmatic parties.

The creed promulgated by "The Secret" and "The Power" is finally noteworthy not for its audacity — many religions promise more — but for its modesty, its thinness.

The latter trend began in 1993, after Michael Howard, then home secretary in the previous Conservative government, declared that "prison works", a creed retained by his Labour successors.

The landlords and corporate interests that dominate Broadway are concerned with money to get power and with power to protect the money, a creed epitomized by the Medici.