In the early 1990s, as calls for Indigenous self-determination gained steam on the heels of widespread protest and the Oka crisis, the Liberals appeared to embrace the movement's demand.
"Participation" kept them subordinate, for this was always considered to be granted at the behest of the managers still fully in control (compared with the more constitutional involvement of certain professionals, such as doctors in hospitals, or even of certain European workers who, under "co-determination," gained legal representation on boards of directors).
Emerging ideas of the individual's natural rights (as espoused by the philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and further evidenced by the Declaration of Independence of the United States) and those of nations' rights (particularly regarding independence and self-determination) gained prominence.
By contrast, with much less fanfare but no less determination, women gained admission to Columbia's graduate and professional schools at a steady rate throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In recent years, the flow injection methodology of analytical determinations has gained already many technical modifications using electrochemical methods.
In his determination to gain control and protect the Party, Xi may have generated a different kind of threat: he has pried apart internal fault lines and shaken the equilibrium that for a generation marked the nation's rise.
The story of religious conversion experienced by 14-year-old John Grimes of Harlem, Go Tell It on the Mountain places in creative tension its hero's spiritual awakening and his determination to gain his independence from his oppressive stepfather.
Born in 1905 in Los Angeles, Wong's father was a Chinese laundryman whose desire for his daughter to get married and settle down was eclipsed by her determination to gain fame and fortune as an actress.
Yet Xi's determination to gain a first mover advantage in Iran at a time that Saudi Arabia is seeking to increase rather than reduce the Islamic republic's international isolation suggests that more than commerce is at play here.
I had the privilege of chatting with Mississippi native, Samuel Jones, about his admiration for Capote's story and his determination to gain the author's permission for an operatic version.
Our determination to gain understanding in these studies and to apply what we find has, we believe, a strong moral foundation.
