From Niebuhr, Mr. Obama has said, he got the message "that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain.
One evening in 2007, after leaving the Senate floor, Obama said of Niebuhr, to the Times' David Brooks: I take away the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain.
Yet when this divinity returns in the New Testament, he has a slightly different name, Beelzeboul (perhaps "lord of the princes"), and he manages a portfolio of serious evil.
The campaign appears to have the full support of President Nazarbayev, who has repeatedly called on the government and the ruling Nur Otan party to battle this "most serious evil".
The conventions describe illicit drugs as, "a serious evil for the individual and is fraught with social and economic danger to mankind" and this is a sentiment that has continued to influence modern legislation.
As for the Italians themselves, they are usually happy to enjoy a joke about their Roman ancestors - particularly when they are presented, as Astérix's adversaries are, as rather amiable bad guys, held back from serious evil by sheer inefficiency.
Nazarbayev has repeatedly called on the government and the ruling Nur Otan party to battle this "most serious evil," and there is evidence that his words have been taken to heart.
It's an equally scary portrait of the community – devout to the point that religion becomes a cover to throw over serious evil and pretend it's not happening.
David Smith, in his patent application for his two-piece clothespin, explained that the advantage of his spring clamp was that it could not "be detached from the clothes by the wind as is the case with the common pin and which is a serious evil to washerwomen".
