Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aquino himself admits he has been asked "not to rock the boat." If one calls the State Department to ask for comment on the most recent bombings, one gets the standard entree: "We abhor and condemn the use of violence for political purposes." If one asks the next logical question, namely, does martial law itself not in fact represent the "use of violence for political purposes" or at least repression, you will get the even more prevalent response: "No comment...
...Frazier Meade, country director for Philippine Affairs at the State Department, says he doesn't "want to get involved in the competition between Marcos and Aquino," adding, "We abhor and deplore any tendencies toward violence...
Danny-Joe Driscoll San Francisco As an Estonian whose parents fled So viet persecution during World War II, I abhor the Soviet government's repression of human rights. Still, its people are hu man beings and deserve to be respected as such, if not by their leaders, then by us. It's high time for Americans to take the trouble to look with interest at life in the U.S.S.R...
...defend the principle of free speech even for those with whom we deeply disagree, and we abhor the district's attorney's action. But the Quincy House Film Society should never have allowed the issue to become a legal one. Because controversy over the film had been flaring for more than two weeks, the society, Quincy House Master Charles Dunn and other College authorities had more then enough time to agree not to screen the film--solely on moral grounds. While "legal" action must never hinder First Amendment right, in this case proper moral judgment should have obviated the legal...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a group of students from very diverse social and ethnic backgrounds who come together specifically to put on a show. We abhor discrimination against individuals for reasons of sex, race or religion. We also condemn the practice of psychological discrimination, whereby women or minority groups are associated by the media with certain stereotypical characteristics. We find offensive recent films such as Cruising, which portrays homosexuals as abnormally violent, or television situation comedies which stereotype numerous segments of modern American society. Our characters do anything but that; rather, they poke fun at the stereotypes themselves by illustrating...