It stressed the emotional and spiritual nature of the child, encouraging self-understanding through play activities and greater freedom, rather than the imposition of adult ideas.
"It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology," he said in Ohio, referring to what he called the president's imposition of his ideas on churches.
In making this point, of course, Ms. Yeazell is well within the mainstream of much academic research, demonstrating how a non-Western culture or concept has been molded by the imposition of Western ideas.
Of course, I know it's much more than that, and the audience for The Archers - whose average age must be getting on for three-score-years-and-ten - regard it as an institution, and are resistant to the imposition of new ideas.
Suggestions that requiring a female presence in a future government amounted to the inappropriate imposition of western ideas neglected to take account of the fact that Afghan women previously had the vote, were elected to office and took a wide range of employment, she said.
No donor agendas, no imposition of external ideas.
Moreover, as Mannell describes in her research on gender mainstreaming efforts within HIV-prevention [ 37, 46], notions of gender equality as envisaged by funding organizations may be viewed as a neo-colonial imposition of Western ideas.
Still, history shows that the forceful imposition of even decent ideas in the claim of universalism tends to backfire -- creating not converts but enemies who will do anything to defend their blood and soil.
They accepted the essentially Ionian doctrines that the world is composed of opposites (wet-dry, hot-cold, and so on) and generated from something unlimited; but they added the idea of the imposition of limit upon the unlimited and the sense of a musical harmony in the universe.
Another much-debated idea is the imposition of border entry fees, which would be used to hire new border inspectors and build new ports.
