One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity.
In The Knox Brothers, her group biography of her eccentric father and uncles, Penelope Fitzgerald describes "the patient, self-contained, self-imposed pursuit of an entirely personal solution" as the "characteristically English" way to approach a problem.
It acknowledges the constraints morality imposes on the pursuit of our individual and collective goals.
The transitional government is perceived to have been imposed from outside, and the pursuit of all-out war will leave no room for dialogue with al-Shabaab.
Rouhani urged the United States and its allies to negotiate with Iran to resolve differences over its nuclear program, rather than maintaining the crippling sanctions imposed for Tehran's alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Internally generated stress is imposed by us on ourselves in pursuit of a highly desirable and attainable outcome.
It said editorial independence should be respected by states and inter-governmental organizations and that specific obligations should not be imposed on media outlets in the pursuit of counter-terrorism.
Citing Syrian meddling in Iraq and Lebanon and accusing it of sponsoring terrorism here and there, the Americans imposed sanctions, withdrew their ambassador, threatened "hot pursuit" of alleged terrorists who sought sanctuary on Syrian soil, and began funding Syria's exiled opposition.
PAGE A23 PAUL KRUGMAN President Obama's pursuit of bipartisanship, and the cuts imposed by "centrists," have led to an inadequate, insufficiently effective stimulus bill.
8.26pm BST James Ball, the Guardian's data editor, writes that "the Obama administration didn't merely go through the motions" in pursuit of Bradley Manning; military authorities "imposed a charge that should have sparked far greater alarm than it did".
In it, Pufendorf presents a moral anthropology suggesting what kinds of moral entities, or what obligations and laws, should be imposed in view of "the natural inclinations and pursuits of us mortals".
