ISAIAH BERLIN AS A PHILOSOPHER AND A TEACHER by Olga L. Granovskaya

“…His understanding of the negative and positive conceptions of liberty has become canonical for the modern liberal thought, and his idea of value pluralism has become its basic assumption and its main difficulty.…”
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Genetic Transformation of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with the Gus Color Marker, the Bar Herbicide Resistance, and the Barley (Hordeum vulgare) HVA1 Drought Tolerance Genes by Kingdom Kwapata, Thang Nguyen, Mariam Sticklen

“…Transgenes included gus color marker which visually confirmed transgenic events, the bar herbicide resistance selectable marker used for in vitro selection of transgenic cultures and which confirmed Liberty herbicide resistant plants, and the barley (Hordeum vulgare) late embryogenesis abundant protein (HVA1) which conferred drought tolerance with a corresponding increase in root length of transgenic plants. …”
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L’ombre du Condor by Franck Gaudichaud

“…If one looks today, with the historian's eyes, the South Cone at the end of the sixties and seventies and then, by continuation, turns a page of some years to fix the same part of the world, the report is very clear: the Latino-American subcontinent passed, in general, from a phase of important social mobilization and politicisation, rise of revolutionary parties and organizations, elections of left or progressive populists governments developing a dynamic of rupture with imperialism, to a generalized backward movement of the working class organizations, an era of state-controlled political violence, the massive reduction of liberty of expression, the physical and ideological destruction of the militants and revolutionary movements, the setting up of neoliberal capitalistic economic models. …”
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Aerial Wanderings and Mountain Territorialities: Geographical Reflections on Cross-Country Paragliding by Camille Girault

“…Moreover, the conflict between the sport’s recreational and contemplative dimensions and its performance and competitive dimensions, combined with the intangible factors (air conditions, rules governing airspace) that constrain pilots’ liberty of movement, mean that paragliding is not quite as synonymous with freedom as one might think. …”
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Britannia : Grandeur et infortune d’une allégorie nationale dans l’univers du cartoon britannique 1842-1999 by Gilbert Millat

“…Britannia, sometimes accompanied by the emblematic British Lion, has long been personifying justice, liberty, and the British Empire on coins and stamps as well as in graphic satire. …”
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NO MORE GRID GIRLS AT FORMULA ONE: THE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON HOSTESSES’ SEXUALIZED BODIES, OBJECTIFICATION, AND FEMALE AGENCY by Honorata Jakubowska

“…At the beginning of 2018, Liberty Media, the owner of Formula One (hereafter, F1), decided to drop so-called grid girls from the race weekends beginning with the 2018 season, which has created an opportunity to analyze the perception of hostesses’ status and their bodies in contemporary sport. …”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…Moreover, Boadicea’s portrayal as an eloquent orator aligned with the classicizing of her appearance, contributing to her symbolic status as defender of British liberty. While originally depicted as a barbarian, Boadicea ultimately became emblematic of imperial ideology, an allegory of Britain’s civilizing mission and a protector of British institutions, exemplifying how historical figures can be reinterpreted and demonstrating the essential part played by visual culture in such shifts.…”
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Un texte autographe inédit de Machiavel : la Minuta di provvisione per la restituzione dei beni agli eredi dei Medici e per la riforma dello stato (projet de décret pour la restitu... by Andrea Guidi

“…This proposal intended, first of all, to preserve the liberty of the city, by preventing the suppression of the Great Council by the Medici as well as by finding a compromise with the aristocratic faction, which was temporarily leading the new administration.…”
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The Greek Vision of America during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1830) by Konstantinos Diogos

“…This powerful symbol of liberty was integrated in the Greek vision of freedom. …”
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Maternity behind and beyond bars: analysis from the perspective of protection bioethics by Denise Santana Silva dos Santos, Dulcinéia Ghizoni Schneider, Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Vargas

“…Participantes were: six mothers deprived of liberty, 15 health professionals, and nine prison officers. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…The rise of post-apocalyptic road narratives signals a genre shift, questioning the myth of universal mobility tied to an ideologic conception of liberty. This study delves into this evolution, analyzing pessimistic yet realistic post-apocalyptic road novels and films like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, John Hillcoat’s adaptation, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier, and Casey Affleck’s Light of my Life. …”
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Thomas Aquinas: on law, tyranny and resistance by N. P. Swartz

“…According to this principle property, liberty and life (basic individual rights) are subordinate to or even sacrificed for the supposed public good. …”
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Entre o Butsudan e a missa: práticas religiosas de imigrantes japoneses no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil by Tomoko Kimura Gaudioso, André Luis Ramos Soares

“…This study aims to show the religious diversity, especially religious expression from the Far East, in particular those that have arisen throughout the Japanese immigration to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Japanese traditional religion, such as Buddhism and Shinto, Japanese new religions, such as Perfect Liberty, Soka Gakkai e Tenrikyô, and the interaction with the local religions, such as Catholicism, Protestantism and African-Brazilian religions. …”
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The Conspiracist Strategy: Lessons from American Alternative Health Promotions by Gad Yair

“…They then call citizens-cum-patients to protect their liberties from hidden machinations by buying 'hidden' or 'censured' cures. …”
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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), from Unitarianism to Agnosticism by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…This article examines Harriet Martineau’s evolution from the Unitarian heritage of her family’s education to the free thinking of her mature age, religious doubt having been a source, not of anxiety, but of a keenly desired independence and liberty of action.…”
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Les trames vertes et bleues habitantes : un cheminement entre pratiques et représentations. L’exemple de la ville de Paris (France) by Étienne Grésillon, Marianne Cohen, Julien Lefour, Lydie Goeldner, Laurent Simon

“…In this densely populated (20 807 inhabitants per km2), densely built-up (41 %), and only little extended (105 km2) matrix the Parisians conceive these areas as places for respiration and liberty. Their perception of these areas is even more linked to their usage than to their social categories. …”
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The concept of most responsible in international criminal law and its problematic reception in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia by José Manuel Díaz-Soto, Diego Borbón

“…In the context of Colombia's transitional justice process, the definitions of “most responsible” and “determining participants” play a pivotal role in deciding who should face prosecution and sanctions of effective restriction of liberty for war crimes and crimes against humanity. …”
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The ‘Conquering’ Soldier-Merchants of the Balkans: Colonization, State Interventionism and Separatist Claims in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (18th-19th Cen... by Aysel Yıldız

“…From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the policy of keeping the Muslim-Ottoman presence and activities in the region at a minimum and obtaining full liberty of trade became an important component in the struggle for economic detachment from the Ottoman orbit, which in the long run contributed to the nation-state formation in Romania.…”
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Contribution à l’étude de la mobilité de l’hallux et de la phylogénie des primates actuels by J Norbert Kuhlmann

“…The length of the four last toes is inversely proportional to the number of degrees of liberty of the cuneometatarsal joint. The longest toe in the Strepsirrhini is the fourth, the one that can realize an halluci-digital termino-terminal pinch. …”
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Dissemination of the Russian emigrant literature and the literature of the Book Program in East Europe in 1950-1990 by Alvydas Kazakevičius

“…There were several Russian émigré political organizations: Russian Socialists, National People's Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS), Combatant Union for Russian People's Liberation (SBONR), Combatant Union for Russian Liberty (SBSR), Combatant League for People's Liberty (LBNS), and Central Unification of Political Emigrants from USSR (COPE). …”
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