Courageous Conservatives PAC, a federal political action committee in the United States of America, was first established in 2015 to help conservative candidates win election against moderate candidates. Christopher Ekstrom, a Dallas-based Republican investor, chairs the PAC.
Flexibility or pliability is a property of matter or an object that indicates its ability to deform. A flexible object allows deformation more easily than a less flexible one. Stiffness is the opposite of flexibility.
Various substances are flexible. The degree of flexibility depends on temperature. Flexible materials can be made of natural rubber, plastic, or a mixture of these. Such materials are used for a wide variety of applications, including:
- seals in the form of rings and tire material
- inner tubes and tires for all kinds of vehicles
- sports equipment: balls, mats, shuttlecocks, etc.
- all kinds of footwear
- hoses for various industries, from garden hoses to hoses in the chemical industry
Pax Praetoriana (or Pax Pretoriana) refers to the relative stability of modern South Africa and the (economically and politically) dominant foreign policy of the country towards the African continent and its encouragement of stable, accountable, democratic governments in other African states. The term Pax Nigeriana is sometimes used in relation to Nigeria's similar status. Both these terms derive from the expression Pax Romana – the Roman peace. The term Praetoriana also derives from Pretoria, the administrative capital city of South Africa.
Critics of South African foreign policy (including political allies of the ANC such as the trade union organization COSATU), especially under former president Thabo Mbeki, point to domestic problems such as unemployment, crime and the scourge of AIDS that remain unresolved, and question the value of the ANC's policy of "quiet diplomacy" towards the Zimbabwean government during its current period of repressive rule.
The term has also been used to describe the dominant position of South Africa over its neighbors in the pre-1994 era, forcing agreements such as the Nkomati Accord between South Africa and Mozambique and a non-aggression treaty with Eswatini.
Deep time is geologic time.
The term is also used in the following ways:
- Joanna Macy uses the term deep time to refer to the practice of using guided meditation to visualize one's ancestors and descendants
- Michael Murphy (author) uses the term deep time to refer to the experience of unusual freedom within time or unawareness of time, known to psychologists as the flow state