It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80percentt of the population was effectively bound to the land.
Deterrence worked well (well, worked) in the Cartesian clockwork universe of the Cold War, with its two balanced superpowers, each armed to the teeth, each with something to lose, one "good" and one "evil" but both essentially rational, both philosophically rooted in the Enlightenment, and both professing dedication to a vision of a secular democratic commonwealth.
In the mission statement of Hyundai Asan, the complex's founding force, the company professes a dedication to "coexistence and co-prosperity of North and South Korea".
The umbrella website for this venture is labeled "The Free Gaza Movement," and on it the "Free Gaza Team" of the "Freedom Flotilla Coalition" professes a dedication to nonviolence and respect for universal human rights.
Why is it that those who spend an inordinate amount of time professing their dedication and fealty to the United States Constitution seem to always be among the first to toss our founding document out the window the moment it becomes inconvenient to their desires?
Why is it acceptable to profess your dedication to a murder machine made of metal and not of sarin gas?
OAS and world "diplomats" can't have it both ways, professing their unshakeable dedication to constitutions and the rule of law even as they make a hero of a country's No. 1 lawbreaker and press sanctions on a government that enforces its own Constitution as its legal leaders decide, irrespective of whether foreigners approve.
Zhu professes that he admires Brenner's dedication and intends to follow his footsteps by taking up a lifelong career in scientific research and development.
Testimonials to their dedication were presented by their superiors while the soldiers unabashedly professed their feeling for their fellow troopers.
In January 1594, Napier addressed to the King a letter that forms the dedication of his Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, a work that, while it professed to be of a strictly scholarly character, was calculated to influence contemporary events.
