Choson means "fresh dawn," and the dynasty perceived itself as a broom sweeping the country clean of tired old ways, which in its early phase it did.
The little incident involving Thoma was hardly more than a blip on the national radar, but it is perhaps the one event that best illustrates the attack dog mentality of the Palin administration when it perceived itself as being under fire, which was basically all the time.
It perceives itself as Harvard -- that is, that it provides a liberal education.
They also shed light on ways the reawakened nation is choosing to perceive itself as it flexes its muscles anew.
"The court," Professor Whiting of Harvard said, "doesn't perceive itself as targeting Africans, but vindicating African victims.
As a result, Turkey's famously rational urban electorate, including the Sunnis, has come to perceive itself as the target of a "lifestyle intervention".
Though he says he does not anticipate a war with Russia "it is important that Russia [does] not perceive itself as the undisputed preeminent land power of Central and Eastern Europe".
"What I do see is an attempt to separate America from its history of perceiving itself as a nation under God".
But the issues seem to relate as much to the way Ireland would like to perceive itself as to the fortunes of the 75 million people in the applicant countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta.
As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle.
This has been especially notable since the ''Quiet Revolution'' of the 1960s, when Quebec's Francophone community came to perceive itself as a Québécois majority, and its leaders built a modern secular state to enhance their social, cultural, demographic, political, and economic power.
