Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham is correct to point out the illegality of the protesters' actions, but the real issue is whether they are justifiable as civil disobedience. The doctrine of civil disobedience does permit the use of extra-legal means to accomplish praiseworthy ends, but the protesters in question have crossed accepted bounds. Only peaceful forms of protest which break no laws, or those that break immoral laws are justifiable. These protesters, however, clearly broke laws of crucial value, as a ploy to get publicity...
...this specific instance the protesters were wrong, but that does not mean that all acts of civil disobedience are unjustifiable. If the goal is for the University to divest completely, then activists should choose forms of protest both more expedient and more justifiable than trespass or illegal restraint to accomplish...
...task is to create a new political system replacing that established by Marcos, to revive the economy sunk in deep depression and debt and to bring about a more equitable distribution of the nation's wealth. All of which she has to accomplish in the face of a serious armed uprising in the countryside...
...reading is a time to reflect about war and peace, not necessarily to accomplish anything concrete," Bok said...
...appealing enough to both small-town Republicans and big-city wheeler-dealers to give him the 1964 presidential nomination, although he was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. "It never bothered me. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. We broke the Eastern Establishment's hold on the G.O.P. We moved it westward." The campaign also inspired another Western conservative by the name of Ronald Reagan...