The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…The general consensus about the evils of male homosexuality was such that the amendment was adopted without any real debate in only four minutes. …”
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Quando as tecnologias embaralham nossas vidas: as nanotecnologias by Marcos Nalli

“…"rights", thinking in categories of good and evil, and formulating deontological rules. Nanotechnologies help to think what is the status of living beings, especially human beings, based on binomial - often misunderstood and misinterpreted - of the artificiality and nature: their interaction is characterized primarily in the human ability (that nanotechnology only radicalizes) for the transformation of their environment.…”
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On the imbalance of international communications by H. J. Hsia

“…The imbalance of communication flow, castigated, and denounced by every developing country, is considered to be the source of all evils, ranging from the failure of politico-economical policies and erosion of social norms and values to street crimes and prostitution; nevertheless, the verdict is still not yet in. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…Finally, while recognizing the enduring popularity and artistic forte of Rotimi’s magnum opus, the paper broadens spasmodically our perception of the pervasiveness and practical relevance of the practice of Ifá divination as means for rectifying evil destiny, regulating what the future holds and resolving problems of existence in Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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Tanto malvagio da essere d’esempio. I clerici anglo-normanni e la descrizione di Guglielmo II Rufo, disgraziatamente re d’Inghilterra by Fabrizio De Falco

“…They present the portrait of the evil sovereign as a comparison tool for the contemporaneity – he became an exemplum and his death emerged as “divine justice”.…”
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The value of family visits as an implementation of maintaining human dignity: a sociological perspective by Teresia Noiman Derung

“…Second, listen to each other; and third protect each other against evil. Family visits are very important and needed by society at this time, because families need to be greeted, listened to, and protect each other from crime. …”
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Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-19 by E. Shoko

“…The findings of the study reveal that neo-Pentecostal church leaders attributed the origins of SARS-COV-2 to “evil” spirits. Neo-Pentecostal church leaders had mixed messages on the possible cure for COVID-19, with some emphasising miracles as the panacea for COVID-19, and a minority believing that God exhibits his power through epidemiologists. …”
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An Analysis of the Outcomes of Language Contacts: with Specials Reference to Arabi-Malayalam by Sayed Saidalavi Cheerangote

“…Several periodicals were published in AM language to preach the basic tenets of Islam to the commoners and to make them aware of the evil practices and superstitions existed in those days. …”
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DESCARTES VE SPİNOZA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE GERÇEK İYİ KAVRAMI by Nurten Gökalp

“…‘The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.’ All good and evil is relative to our human standars. Things come to be good because we desire them. …”
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De l’utopie socialiste au réalisme chrétien by Isabelle Richet

“…Indeed, realism now meant that in politics a Christian could only choose between the lesser of two evils. From this point of view the Democratic president and his preparedness campaign appeared as the only realistic choice in the context of the rise of fascism in Europe.…”
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Zagadnienie światopoglądu w edukacji ekologicznej by Jacek W. Czartoszewski

“…There is a necessary general change of human awareness, which will strengthen love to the other people and amends an evil site between mankind. It should be joined with changing mentality reducing consumption material goods (savings in using up energies and industrial goods) and taking care of remaining for succeeding generations natural environments in better condition than that nowadays. …”
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تیسیر المرام لأدعیة خیر الکلام : کشاف موضوعى هجائى للأدعیة الواردة فى القران الکریم by د. أحمد رجب شاهین Ragab Shaheen

“…This arrangement is unuseful to achieve easy and fastaccess to an invocation on a specific subject.2- The existence of the so-called wrongdoing in invocation, which is to ask Allahwhat is not appropriate and it is not permissible to ask for it, such as helpingto commit sin, looking at the unseen, or invocation on oneself and relativeswith destruction and evil ... and others that contradict the wisdom of Allahand his law.Objectives of the study :The researcher aims to achieve the following :1- Compilation of the invocations mentioned in the Holy Quran, in order toguide the Muslims to it.2- Facilitating access to the invocations in the Holy Quran according to itstopics.3- The preparation of an alphabetical subject index as a goal in itself, as wellas being a means to achieve the two previous goals, in which theinvocations will be organized under indexing entries(subject headings)which represent it .…”
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Origen and Plato on the Superiority and Perfection of the Soul by Zhimeng Lin

“…This suggests that humans are capable of both good and evil, a potential grounded in free will rather than the sin of the body. …”
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Dysfunction of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinases in Alzheimer's Disease by William Z. Suo, Longxuan Li

“…The deficiency of GRK5, on the other hand, impairs presynaptic M2 autoreceptor desensitization, which leads to a reduced acetylcholine release, axonal/synaptic degenerative changes, and associated amnestic, mild cognitive impairment. It also promotes an evil cycle to further increase Beta-amyloid accumulation and exaggerates brain inflammation, possibly even the basal forebrain cholinergic degeneration. …”
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THEOLOGY, INSECURITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD by U.N DURUJI

“…This situation is made worst by alarming increase in the rate of moral turpitude and lack of fear of God among the youth, who have been turned into evil tools in the hands of unscrupulous agents of insecurity and terroir in Nigeria. …”
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ATTAINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE REVEALED TRUTH COMPREHENSIVELY FROM AL-ZAMAKHSHARI'S PERSPECTIVE by Jarman Arroisi, Martin Putra Perdana, Adi Ihza Baharudin

“…Al-Zamakhshari also believes that reason plays a crucial role in moral and spiritual life: to enable the differentiation between good and evil and guide individuals towards the right path. …”
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L’hallucination de la connaissance : La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert by Dagmar Stöferle

“…Demonology is explained by a heretic conception of evil which is based on a false substantialisation and illustrated most prominently by Manicheism.  …”
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Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe by Nhlanhla Landan, Sindiso Zhou, Baba Tshotsho

“…The clergy also often used their ‘elevated’ religious position to threaten women with evil spirits and the perpetuation of their problems if they would not do as the religious leader instructed, which often led directly to sexual assault. …”
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MODERNITY AND WAR: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH IN POLEMOLOGY by A. A. Kravchenko, O. V. Starovoit

“…Setting clear boundaries or Rubicon, between coercion and violence (in the meaning of evil) is possible only in cases when mankind gives up its private interests and takes care of the future of the Earth civilization. …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…Schaffer insists, though, that, on the contrary, this fictionalized, “angel in the house” ideal of Meynell was only a necessary evil, and must not be allowed to cloud our understanding of the career that it helped enable.Meynell is surely as important as Schaffer says she is, but what if her “piety” is more complex? …”
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