We can find similar examples in writings of "scientists".
"The investigation and firing of gay and lesbian federal employees was like shooting fish in a barrel for the General Counsels and legal staff of the Civil Service Commission," says Francis. "The animus, almost sports-like in their writings, is documented in decades of legal advisory files we discovered this year at the National Archives".
Others in jihad – immersing themselves in the writings of the likes of Sayyid Qutb, Abul A'la Maududi and Ayatollah Khomeini – the godfathers of the Islamic movement.
There is ample support in the Bible and in the writings of Christian thinkers like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas for this pointedly anthropocentric way of devaluing animals.
In the history of logic and philosophy, its significance is reflected in the writings of figures like Locke, Whately, and Mill.
The republican model's sources can be found in the writings of authors like Aristotle, Tacitus, Cicero, Machiavelli, Harrington and Rousseau, and in distinct historical experiences: from Athenian democracy and Republican Rome to the Italian city-states and workers' councils.
There is no word for race in the original language of the Bible, or in the writings of the ancients, like Herodotus, the Greek historian, anthropologists say.
Like the writings of other dissidents, his articles mainly reached Cuban expatriate communities.
Laughs are always erupting, like bubbles from the depths of tar pits, in the writings of Samuel Beckett.
Historical treatment of David developed in the writings of later Scottish historians, and the writings of men like John Mair, George Buchanan, Hector Boece, and Bishop John Leslie ensured that by the 18th century a picture of David as a pious, justice-loving state-builder and vigorous maintainer of Scottish independence had emerged.
