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During both World Wars, political parties collapsed or were torn apart over the draft issue, and ethnicity seeped into the equation, with most French Canadians opposing conscription and a majority of English Canadians accepting it. [42] During both wars, riots and draft evasion followed the passage of the draft laws. [42]
In ethics, evasion is an act that deceives by stating a true statement that is irrelevant or leads to a false conclusion.For instance, a man knows that another man is in a room in the building because he heard him, but in answer to a question, says "I have not seen him", thereby avoiding both lying and making a revelation.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 November 2024. Look up dogging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dogging may refer to: Dogging (sexual slang), a British English slang term for engaging in public sex while others watch Dogging: A Love Story, the original title of Public Sex (film), a 2009 British romantic comedy Dogging, a slang ...
The term was translated into English from Latin in the 16th century. The Latin version, petitio principii ' asking for the starting point ' , can be interpreted in different ways. Petitio (from peto ), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means ' assuming ' or ' postulating ' , but in the older classical sense means ...
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Henry Fuseli's painting of Odysseus facing the choice between Scylla and Charybdis, 1794–1796. Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". [1]
The act of cattle-raiding is quite ancient, first attested over seven thousand years ago, [5] and is one of the oldest-known aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture, being seen in inscriptions on artifacts such as the Norse Golden Horns of Gallehus [6] and in works such as the Old Irish Táin Bó Cúailnge ("Cattle Raid of Cooley"), the paṇis of the Rigveda, the Mahabharata cattle raids and ...
Copenhaver's debut novel, Dodging and Burning, was published by Pegasus Books in 2018. [17] It is a mystery set in a small Virginia town where "three friends—Jay Greenwood, Bunny Prescott, and Ceola Bliss—spend the summer of 1945 trying to solve the apparent murder of a young woman who Jay photographed."