The Idea of Liberty – Summer 2011 Dr Martin O’Neill martin.oneill[@]york.ac.uk Lecture 2: Positive and Negative Liberty 1. William E. Connolly: Liberty as an ‘Essentially-Contested Concept’ • See Connolly‚ The Terms of Political Discourse (1983)‚ and the relevant excerpt in CKS (i.e. Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology‚ ed. Ian Carter‚ Matthew Kramer and Hillel Steiner (Blackwell‚ 2007).) • The idea of an “essentially contested concept” – a concept that cannot be specified in detail in advance
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Q.1) What are the salient features of the Australian Anti-terrorism Legislation passed in 2004. Explain. Answer: Three anti-terrorism bills were enacted in the Australian Parliament in 2004 by a Coalition government with the Labor opposition’s support. These were the Anti-terrorism bill‚ 2004‚ the Anti-terrorism bill (No 2)‚ 2004 and the Anti-terrorism bill (No 3)‚ 2004. Anti-terrorism bill‚ 2004 The Attorney-General‚ Philip Ruddock‚ introduced the Anti-terrorism bill‚ 2004 on 31 March. He
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AKNOWLEDGEMENT Professional career of a quantity surveyor is depended on the cost controlling of the project. Main professional characteristic of the quantity surveyor is cost estimating to analyze the project cost of a project correctly whether it is a contractor’s point of view or client’s point of view. Therefore‚ being a professional quantity surveyor‚ knowledge in basic economic principles is very important feature. Economics is related to any industry in the word. Construction industry
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Objectives of the study The objectives of this term paper are as below: 1. To understand the concept of PPP and applicable form. 2. To gain an understanding on issues those are important for developing PPP. 3. To identify the prevailing status and challenges for implementation. Statement of the Problem: The main problems of PPP are follows: * In
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LITTORAL ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE CONCEPT Naval Doctrine Command 1 May 1998 Table of Contents Executive Summary Purpose ans Scope Littoral ASW Coordinated‚ Multiplatform ASW Concept Capabilities and Constraints Conclusions and Recommendations Introduction Purpose Background National Objectives Joint and Naval Objectives Littoral ASW Objectives Anticipated Battlespace and Adversaries "The ASW Challenge Introduction The Environment Threat Assessment Stealth Mobility and
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CHAPTER 2 BASIC CONCEPTS OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AGGREGATES Introduction 2.1 Various concepts of national income and related aggregates used in national accounts connote a particular meaning which may not necessarily conform to the one used in common parlance. It is‚ therefore‚ necessary that these are made familiar to the users to enable them to appreciate these in right perspective. It is with this objective that it has been considered necessary to refer to these in this publication. The basic
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State‚ Government and Law 1. State An entity can be regarded as a state if it satisfies the following essentials of statehood 1. Population 2. Territory 3. Government 4. Sovereignty or Supremacy State can be unitary (only one govt. throughout the territory); federal(distribution of powers between central and state governments); monarchy(hereditary king as the ruler); republic(the head of the state is not a monarch but an elected person) etc. The ultimate aim of the state is
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MONEY LAUNDERING: INDIA AND THE WORLD Table of Contents Chapter I: Introduction Money laundering refers to the conversion of money that is illegally obtained‚ so as to make it appear to originate from a legitimate source.1 Article 1 of the EC Directive defines the term money laundering as “the conversion of property‚ knowing that such property is derived from serious crime‚ for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or of assisting any person who
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CHAPTER I BACKGROUND Marks & Spencer Plc is going to enter a new market for their biscuit section in Brunei Darussalam. Brunei Darussalam is a country in South East Asia with great market potential as they have a big amount of GDP. They are going to make an innovation in order to attract the costumer in Brunei. The innovation they are willing to make is making a new biscuits flavour that suits Bruneian. To enter this new market M&S chooses to do indirect-exporting‚ by selling their biscuits to
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Australian Society for Social Sciences – Volume 3‚ Number 2 (2014) The Next 25 Years of Malaysian Society [2015-2040] Shamim Zia‚ MBA American Skills Training and Team Building Asia‚ Malaysia ABSTRACT History is a series of generational cycles which includes various seasons‚ which were first introduced by William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1991. They brought the concept of a symbiotic relationship between history and generations which reveals itself in a four-stage cycle called turnings.
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