Word: anathema
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...project has been caught in a dispute between Yeltsin and the parliament over what kind of state structure to enshrine in the new basic law. Yeltsin wants a strong President, who will have a free hand to organize new government structures and appoint ministers. His whole approach is anathema to legislators who want to give parliament the power to control government appointments and to make the head of state a figurehead that Yeltsin supporters claim would be akin to the British Queen...
HENRY WALLACE (1944). Overshadowing Roosevelt's choice of a running mate was the suspicion that he might not live to the end of a fourth term. Vice President Wallace's advocacy of civil rights and his utopian rhetoric about a global New Deal made him anathema to big-city bosses and conservative Southern Democrats. F.D.R. toyed with the idea of picking Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to replace him, but finally settled on Missouri Senator Harry Truman...
...Enlightenment promulgated liberal principles of governance that could, at least in theory, be applied everywhere. The American and French revolutions were mounted in the name of equality and the brotherhood of man, ideals that were anathema to rulers and attractive to the vast majority of their subjects. Empire's days, or at least its decades, were numbered...
...William Colby. "Terrorists, nutty nationalists, fundamentalists and builders of weapons of mass destruction." But old habits die hard, and former enemies may have trouble joining forces, even when their interests coincide. To many in Washington, the idea of allying with an intelligence service still aggressively seeking Western technology is anathema. As well-trained spies know, the cloak of friendship and cooperation may conceal the dagger of danger and deceit...
...business leaders who oppose spending on the environment, and on the other conservationists whose support he courted in 1988 -- and the trip loomed as a potential failure. Bush would neither get credit at home for attending the summit nor win points for quashing the pro- green proposals that were anathema to business. As of early last week, many inside the White House couldn't explain why he was bothering to make the trip...