They could be warriors; intellectual weapons invented for the religious conflicts of the age were powerful tools of learning.
In China and Japan, however, missionaries saw themselves forced into an argument with indigenous religions that could be carried on only with intellectual weapons.
Later that day, at home in my Austin office, I scanned the books on my shelves and, for the first time in my life, considered them not as intellectual weapons but, thanks to Susan, literal weapons.
African and African-descended intellectuals involved in and otherwise supporting anti-colonial liberation struggles and post-colonial efforts to rehabilitate and further development new African nation-states found in these raging debates intellectual weapons with which to reclaim, reconstruct, and redefine the histories, personhood, peoplehood, needs, and future possibilities of African peoples.
Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Motorola Mobility (or Google, after that patent-inspired acquisition is complete) are the heavyweights in the fray, seeking an edge in the fast-growing smartphone market, using intellectual property as a weapon.
They became excited about discovering ever more advanced concepts, having realized each new fact was another weapon in their intellectual arsenal.
We know what to do about questions of intellectual property, global trade, hazardous weapons and climate change, but we fail to implement it.
PMI documents obtained by the Observer show that the tobacco giant intended to use intellectual property rights as a major weapon in its campaign against plain packaging.
From the beginning these women are engaged in a high-stakes war of wills, as well as ideologies, in which Cathy will use every weapon in her arsenal — intellectual, emotional and sexual — to acquire her freedom.
Now a small Mountain View, Calif.-based upstart, Aurigin Systems, wants to help corporations leverage their intellectual property as a strategic business weapon.
