Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.
The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
