“…In this first episode, viewers see how the purely religious tradition of the icon soared toward abstraction in Russia, influencing the birth of modern art in the early 1900s, and then helped legitimize secular political power in the Soviet era. Audiences witness the rededication of a monastery that had been used as a military barracks. …”

“…Some fear that Europe could embark into a decade of "secular stagnation" like Japan in the recent past. …”

“…Yet despite this heterogeneity, most European countries suffered a prolonged period of economic slowdown which raised concerns about the risk of a secular stagnation in Europe. This book focuses on labour productivity in Europe, one of the main drivers of growth and prosperity. …”

“…Until the arrival of the Italians, he was Chief of Military Investigation at the G.H.Q. of the Second Army Corps of the North; before the Civil War, he was an official of the Ministry of Labour, and Secretary of the Secular Schools. He lost a child in a Santander air raid: he was forced to send two of his children to England and one to Belgium. …”

“…Even in the United States, where the welfare state is far more developed, secular NGOs and faith-based organizations are critical components of social safety nets. …”

“…Some causes of the productivity puzzle pre-date the crisis, including low tangible investment, too rapid expansion of financial services, weak innovation in the manufacturing sector, and a secular decline of oil and gas industries. This Working Paper relates to the 2018 OECD Economic Survey of the United-Kingdom (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-united-kingdom.htm)."…”

“…This new edition is informed by such important recent developments as the Great Recession, the strains on the European Union and the Euro, the challenges of public and private debt, the successes and setbacks to emerging markets, changes to labor markets along with the increased attention to inequality, the debates on secular stagnation and its implications for conventional and unconventional monetary policy, the re-regulation of the financial sector, the debt overhang in both the public and the private sector."…”

“…The tax is assumed to be returned to producers in such a way that aggregate employment remains constant, so the focus of the analysis is on the structural, rather than the secular, implications of mitigation policy for employment growth. …”

“…The undeniable economic injury suffered by the population of Biscay as a result of the suppression of the fiscal secular privilege constituted, according to London, the spiritual and material basis of an enduring tacit resistance of the Basque people to Franco. …”

“…The religious borderlines of the confessionalization and secularization of European culture and societies : results and perspectives of my cooperation with István György Tóth / Heinz Schilling -- The value of foreign sources for the understanding of national history / Charles Kecskeméti -- Hungary and Bosnia, 1387-1463 : between stereotypes and new interpretations / Dubravko Lovrenović -- pt. …”