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  • Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or perhaps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation.   (source)
    innovation = change made by the introduction of something new
  • Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.   (source)
    innovator = someone who brings something new to an environment
  • "Sixers" was the derogatory nickname gunters had given to employees of Innovative Online Industries.†   (source)
  • Upscale restaurants in America, calling themselves "innovative and gourmet," prepare food the way we used to.†   (source)
  • Students with children of their own appeared on college campuses; bookstores sold out of famous literary works; technological innovation became the focus in factories; and scientific research now enjoyed a sacred halo.†   (source)
  • This had been Lenin's greatest innovation: a line that, like the Proletariat itself, was universal and infinite.†   (source)
  • I know what they're looking for: a magical public policy solution or an innovative government program.†   (source)
  • He loved the evenings, when the day's work was done and he was free to experiment, innovate, and create fine works of art.†   (source)
  • A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation...†   (source)
  • Another innovation born here.†   (source)
  • Foaly's innovation, of course.†   (source)
  • And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.†   (source)
  • But its success is best understood not in terms of its curriculum, its teachers, its resources, or some kind of institutional innovation.†   (source)
  • In any case, Iwamura Electric was considered more innovative and had a better reputation.†   (source)
  • Robert Coover has a story called "The Gingerbread House" (1969) whose innovation is that the two children aren't called Hansel and Gretel.†   (source)
  • Burnham and Root realized that Jenney's innovation freed builders from the last physical constraints on altitude.†   (source)
  • This is not least true of our next key phrase, a new scientific method, another Renaissance innovation which I will tell you about.†   (source)
  • He's still in an odd place, professionally: the most innovative offensive mind of his generation and nobody understands what he's thought up.†   (source)
  • Probably the finest seaman in Russian history, Marakov's reputation as a patriot and an innovative fighting sailor was sufficiently unblemished that a Communist government would eventually see fit to name a missile cruiser in his memory.†   (source)
  • It is an innovation that was created by some of the franchises farther south and has been spreading northward along with its clientele.†   (source)
  • Quite innovative—the venom injection straight to your heart was his idea.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that Esteban Trueba was no great lover of innovation, and had, in fact, a deep mistrust of the dislocations of modernity, he decided that his house should be constructed like the new palaces of North America and Europe, with all the comforts but retaining a classical style.†   (source)
  • Ont he occasion of the celebration of the new century, there was an innovative program of public ceremonies, the most memorable of which was the first journey in a balloon, the fruit of the boundless initiative of Dr. Juvenal Urbino.†   (source)
  • She denied it but said that it was her impression that you were extremely resourceful, with an innovative way of thinking.†   (source)
  • They were a special innovation and are now useless.†   (source)
  • On one such night I got into bed next to Babette and told her how the chancellor had advised me, back in 1968, to do something about my name and appearance if I wanted to be taken seriously as a Hitler innovator.†   (source)
  • With innovative technology and the proper organization, a small number of workers can produce an enormous amount of goods cheaply.†   (source)
  • Brown implemented an innovative re-directing braking system that improved safety of rappel operations.†   (source)
  • In the world of misogyny, that is technological innovation.†   (source)
  • Chock-full of breathtaking leaps and innovative steps that belie Ms.†   (source)
  • This is an innovative range of products designed to combine flexibility and security with the powerful performance associated with Sacrum.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of innovative policing strategies put into place in New York City, where murders would fall from 2,262 in 1990 to 540 in 2005.†   (source)
  • Milo was by nature opposed to any innovation that threatened to disrupt the normal course of affairs.†   (source)
  • A priceless, one-of-a-kind couture evening gown from one of the most innovative and classic fashion designers in the world.†   (source)
  • If you've been in prison as long as I have, you've experienced a good many innovative highs.†   (source)
  • It seemed that each week, another modern innovation or technological insight had vanished.†   (source)
  • It needs to be a paper on innovation, and it has to be based on the textbook.†   (source)
  • And Silicon Valley has some of the smartest, most innovative monkeys in the world.†   (source)
  • Those guys just kept innovating!†   (source)
  • There were about a dozen of you whose writing bore the marks of a potential Caretaker—imagination, innovation, conviction, and clarity—and I left it to Stellan to choose who to train further.†   (source)
