It is his interpretation of Stoic philosophy, focusing on accepting things out of your control and maintaining mastery over your emotions.
For if, as Chomsky maintains, mastery of language involves knowledge of rules stated in terms of sentences' syntactic properties, and if those properties are not so to speak 'present' in the data, but are rather highly abstract and 'unobservable,' then it becomes hard to see how children could possibly acquire knowledge of the rules concerning them.
In my research, I have discovered that throughout history, many dominant groups have depicted or represented minority groups in a variety of negative ways in order to maintain control or mastery.
As the banking crisis intensifies, he seems set to maintain that mastery.
But the same sort of long-term forbearance will likely be required of the public if the terrorists maintain their mastery of the element of surprise.
If the Braves maintain their mastery over the Mets next season, the extra games they play could make a huge difference in the distance between them, given that everything else is equal.
It is an enigma manipulated and maintained with mastery.
MARINERS 6, ORIOLES 2: Mark McLemore and Ruben Sierra homered in the fifth and Seattle maintained its mastery of Baltimore at home.
BRUINS 5, CANADIENS 3: Brian Rolston scored to break a third-period tie, and Byron Dafoe maintained his mastery of Montreal as Boston beat the visiting Canadiens.
In between, Tiger Woods, Mark O'Meara and John Daly maintained their mastery of the Old Course at St . Andrews Scotland, yesterday to set up a battle of unbeatens in the Dunhill Cup.
