Sentence examples for peculiar relation from inspiring English sources

It cannot be denied that the preliminary work had peculiar relation to the district.

They have come to hold such a peculiar relation to the public that this is superimposed upon them.

The Assyrians were threatening the land of Israel and the people of the Covenant acted as though they were oblivious to the stipulations of their peculiar relation to Yahweh.

In the course of her research, Malcolm explores Stein and Toklas's peculiar relation to their Jewishness during the war and delves into their friendship with a French anti-Semite and collaborator who protected them.

And in Wolff Co. v. Industrial Court, 262 U.S. 522, 535, it was recognized that a business, [p456] although not public at its inception, might become clothed with a public interest justifying some government regulation, by coming "to hold such a peculiar relation to the public that this is superimposed" upon it.

Jerome Schneewind, a longtime friend and professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, said Rorty "lived in a peculiar relation to philosophy". "He was a major figure in challenging the accepted pieties of analytic philosophy and the accepted pieties of so-called continental philosophy," Schneewind said.

Where am I going to go?" Answers never come in "The Caretaker," Harold Pinter's classic 1960 play about the peculiar relations among a tramp and two brothers in a cluttered room in a dilapidated London house.

(Isherwood) ★ 'The Caretaker' (closes on Sunday) Jonathan Pryce is a scabrously funny Davies in Christopher Morahan's first-rate production of this 1960 Harold Pinter classic, about the peculiar relations among a tramp and two odd brothers.

(Laurel Graeber) ★ 'The Caretaker' Jonathan Pryce is a scabrously funny Davies in Christopher Morahan's first-rate production of this 1960 Harold Pinter classic, about the peculiar relations among a tramp and two odd brothers.

With respect to the two distinct races whose peculiar relations to each other have brought upon us the deplorable complications and perplexities which exist in those States, it must be a government which guards the interests of both races carefully and equally.

This kind of coverage, he said, demonstrates the peculiar relations between the media and terrorists.