  • Man of the Year by the Kiwanis Club, a postwar May-comb innovation, usually meant Young Man Going Places.†   (source)
  • An innovator educationally and otherwise, Aslam had painted the walls of his house with bold geometric designs in primary colors.†   (source)
  • But if our language stopped changing it would mean that American society had ceased to be dynamic, innovative, pulsing with life—that the great river had frozen up.†   (source)
  • He'd been innovating extensively.†   (source)
  • This was Reverend Mokitimi's innovation of having male and female students dine together in hall at Sunday lunch.†   (source)
  • He wasbold, innovative, blessed with an instinct for promotion, slick, unscrupulous, and completely magnetic.†   (source)
  • His energy caught the attention of the Phoenix Jaycees, a charitable organization of businessmen, who named Fredi the city's Most Innovative Teacher in 1988.†   (source)
  • The PRINCE is quite fascinated by their costume and they demonstrate the adaptations they have made to it, pulling down the mask to demonstrate how the egungun normally appears, then showing the various press-button controls they have innovated for the face flaps, the sleeves, etc. They demonstrate the dance steps and the guttural sounds made by the egungun, harass other dancers in the hall, MRS PILKINGS playing the 'restrainer' to PILKINGS' manic darts.†   (source)
  • But I'm afraid that in this particular instance it would result in one of two things: a string of innovative new expletives or her knee in my balls.†   (source)
  • I think what Willie brought to the family business was energy, innovation, direction, and motivation, which are attributes that a leader has to have.†   (source)
  • On a recent occasion, it made the monarch tremble at the idea of an innovation attempted by them.†   (source)
  • He'd continued to innovate when most other corporations were willing to coast.†   (source)
  • One is smart, one is innovative, one has certain skills and personality traits, and the rest one learns.†   (source)
  • Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.†   (source)
  • Louisiana had been a State for less than three years, but outnumbered Americans innovated, outnumbered Americans used the tactics of the frontier to defeat a veteran British force trained in the strategy of the Napoleonic wars.†   (source)
  • That new form of human society developed by the Nazis of which Rubenstein writes (extending Arendt's thesis) is a "society of total domination," evolving directly from the institution of chattel slavery as it was practiced by the great nations of the West, yet urged on to its despotic apotheosis at Auschwitz through an innovative concept which by contrast casts a benign light on old-fashioned plantation slavery even at its most barbaric: this blood-fresh concept was based on the simple but absolute expendability of human life.†   (source)
  • We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war.†   (source)
  • But there is always some confounded innovator.†   (source)
  • The next brilliant innovator arose and said, quite surprisingly, "I feed the hog.†   (source)
  • "Melisma," Owen said after a moment, "is innovative and textured."   (source)
    innovative = new and different
  • In the manufacturing realm, they had a hundred and fifty people, and they worked closely together and there was peer pressure about how to be the best and how to be the most innovative.   (source)
    innovative = able to develop good, new ideas
  • The Commerce Secretary said the budget puts American entrepreneurs and workers in prime position to innovate and create wealth for their businesses, their families and their nation.
  • Mrs. Lynde says they've never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation.   (source)
    innovation = something that is new and different
  • They were to use their own initiative and be innovative as they went forward.†   (source)
  • Francis wouldn't tell Mae what the subject of that Friday's innovation talk was.†   (source)
  • And the 1970s and early 1980s were a golden era for innovation in the passing game.†   (source)
  • Gorshkov is a decent tactical theoretician, and occasionally a very innovative gent.†   (source)
  • Sincerely,
    Nolan Sorrento
    Head of Operations
    Innovative Online Industries†   (source)
  • It's hard to imagine how that particular innovation couldn't have tipped.†   (source)
  • But suddenly Airwalk wasn't an Innovator shoe anymore.†   (source)
  • You're referring to the employees of Innovative Online Industries?†   (source)
  • Welcome to Innovative Online Industries!†   (source)
  • Palmer's innovation was something he called the Distracter.†   (source)
  • Lambesis's strategy was based on translating Innovator shoes for the Majority.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps they'd discovered some new and innovative way to cheat.†   (source)
  • That fashion show had been the most innovative, until this year.†   (source)
  • So many people devoted to discovery and innovation—it was lovely.†   (source)
  • They are a unique source of innovation and long-term stewardship of the land.†   (source)
  • Innovation is a little broad, Mrs. Jones.†   (source)
  • One of the most innovative was an advanced 256-bit encryption program called Mujahideen Secrets.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo cracked jokes and spouted strange (though often innovative) ideas.†   (source)
  • Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair's innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.†   (source)
  • RESIDUAL POISON: an innovation attributed to the Mentat Piter de Vries whereby the body is impregnated with a substance for which repeated antidotes must be administered.†   (source)
  • The remaining peasants, who viewed newly introduced approaches to agriculture with resentment and suspicion, proved antagonistic to even the smallest efforts at innovation.†   (source)
  • But when it was over, she broke with convention and did not stay in her seat, according to the custom of the day, to receive the spiritual renewal of condolences, but made her way instead through the crowd to thank each one of the guests: an innovative gesture that was very much in harmony with her style and character.†   (source)
  • It was possible that the running game awaited some innovative coach to figure out how to make it work more efficiently.†   (source)
  • There were visits, ten a day at least, from companies presenting innovative new products to the Circle.†   (source)
  • At first he thought that the lesson under the almond trees was a casual innovation due, perhaps, to the interminable repairs on the house, but in the days that followed he came to understand that Fermina Daza would be there, within view, every afternoon at the same time during the three months of vacation, and that certainty filled him with new hope.†   (source)
  • Most observers assumed he was still involved, and some insisted that his fingerprints, his knack for solutions global and elegant and infinitely scalable, were on every major Circle innovation.†   (source)
  • After the game, Bill Walsh retired, but his innovation continued to sweep the league in various forms.†   (source)
  • These plans were kept unknown until they were revealed, and with each successive innovation brought forth by the Circle, it became less clear which had originated from Ty himself and which were the products of the increasingly vast group of inventors, the best in the world, who were now in the company fold.†   (source)
  • As Indianapolis Colts general manager Bill Polian, who sat on the committee to change the rules, puts it, "Innovation drove the rule changes rather than the other way around?'†   (source)
  • Gordon's research showed that Innovator kids were heavily into the Dalai Lama and all of the very serious issues raised by the occupation of Tibet.†   (source)
  • My name is Michael Wilson, and I'm with the Credit and Collections division of Innovative Online Industries.†   (source)
  • A small-college coach named Elmer Berry who had used an innovative passing attack to sneak up and beat bigger schools got so worked up about the anti-pass sentiment that he penned a counterblast, called The Forward Pass in Football.†   (source)
  • When I sorted the remaining messages by sender, I discovered that I'd received over five thousand e-mails from Innovative Online Industries.†   (source)
  • If they were going to translate Innovator ideas for the mainstream, they first had to find out what those Innovator ideas were.†   (source)
  • Dear Parzival, First, allow me to congratulate you on your recent accomplishments, which we at Innovative Online Industries hold in the highest regard.†   (source)
  • It has been profitable for thirty-five consecutive years and has growth rates and an innovative, high-profit product line that is the envy of the industry.†   (source)
  • I stared out the window in silent apprehension as the corporate headquarters of Innovative Online Industries Inc. came into view: two rectangular skyscrapers flanking a circular one, forming the IOI corporate logo.†   (source)
  • With her stable of Innovator correspondents in place, Gordon would then go back to them two or three or four times a year, asking them what music they were listening to, what television shows they were watching, what clothes they were buying, or what their goals and aspirations were.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the best way to understand what Lambesis did is to go back to what sociologists call the diffusion model, which is a detailed, academic way of looking at how a contagious idea or product or innovation moves through a population.†   (source)
  • Norma McCorvey had a far greater impact on crime than did the combined forces of gun control, a strong economy, and innovative police strategies.†   (source)
  • It was a dilapidated place—one former rider compared it to an outhouse—but like everything else in Tijuana, it was innovative, offering the first primitive movable starting gates and photo finishes.†   (source)
  • We are endlessly creative, and that innovation in all fields constantly generates fresh language, considered slang or jargon when new, but soon made respectable or it disappears.†   (source)
  • Becky Bloomwood was working as a financial journalist when she devised the innovative concept of Bloomwood Stores.†   (source)
  • This stunning innovation, so similar in nature to something we might come across in the National Enquirer or the Star, made us feel a little weary, glutted in an insubstantial way, as after a junk food spree.†   (source)
  • Dear Mr. Queen, As one of our most valued EZ Products customers, please find enclosed our latest innovation for your perusal.†   (source)
