Word: anathemas
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...control the territory. From being a folk who (it was condescendingly said) worried about nothing other than the state of their pocketbooks, Hong Kong people have developed a taste for public protest?over free elections, real estate schemes, the environment, even teachers' rights. That form of political expression is anathema to China's leaders. "There is a cause for concern for them if protests in Hong Kong set a precedent," says Michael Enright, a business professor at the University of Hong Kong, "or if the push for democratic elections sets a precedent...
...just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country where private property is ideological anathema. "You can buy anything and everything in the market," says Park, a trader who sells televisions she brings in from China. (Like all North Koreans that TIME talked to for this story, Park spoke on condition that her real name not be used.) "Everybody wants to be in business...
...usual five (only the second time a bench of such a size has sat since the World War II), identified an especially salient moral wrong inherent in the unlawful detentions. Lord Nicholls, one of the judges, said, “Indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial is anathema in any country which observes the rule of law. It deprives the detained person of the protection a criminal trial is intended to afford.” Certainly this applies in the United States, which shares a common legal tradition with its former colonial master...
...over socialization.” Shauman’s is perfectly legitimate criticism, hardly rendering the question of innate differences invalid for discussion or further research. In fact, it is a good question to study precisely because different researchers view it differently. Opposition to inquiry into unanswered questions is anathema to the core principles of academia...
...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...