Word: anathemas
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...decades, religion was anathema to all good Soviets. Did not Marx teach that it was the "opium of the people"? Lenin himself wrote that the Russian Orthodox Church had to be suppressed, its treasure confiscated. But last week the hold of the atheistic Communist Party loosened a bit more as the state strengthened religious freedoms. With the Orthodox Patriarch, Alexei II, and other religious leaders watching, the Supreme Soviet, by a vote of 341 to 1, gave preliminary approval to a law that forbids the government to restrict "the study, financing or propagandizing" of religion...
...transport system currently delivers 13 million barrels per day to and from U.S. refineries. At peak output, the SPR can pump only about 3.5 million barrels per day, and that only for three months. Then it's gone. Without stringent conservation measures--ideological anathema to Bush and his predecessor--the SPR won't last very long. What does Bush intend to do when the U.S. has used up the SPR? Won't prices creep up again (assuming they fall in the first place...
...unlikely to be presented with an accord when he returns to Washington. As the talks began, Democrats suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich, are calling for tax cuts to blunt the edge of a recession. G.O.P. leaders responded with a call for a cut in capital gains taxes, which Democrats adamantly oppose, along with higher levies on tobacco and alcoholic beverages...
...capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top," Illustrate;" be specific," etc? They mean it The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book 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...
Secession is a fighting word in American history, and territorial aggrandizement has been anathema to the North American political experiment ever since the settlers reached the Pacific. They had left behind two systems of government that have brought grief as well as benefit to mankind: empire and the nation-state. Imperialism, which has been around for millenniums, is based on one people's conquering, ruling, often suppressing others. The nation-state, an arrangement that came into its own in the 16th century as the Holy Roman Empire began to disintegrate, sounded like a good idea at the time: people...