  • Still, as Dr. Wu said, fifteen years from now, we might be able to buy a heart off a shelf and have it installed at Best B u y ....the idea was to keep Claire alive long enough to let medical innovation catch up to her.†   (source)
  • Rather, it is that companies that are innovative enough to promote women are also ahead of the curve in reacting to business opportunities.†   (source)
  • It is a restless, innovative society, its social patterns and mores, its lifestyles, evolving as swiftly as its genius in scientific and technological creativity; it is endlessly inventive in finding new pathways for the pursuit of happiness and marketing them to an American population approaching three hundred million.†   (source)
  • Lake Superior State University used an innovative dual-pump system, while Long Beach City College employed a three-way solenoid valve.†   (source)
  • "I'm telling you," he'd say to me, all jazzed up with that pre-purchase enthusiasm, "that's what I call an innovation!"†   (source)
  • Which naturally leads to a related pair of crime-drop explanations:
    Innovative policing strategies
    Increased number of police†   (source)
  • Along with a number of other innovative ranchers in Colorado, he is trying to raise cattle in a way that does not harm consumers or the land.†   (source)
  • Barbara Wallraff, a widely published writer on language issues, questions the frequent assumption that, because American culture furthers innovation and openness to new ideas, that culture is inseparable from the English language: Even if the vanguards in all scientific and technological fields, everywhere in the world, used English in their work, once the fruits of their labor became known to ordinaiy people and began to matter to them, people would coin words in their local languages to describe these things.†   (source)
  • But a careful analysis of the facts shows that the innovative policing strategies probably had little effect on this huge decline.†   (source)
  • He may have proven himself to be one of the most innovative underwater engineers in the country, but now he was just another day laborer.†   (source)
  • Although many factors helped revolutionize the poultry industry and increase the power of the large processors, one innovation played an especially important role.†   (source)
  • The 1950s soon became "the Golden Age of Food Processing," in the words of historian Harvey Levenstein, a decade in which one marvelous innovation after another promised to simplify the lives of American housewives: frozen orange juice, frozen TV dinners, the Chicken-of-Tomorrow, "Potato salad from a package!"†   (source)
  • But it wasn't only the number of police that changed in the 1990s; consider the most commonly cited crime-drop explanation of all: innovative policing strategies.†   (source)
  • New York City was a clear innovator in police strategies during the 1990s crime drop, and it also enjoyed the greatest decline in crime of any large American city.†   (source)
  • New York City had high abortion rates and lay within an early-legalizing state, a pair of facts that further dampen the claim that innovative policing caused the crime drop.†   (source)
  • The Innovators had a heavily ironic interest in country club culture.†   (source)
  • The first two groups — the Innovators and Early Adopters — are visionaries.†   (source)
  • It is also the case that their ads helped to tip the ideas they were discovering among Innovators.†   (source)
  • They all fit a particular personality type: they were Innovators.†   (source)
  • The Innovators always got to wear a different, more exclusive shoe than everyone else.†   (source)
  • Innovate.†   (source)
  • Mae entered and was greeted by most of the Gang of 40, the group of innovators who routinely assessed and greenlighted new Circle ventures.†   (source)
  • This was the big difference in Walsh's approach from previous innovators of the passing game: it stripped a lot of the risk out of passing.†   (source)
  • But in a high-technology company like Gore, which relies for its market edge on its ability to innovate and react quickly to demanding and sophisticated customers, this kind of global memory system is critical.†   (source)
  • Innovators were into kung fu movies.†   (source)
  • In the language of diffusion research, the handful of farmers who started trying hybrid seed at the very beginning of the 1930s were the Innovators, the adventurous ones.†   (source)
  • The Innovators try something new.†   (source)
  • What they could do, though, was start an epidemic in which their own ad campaign played the role of translator, serving as an intermediary between the Innovators and everyone else.†   (source)
  • If she found new trends or ideas or concepts that were catching fire among Innovators around the country, the firm would plant those same concepts in the Airwalk ads they were creating.†   (source)
  • They were the opinion leaders in the community, the respected, thoughtful people who watched and analyzed what those wild Innovators were doing and then followed suit.†   (source)
  • They took the cultural cues from the Innovators — cues that the mainstream kids may have seen but not been able to make sense of—and leveled, sharpened, and assimilated them into a more coherent form.†   (source)
  • And by comparing what her Innovators were saying and doing with what mainstream kids were saying and doing three months or six months or a year later, she was able to track what sorts of ideas were able to make the jump from the cool subcultures to the Majority.†   (source)
