desolating sacrilege
desolating sacrilege (NRSV; ‘
abomination of desolation’, AV and REB in Mark 13: 14; ‘appalling abomination’, NJB). The phrase is used in Dan. 9: 27 to denote the pagan
altar set up in the Jerusalem Temple by
Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 BCE; and in Mark 13: 14 it may refer to the failed attempt by the emperor Caligula to install his statue in the Temple (40 CE) or to an event such as the display of army emblems in the Temple in the
war of 66–70 CE. Luke (21: 20) probably has the siege of the city in mind and writes therefore after the sacrilege has occurred.
Mark may be suggesting that Jesus is warning his
disciples about coming trials and urging them not to be taken by surprise.
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Sanctions: Don't Love Them or Hate Them, Make Them Work.
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Peru. In 1980, financial sanctions imposed by the European Community...authoritarian policies. Financial sanctions also played a role in pushing...Regardless of the type of sanction contemplated, a few basic rules must be followed. First, sanctions need to be supported by the...
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Sanctions are 'more deadly than warfare'
Magazine article from: New African; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Sanctions are having a debilitating effect on the...Zimbabwe (the central bank). "Economic sanctions unless carefully targeted have the capacity...people than armed warfare," he says. Sanctions in Zimbabwe and indeed any other country...
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Sanctions Connected to Dress Code Violations in Secondary School Handbooks
Magazine article from: Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...nature.The disciplinary sanctions were aligned with the...prevalence of suspension as a sanction for dress code violations...performance. External sanctions occur when members of...relatively mild external sanction. For example, a male...More severe external sanctions include suspension ...
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SANCTIONS AND U.S. POLICY INTERESTS:THEA M. LEE
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 6/3/1998; 700+ words
; ...on the Costs and Benefits of Economic Sanctions June 3, 1998 Mr. Chairman, members...effectiveness and appropriate use of economic sanctions. This is a vast and complex topic...one disputes that unilateral economic sanctions are an essential policy tool, that should...
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SANCTIONS AND U.S. POLICY INTERESTS:JEFFREY J. SCHOTT
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 6/3/1998; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 US ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD EXECUTION...again to discuss the use of economic sanctions in pursuit of important U.S. foreign...objective analysis of overall U.S. sanctions policies will balance the political...
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Sanctions: modify 'em. (India and Pakistan)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; U.S. sanctions against India and Pakistan are a classic case of how not to impose sanctions. While the U.S. ban on foreign aid and...commitment to nuclear weapons development. Sanctions that ignore the critical distinction between...
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Sanctions Backfired
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/28/1987; ; 700+ words
; Have economic sanctions against South Africa backfired? Probably yes. Is there anybody in America who supported sanctions who now thinks that maybe sanctions weren't such a wonderful idea after all? Probably not...
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Economic sanctions and their effect on the energy industry
Magazine article from: Texas International Law Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; I. INTRODUCTION Economic sanctions have greatly restricted the ability of oil companies, particularly...of the world's population is subject to United States sanctions.1 Sanctions against Iran, Libya, and Iraq, in particular, stand as...
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The Sanctions Fallacy; They are no alternative to military force.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/19/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...George Bush. I am no great believer in sanctions, but even I thought that with Saddam's military and economy already in ruins, sanctions would finish him off. And yet after almost a year and a half of the most severe sanctions in history, applied to a country devastated...
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Economic sanctions, humanitarianism, and conflict after the cold war.
Magazine article from: Social Justice; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Introduction SANCTIONS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY THE INTERRUPTION...relations (Losman, 1979). Economic sanctions have become an increasingly common tool...between diplomacy and armed force, sanctions usually aim to achieve political ends...
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sanction
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sanction in law and ethics...societies impose sanctions on their members...behavior. These sanctions range from formal...behavior. A sanction may be either...decision to effect a sanction greatly limits...60s economic sanctions were applied...
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Sanction
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...other types of sanctions exist. Depending...the case, a sanction may be the suspension...flexible form of sanction. Contempt-of-court sanctions may be either...special form of sanction taken by one...International sanctions are measures...
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International Sanctions, Health Impact of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS, HEALTH IMPACT OF To sanction a country is to interrupt communications...diplomacy, or economic relations. Sanctions have become especially common since the end of the Cold War. Sanctions appear to externalize all costs...
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Sanctions, Iraqi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
SANCTIONS, IRAQI Trade and financial restrictions...nature and effects of the United Nations sanctions on Iraq are more complex than has often...declared comprehensive trade and financial sanctions against Iraq under UN Resolution 661...
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pragmatic sanction
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pragmatic sanction decision of state dealing...modern times. The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, issued by...been many other pragmatic sanctions, but the term, if unqualified...refers to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, issued by Holy...
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