Here is Gertrude Jekyll in a highly influential passage on growing climbing roses into trees: For spaces between garden and wild, for sloping banks, for broken ground, as of an old gravel pit or other excavation, for all sorts of odds and ends of unclassified places about the home grounds, the rambling and free-growing roses seem to be offered us by a specially benevolent horticultural providence.
In an influential passage containing echoes of Siger of Brabant, a passage to which Anneliese Maier first drew attention (Scriptum I, d. 36: Maier 1949; Marchia 2000), Marchia explains that there are two types of contingency in the world: first, there is contingency per se, simpliciter, positiva, and intrinseca.
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He was influential in the passage of the Compromise of 1850 (which tried to maintain a congressional balance between free and slave states), and the organization of the Utah and New Mexico territories under popular sovereignty was a victory for his doctrine.
The purpose here is to focus on philosophical arguments, and among those, to emphasize the most influential and noteworthy passages.
With Lincoln's consent and a note of safe passage, an influential conservative Republican, Preston Blair, went through the lines to the Confederate capital at Richmond, Va.
David Graham Phillips's series "The Treason of the Senate" (Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired President Roosevelt's speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, providing for popular senatorial elections.
And by securing the backing of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the influential Utah Republican, backers predicted swift passage by both houses of Congress.
While Fernandez successfully stood up to the Catholic Church leading up to the bill's passage, the church remains highly influential in the region and is capable of providing much support to equal marriage opponents.
In that post Emanuel was influential in shaping policy, and he helped secure passage of such legislation as the $787 billion stimulus and health care reform.
In an influential essay, titled "Objectification," Nussbaum builds on a passage written by Sunstein, in which he suggests that some forms of sexual objectification can be both ineradicable and wonderful.
