Word: anathemas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much effort. In a world where output has increased over the past twenty years primarily due to a fivefold expansion of the labor supply, according to International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook 2007, increased labor mobility—rather, increased human mobility—is still anathema to both the political left and right in developed countries. Even though a dramatic increase in immigration would probably alleviate world poverty and generate wealth more than any other policy, faster flows are still seen as too risky and unguarded by the left, and too extreme by the right. Although...
...operas throughout the 1990s. But her career took a hit in 2002, when the public learned of her troubled marriage and subsequent divorce from Cho Sung Min, who plays baseball for the big leagues across the sea in Japan. After her divorce in 2004, the mother of two became anathema to producers and broadcasters who, according to industry observers, were and still are reluctant to put single mothers in starring or prominent roles. After four years of struggling, Choi's career had begun to pick up when her body was found in her bathroom in southern Seoul. She apparently hanged...
...Haney introduced a resolution in the Maricopa County party that censured McCain "for a lot of things he had done that would take our freedoms away," as Haney puts it. Back then Haney wasn't focused on immigration but campaign finance reform, another McCain priority that was anathema to bedrock conservatives. Haney's resolution passed, and that, he says, is when McCain and his allies really began to take aim at the state's conservative grass roots...
...performance unless they are involved in an accident. In terms of traffic engineering, Vanderbilt endorses commonsensical solutions: roundabouts over intersections (they cause drivers to pay more attention), congestion pricing (fewer cars on the road) and the "all-purpose solution to safer roads" (lower speed limits). Each is, of course, anathema to freedom-loving, fast-driving, car-obsessed Americans...
Suspicion of irony and satire, in fact, is a great unifier of the left and the right. Daniel Radosh, in his book Rapture Ready!, about Christian pop culture, explains why irony is anathema to Fundamentalist entertainers: it is too dangerous to introduce the slightest possibility that someone might not get the joke and thus might be led to moral error. Better safe than funny...