And I began to write this book, trying to think beyond the paradigm of counter insurgency, and for those people that are in the military, that's like anathema . Like, what? Dave Kilcullen? Didn't you write a book on counter insurgency?
The PRC is not a democracy. There's no signs that it's going to become a democracy anytime soon. The idea of an independent Taiwan is still anathema to the CCP in Beijing and is probably a cause for war.
But to John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham and other philosophers like that on whom our legal system and its principles are often based-- that would have been anathema to them for the same reason that suicide stopped being illegal not so long ago. Because people are generally thought to be able to do things which harm themselves and should be free to do that.
I mean, I think laziness is often thought of as one of the deadly sins, but I don't think it's a sin at all. And I was interested-- shortcut surely is anathema to him, because he wants to spend days getting to the top of a mountain, and he's enjoying doing that work.
And if what you're counting on is some technological silver bullet, you have to imagine that it's going to be-- if it hasn't been invented already, This would have been completely anathema to the scientific community a decade ago.
And Dave responded back. And he said your beliefs are anathema to me. And having you, a Christian, in this dressing room is like having a Nazi in here.
We're stuck between revelation and true investigation and that's where we are with torture. Torture has gone from being an anathema as it was before the war on terror to being essentially a policy choice, and also to being a political football. I brought along yesterday's copy of the New York Times, hard copy, front page, "Groups Attack on Justice Department Lawyers, Divides Conservatives".
And so that's why I say out about it. There is also this thing of-- and it just seems so anathema , or whatever the word is, of what Japan really was always about.
Well, I get asked that question a lot. I also joke that it's really am anathema for a comedian to talk about God or spirituality.
We eschewed manicures, makeup, and hair salons. Fancy weddings that required a year of planning were anathema . And we weren't about to devote every minute to hovering over our children the way our stay-at-home mothers hovered over us.
But what this means is the possibility of loss of influence in other post-Soviet states is bad. The possibility of not having sway over Ukraine is anathema . It's just-- it's crazy.
schedules are in different neighborhoods, even garbage pickup schedules in various neighborhoods. Government is kind of the enemy, regulations are anathema .
Maybe they're cut from the same cloth. And that idea, that concept is anathema to Matt because it means that if that's true, then really, well he's responsible for all this mayhem, and he needs to kind of hang up the suit, which is probably the thing he wants to do least of all.
And then they had us to do a bunch of tests. And because Warren has been so aligned for so long the thought was just utter anathema to him.
when he wrote the Declaration of Independence and and so you know the far right when they start calling people that are peace concentration of resources and consolidation of government power which I think is anathema to the young so I think that would be the natural
And, in fact, those who advocated that were often anathema to the people who branded themselves as artificial intelligence.
of thing. And this is a thing that has sort of been anathema to NBA front offices over the years.
idea of literacy for all. This would never be thought of, and it would be anathema . And so if you got on a soapbox on a Saturday afternoon and said,
And that algorithmic approach to statistics, as Matt mentioned, would have been anathema both to Fisher and to Neyman, who hated each other's guts by the way,
And I really wanted to describe this concept of everything work together, which was a bit of an anathema for Western science.
Whether you are on the left or the right politically, whether you care about religion, whether religion is anathema to you,
However, in your book you write, and I quote, "The idea you could try to write comedy under the influence was anathema to us."
And unfortunately, the packet network architecture of ARPANET and the internet, later, was anathema to Plato's
I guarantee you'll get a really bad response because I have done this, and there's nothing more anathema to a traditional curator
Because he saw what they stood for, as well many other people saw, as anathema , as heretical, as antithetical to everything that is in accordance
But, on the other hand, there were a lot of evidence that he felt that Benazir Bhutto was anathema to what he stood for.