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- Dictionarystraitjacket/ˈstreɪtˌdʒakɪt/
noun
- 1. a strong garment with long sleeves which can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
verb
- 1. restrain with a straitjacket.
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6 days ago · From a historiographical point of view, it seems impossible from the outset to do what is merely problematic from a sociological perspective and often desirable from a political perspective, namely "to force the phenomenon of anti-Semitism into the straitjacket of a universally valid definition."
6 days ago · Terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Definitions of terrorism are complex and controversial; because of the inherent ferocity of terrorism, the term in its popular usage has developed an intense stigma.
3 days ago · The 14th Amendment stands as a cornerstone of American constitutional law, embodying the principles of equality and justice that define our constitutional republic. Its enduring influence continues to shape the legal landscape, ensuring that the foundational ideals of liberty and justice for all remain at the forefront of our nation's progress.
1 day ago · Darwin’s ideas were reinterpreted—as in hijacked—right from the start by a lot of go-betweens claiming to defend them. Herbert Spencer’s (1820-1903) combination of his own ambitions for human progress with the theory of natural selection became a dominant social idea of nature.Spencer, who came up with the term “survival of the fittest,” rationalized it as a path toward betterment ...
4 days ago · The Telangana High Court has ruled that any act of damage to reputation, social standing or work prospects by one spouse to the other would fall within the term “cruelty”.
2 days ago · Instead, I'm perceiving a level of oppression that is finer, deeper-going and, from my point of view, far more worrying: thoroughly social but not very intelligent people are holding society in a straitjacket. And the laces are fastened bit by bit. My oldest son's experience with the system is a case study. He is now 17.
5 days ago · To define the sine and cosine of an acute angle α, start with a right triangle that contains an angle of measure α; in the accompanying figure, angle α in triangle ABC is the angle of interest. The three sides of the triangle are named as follows:
1 day ago · The End of Capitalism. Jonathan Church. 07/02/2024. “For Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher and notorious member of the Frankfurt School, Marx did us a service in trying to expose capitalism as a historically-contingent mode of production based on reified social relations that do not facilitate—in fact, impede—the harvesting of reason as ...
2 days ago · China’s policies encourage import of rare earth raw material, while putting domestic rare earth raw material mining into a straightjacket. Why: Monazite “single element mining” has been banned since 2012. The only reason we can imagine for that is the lack of control over radioactive waste disposal.
4 days ago · Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences.