  • If anyone wants to start an epidemic, then — whether it is of shoes or behavior or a piece of software — he or she has to somehow employ Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in this very way: he or she has to find some person or some means to translate the message of the Innovators into something the rest of us can understand.†   (source)
  • After taking his time chewing and swallowing, he said, "The Baby Bejesuses are innovators of the genre."†   (source)
  • Apparently, we were the only unit within the prison where this had happened, and the only reason anyone in power even believed it was because when our cells were tossed, the COs confiscated the shampoo bottles and milk containers and even plastic bags that we had all innovatively used to store some extra wine before it had run dry; and because swabs taken in the pipes revealed a matching substance.†   (source)
  • However, she was determined to accomplish it, for Rhett was coming to supper and he always noticed and commented upon any innovation of dress or hair.†   (source)
  • Still, he reflected, it might not be a disagreeable innovation; indeed, a female harpsichordist might be an asset to any community that permitted itself to be (in Chang's words) "moderately heretical.†   (source)
  • Which was: Tiny Duffy sitting in a great soft leather chair with his great soft hams flowing over the leather, and his great soft belly flowing over his great soft hams, and a long cigarette holder with a burning cigarette stuck jauntily out from one side of his face (the cigarette holder was a recent innovation, imitated from a gentleman who was the most prominent member of the political party to which Tiny Duffy gave his allegiance) and his great soft face flowing down over his collar, and a diamond ring on his finger, big as a walnut—for all of that was Tiny Duffy, who was not credible but true and who had obviously consulted the cartoons by Harper'†   (source)
  • And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to propose a surprise— an innovation that may shock some of you, but I ask you to remember that all this is done for the hospital and for the benefit of our boys lying there.†   (source)
  • The editor, sensing the social drama of the letter, put it on the second page of the paper, in itself a startling innovation, as the first two pages of the paper were always devoted to advertisements of slaves, mules, plows, coffins, houses for sale or rent, cures for private diseases, abortifacients and restoratives for lost manhood.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Mrs. Jett had inspired this innovation, and if so Milly felt that she would welcome it.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Perkins' most unpopular innovation was his system of taking occasionally another man's form.†   (source)
  • Moderate variety is allowed, but no wild innovation or picking quarrels with the bride of the wind.†   (source)
  • Tom, in his new job, worked out an innovation much to Hudnall's liking.†   (source)
  • The innovation, if not wrong as an innovation, will be wrong as an expense.†   (source)
  • * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply Bonaparte!†   (source)
  • Moreover, it is a painful innovation on the order of all nomenclatures.†   (source)
  • Democratic ages are periods of experiment, innovation, and adventure.†   (source)
  • "That's all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it," the monks decided.†   (source)
  • The innovation—ary—" he tasted the coinage doubtfully, "—steps, that you will agree are necessary, will cost twenty thousand dollars American.†   (source)
  • Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.†   (source)
  • On the door hung a heavy brass knocker, an innovation introduced into the village by Helen White's mother, who had also organized a women's club for the study of poetry.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, the Church's love of innovation had consisted of Inquisitions, whose task was to throttle all life-affirming ideas, to suffocate them in the smoke of the stake: but nowadays she was sending out her emissaries to announce that she was all (or upending things, that her goal was to replace freedom, education, and democracy with dictatorship of the mob and barbarism.†   (source)
  • This was an innovation for one who had chosen to adopt the style of general practitioner in a country town, and would be felt as offensive criticism by his professional brethren.†   (source)
  • The feeblest member of a family—the one who has the least character—is often the merest epitome of the family habits and traditions; and Mrs. Tulliver was a thorough Dodson, though a mild one, as small-beer, so long as it is anything, is only describable as very weak ale: and though she had groaned a little in her youth under the yoke of her elder sisters, and still shed occasional tears at their sisterly reproaches, it was not in Mrs. Tulliver to be an innovator on the family ideas.†   (source)
  • The most common expedient employed by democratic nations to make an innovation in language consists in giving some unwonted meaning to an expression already in use.†   (source)
  • Who introduced this innovation?†   (source)
  • But to this day it exists in few monasteries only, and has sometimes been almost persecuted as an innovation in Russia.†   (source)
