Inscribed with requests for divine blessings, these vicious examples of popular art were left in Shinto shrines, a practice that continues today.
What Mr. Paskaljevic (PASS-kal-YAY-vic), now an expatriate, doesn't need to stress is that Serbia and Ireland (where he made his 2001 parable about intolerance, "How Harry Became a Tree," and will be remaking his 1980 black comedy, "Special Treatment") experienced some of the 20th century's more vicious examples of internecine warfare, ancient resentments and cultivated hatred.
The most vicious example was a sustained racist and homophobic campaign by Tottenham fans against Portsmouth player Sol Campbell – a full year after the laws came into force.
The reason Lewis concludes his book in 1215 is that that was the year in which Pope Innocent III launched the Albigensian Crusade, an especially vicious example of the religious fanaticism that, in Lewis's view, Europe developed in reaction to the Muslims, and inflicted on a bleeding world for many centuries thereafter.
It's a small (though vicious) example of a larger trend: the administrative process is given increasingly extraordinary power, including the power to destroy innocent lives.
He is vicious, for example, in his mockery of petit bourgeois values, which, naturally, include attitudes toward sex.
As it turns out, on many three-valued theories, truth does in fact behave like a classical concept when there's no vicious reference: for example, the least fixed point of a natural variant of the supervaluation scheme always assigns T a classical interpretation in the absence of vicious reference.
If an infectious focus becomes clinically evident, it will usually be too late to prevent the beginning of the septic vicious circle (for example, by initiating specific therapies such as antibiotics or surgical interventions) [ 4].
There are plausible examples of vicious infinite regresses that do not generate explanations: for instance, imagine that I explain my possession of a book by reporting that I got it from A who got it from B, and so on to infinity.
However, the recent surge online of puppy and dog related memes and videos is a heartening sign that the tide may be turning on the most vicious and long practiced example of intentional self infestation by a host of a vicious parasite.
Example countries: Vicious cycle (low globalization, high mortality): Since the 1980s, Ghana has implemented the macro-economic policies prescriptions and Structural Adjustment Programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI), but with limited success.
