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  • With reference to illness, it is called the personalistic theory of disease.

    Addressing the Social Dimension of HIV/AIDS in Africa gay person of color 2009

  • With reference to illness, it is called the personalistic theory of disease.

    Archive 2009-07-01 gay person of color 2009

  • Furthermore, this paper shall not deal with the manigfaltigen disease causations or disease etiologies, sometimes classified as personalistic etiologies and naturalistic etiologies.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Richard Snyder, a professor of political science at Brown University in Rhode Island, said sultanistic regimes, which he prefers to call personalistic dictatorships or neo-patrimonial dictatorships, are all about the guy on top.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS 2011

  • The difference in political experience between the northern and southern halves of Vietnam and Korea … was not the difference between dictatorship and democracy but rather the difference between well-organized, broadly based, complex political systems, on the one hand, and unstable, fractured, narrowly based personalistic regimes, on the other.

    How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

  • Judeo-Christian moral is not individualistic: it is personalistic.

    Requiring viewing of pre-abortion ultrasounds: I’m with Crist on this one 2010

  • Russia is characterized by a quasi-personalistic mode which is perceived as a guarantor of political and economic stability; most of the people have a positive attitude towards the idea of a unique "Russian way", as well as towards the idea of "sovereign democracy", repeatedly articulated by both Putin and Medvedev, and the Russian Orthodox Church is actively involved in the process of nation-building.

    Putin's Paradox 2009

  • Process theology is as personalistic as panentheism can be, since the consequent nature of God, the very body of the cosmos, is subject to what every actual occasion feels—much like the agonized groaning of a man whose every cell is riddled with cancer.

    Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009

  • You are so stupid that you have brought bigotry - and a highly personalistic kind of bigotry, too - back in through the front door, while flattering yourself that you had driven it out through the window.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • This gives her the freedom to get into personalistic accusations about Obama and his past.

    Conversations on American Elitism 2008

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