Gabriel Severus
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Gabriel Severus (
c.1540–1616), theologian. He was consecrated Metropolitan of Philadelphia, now Ala-Shehr, in Asia Minor, in 1577. As the see was in Turkish hands he acted as bishop to the Greek Christians in Venice. His best-known work is a defence of the custom of venerating the Eucharistic elements at the
Great Entrance.
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CORPORATE 'HARA-KIRI' IS TYPICAL.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/28/1990; 700+ words
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Ninjas: Time for hara-kiri!
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/4/2007; ; 700+ words
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Eric Bloch: 'Zimbabwe business committing hara-kiri'
Magazine article from: New African; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...pursue self-destruction or, in other words, to commit hara-kiri, but to do so with the same philosophy as that of suicide...pursue self-destruction or, in other words, to commit hara-kiri, but to do so with the same philosophy as that of suicide...
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How to avoid heaping bowl of hara-kiri
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/5/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...such as inadvertently inviting your guests to commit hara-kiri. COS COB, Conn. Look who's coming to dinner. The...silent dismay at what to them was an invitation to commit hara-kiri. Axtell spent 30 years as vice president of world marketing...
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Soc: We're not guilty, we won't commit hara-kiri, says Domenech
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 11/20/2009; 251 words
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LOONY TOON!; Al rescues Kev's hara kiri defence.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/16/1996; ; 567 words
; Kevin Keegan slammed his "hara kiri" defenders after Alan Shearer had rescued Newcastle from...second round, first leg tie. But he admitted: "It was hara kiri at times but we're still in the driving seat. If we...
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HARA KIRI.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: US Banker; 10/1/2000; 680 words
; ...because Hawaii is so close to Japan that Bank of Hawaii's CEO Lawrence Johnson performed the corporate equivalent of hara kiri last month. Gee, even the Japanese don't do that any more. Yet the 59-year-old Johnson, who has been with the...
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Schoolboy hara-kiri.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 6/14/2002; 265 words
; A schoolboy committed hara-kiri in front of his class-mates after a bad test result. The 18-year-old died after copying the Japanese ritual suicide by stabbing himself 12 times in the chest at the school in Essen, Germany.
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LABOUR'S HARA-KIRI TENDENCY; MADNESS: The in-fighting that threatens plans for power.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 2/4/1997; 700+ words
; ...Bevanites, the Bennites, the Blairites ... But the faction that never goes away, especially in Scotland, is the Hara- Kiri Tendency - the political lemmings who prefer to commit suicide rather than win power. They might not see Labour policies...
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Swiss multimillionaire commits hara-kiri on Spain's Costa del Sol
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/23/2002; 322 words
; 00-00-0000 Dateline: MALAGA, Spain A Swiss multimillionaire who owned a climbing gear firm committed hara-kiri at his ranch on Spain's Costa del Sol, police and media reports said Thursday. The 49-year-old victim, identified by the...
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hara-kiri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hara-kiri [Jap.,=belly-cutting], the traditional...disembowelment prior to beheading. Voluntary hara-kiri was resorted to after a private misfortune...conduct of a living superior. Obligatory hara-kiri was abolished in 1868, but its voluntary...
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Hara-kiri
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Hara-kiri (Jap.). The means through which Japanese (Shinto and Zen) demonstrate mastery of death through seppuku , by cutting into the hara—the inner part of the body beneath the abdomen, which is believed to be the vital centre of life and control.
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seppuku
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
seppuku another term for hara-kiri ; the word is Japanese, and comes from setsu ‘cut’ + fuku ‘abdomen’.
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suicide
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
...moral norms, a view that no longer commands wide respect. The second case is the practice of ritual suicide in Japan ( hara kiri). This is a striking feature of Japanese culture that has no precedent in Indian Buddhism and is not sanctioned by mainstream...
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Suicide
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...of ahiṃsā (of doing no harm to a sentient being) makes suicide generally forbidden. Japanese hara-kiri ( seppuku ) was originally a social rather than specifically religious act, but its endorsement by Zen Buddhism gave...
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