Word: abhors
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Wylie finally approved the bridge, saying," As much as I abhor what they're doing, I have to vote for the bridge...
...There are a great number of Catholics who are anti-abortion without being members of the Right-to-Life political movement. Certainly, we consider abortion to be a moral outrage, and take that fact into consideration when casting our votes. We are not, however, single-issue voters; I myself abhor the single-interest politics that is exemplified by the pro-lifers and most other special-interest groups. So one must remember that the political pro-life movement that is the subject of Ms. Idelson's review is neither representative nor typical of most anti-abortionists. There are over 40 million...
...acts of violence have involved disputes over observance of Jewish law. The youths are more zealous in their beliefs and more pugnacious than their elders, who are often eager to urge them on. The new militants regard other Orthodox Jews as compromisers and secular Israelis as grievous sinners and abhor proselytizing by the small group of Christian missionaries in the country...
...insist and insist again by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...would associate themselves with those who actually "did it to her." But quite more than a few know what it is to be caught in the middle of an all-male show of power and coercion, and thus to be complicit, even at the fringes, in something their consciences abhor...