  • Donald Farfrae was in the minds of both as the innovator, for though not a farmer he was closely leagued with farming operations.†   (source)
  • For the opposite reason, Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England, and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them; being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them, as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John's licentious and tyrannical disposition.†   (source)
  • It had not been long occupied, and was garrisoned by a battalion of a regiment which had been originally Scotch, but into which many Americans had been received since its arrival in this country; all innovation that had led the way to Mabel's father filling the humble but responsible situation of the oldest sergeant.†   (source)
  • They have therefore nothing to gain by innovation, which adds a conservative interest to their natural taste for public order.†   (source)
  • Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Grant so happily blended the universally received opinions of the Christian faith with the dogmas of his own church that, although none were entirely exempt from the influence of his reasons, very few took any alarm at the innovation.†   (source)
  • But the Titan of innovation,— angel or fiend, double in his nature, and capable of deeds befitting both characters,—at first shaking down only the old and rotten shapes of things, had now, as it appeared, laid his terrible hand upon the main pillars which supported the whole edifice of our moral and spiritual state.†   (source)
  • Uncas acted as attendant to the females, performing all the little offices within his power, with a mixture of dignity and anxious grace, that served to amuse Heyward, who well knew that it was an utter innovation on the Indian customs, which forbid their warriors to descend to any menial employment, especially in favor of their women.†   (source)
  • "That was it, was it?" said the sheriff, with some displeasure at this innovation on his memoranda; "and could you not make a better glass than this?†   (source)
  • Such an innovation on Casterbridge customs as a flitting of bridegroom and bride from the town immediately after the ceremony, was not likely, but if it should have taken place he would wait till their return.†   (source)
  • The very individuals who conduct these changes disclaim all intention of innovation, and they had rather resort to absurd expedients than plead guilty to so great a crime.†   (source)
  • They implied that he was insolent, pretentious, and given to that reckless innovation for the sake of noise and show which was the essence of the charlatan.†   (source)
  • He considered the introduction of the settlers as an innovation on his rights, I believe for he expressed much dissatisfaction at the measure, though it was in his confused and ambiguous manner.†   (source)
  • It is a mistake to believe that, when once the equality of conditions has become the old and uncontested state of society, and has imparted its characteristics to the manners of a nation, men will easily allow themselves to be thrust into perilous risks by an imprudent leader or a bold innovator.†   (source)
  • Besides he had, before visiting the monastery, a strong prejudice against the institution of "elders," which he only knew of by hearsay and believed to be a pernicious innovation.†   (source)
  • The American, taken as a chance specimen of his countrymen, must then be a man of singular warmth in his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and, above all, of innovation.†   (source)
  • I do not, then, assert that all the members of the legal profession are at all times the friends of order and the opponents of innovation, but merely that most of them usually are so.†   (source)
  • "He wouldn't be an elder ...he would refuse ...he wouldn't serve a cursed innovation ...he wouldn't imitate their foolery," other voices chimed in at once.†   (source)
  • As men grow more like each other, the doctrine of the equality of the intellect gradually infuses itself into their opinions; and it becomes more difficult for any innovator to acquire or to exert much influence over the minds of a people.†   (source)
  • It is my private opinion that several different causes were simultaneously at work, one of which was the deeply-rooted hostility to the institution of elders as a pernicious innovation, an antipathy hidden deep in the hearts of many of the monks.†   (source)
  • Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.†   (source)
  • When property becomes so fluctuating, and the love of property so restless and so ardent, I cannot but fear that men may arrive at such a state as to regard every new theory as a peril, every innovation as an irksome toil, every social improvement as a stepping-stone to revolution, and so refuse to move altogether for fear of being moved too far.†   (source)
  • Indirect Influence Of Religious Opinions Upon Political Society In The United States Christian morality common to all sects—Influence of religion upon the manners of the Americans—Respect for the marriage tie—In what manner religion confines the imagination of the Americans within certain limits, and checks the passion of innovation—Opinion of the Americans on the political utility of religion—Their exertions to extend and secure its predominance.†   (source)
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