The fierce debate – at least among metropolitan elites – prompted by Wednesday's judgment demonstrates how sexual relations have become a battleground in India, often revealing cultural splits between generations, between urban and rural dwellers and between those who invoke a "traditional past" contaminated by western influences and those who stress a local history of pluralism and tolerance.
Local government reflects the pluralism of Fiji's social structure.
Local horizontal and vertical pluralism are about one type of fact or description (Lynch 1998).
(Many of the elders, however, favor more autonomy and pluralism in local elections, as we saw recently in Wukan).
Initially, this seemed to be a case of medical pluralism, with local popular "beliefs" about illness existing alongside, and conflicting with, biomedical explanations.
Our premise is that the current legal and constitutional design class actions, inhibits an indispensable legal pluralism participation and coordination in my opinion, enlighten the best application of law in both federal and local social key.
Further, by establishing a new pole of authority in an already complex institutional landscape, the establishment of CR councils complicates rather than resolves institutional pluralism at the local level.
In Beyond Fundamentalism, Reza Aslan claimed that engaged religious pluralism, especially in local settings, could eliminate religious war.
Mr Kollek's call for Arabs to get the same municipal services as Jews ("I'd love the city to be empty of Arabs, but since they are here we need to serve them"), his excellent relations with the local mukhtars and his emphasis on "pluralism" put him well to the left of most of his Jewish voters.
Although the Peace of Augsburg (1555) had addressed earlier the problem of religious pluralism, the solution potentially converted simple, and usually local, legal disputes into dynastic and religious warfare, as the Cologne War itself demonstrated.
