Word: abhor
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...forgivable, Condit has let pass all his opportunities to play the innocent. An early admission of the sex, a loud rejection of guilt, and an energetic and public search for the missing girl, might have diverted the media into a less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...Clear all those hurdles, and there's still the fact that donors abhor a vacuum. McCain has been the first to admit that soft money was already supposed to be illegal - making it illegal again won't change the fact that it won't be long before lawyers and money, like nature, will find a way back in to the political process...
There are many fallacies to the comments made by Harvard officials against corporate sponsorship. First, I doubt Harvard's argument that alumni abhor the idea of corporate sponsorship. Such abhorrence, if it exists, probably lies only in a small group of older alums...
...very short space of time, they have seen a large amount of their heritage disappear. At the same time that the Blair government is banning foxhunting, it's also banning the use of nonmetric measurements, like feet, inches, miles and gallons, in favor of European measurements that most Brits abhor. Blair has reformed the House of Lords to gut it of its historical privileges. He is busy merging the British armed services into a pan-European force. After the next election, he is all but committed to abolishing the pound sterling in favor of the euro...