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A pariah state (also called an international pariah or a global pariah) is a nation considered to be an outcast in the international community. A pariah state may face international isolation , sanctions or even an invasion by nations who find its policies, actions, or even its very existence unacceptable.
Font for Cagots in the church of Bassoues, dating from the 15th century Pariahs of Madras, a German engraving, 1870s. In Ancient Greece, the Athenians had a procedure known as ostracism in which all citizens could write a person's name on a shard of broken pottery (called ostraka) and place it in a large container in a public place. [2]
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This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms. However, they are still in current use in articles about previous military periods.
All members marching turn by 45° to the right, done by rotation on the left ball and the right heel. Left incline (U.S.:Column half-left, march), is a half turn to the left, usually used when a flight, squad, platoon, etc. is not in its proper alignment. All members marching turn by 45° to the left, done by rotation on the right ball and the ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Pariah, post-1987 name of the heavy metal band Satan "Pariah" by Black Sabbath, bonus track on the 2013 album 13 "Pariah" by Danielle Dax, from the 1984 album Jesus Egg That Wept "Pariah" by Lamb of God, from the 2000 album New American Gospel "Pariah" by dredg, title track of the 2009 album The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
Moffat says this led to pariah entering the English language as "a synonym for the socially ostracised and the morally depraved". [33] Iyothee Thass felt that Paraiyar was a slur, and campaigned against its usage. During the 1881 census of India, he requested the government to record the community members under the name Aboriginal Tamils.