Word: animus
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...Mohammad Khatemi’s continuation of blatant human rights abuses against women and homosexuals was edited to refer to homosexuals as “sodomites,” I wondered, “What on earth are the copy editors thinking?” Other than demonstrating absolute animus toward a certain group of individuals, nothing else can be expressed by that loaded term. And indeed, as an associate editor for The Harvard Salient, I have seen this so-called journal of conservative repute devolve into a state where it no longer expounds mainstream conservative thinking, but instead represents...
...face of such animus, the unconditional love and approval of American Christians is a great gift. The Democratic party, with its many Jewish activists, has traditionally supported Israel. But the Republicans have no such ethnic affinity. It is the Evangelicals, major stakeholders in the G.O.P., who have made it a bastion of pro-Israel and pro-Jewish sentiment. They make being on Israel's side as American as apple...
...such as "meddling" to describe Iranian involvement in Iraq - an accusation echoed by Sunni leaders inside Iraq and by the Sunni Arab regimes with which Secretary Rice has been meeting in recent days - the Shi'ite and Kurdish parties that lead Iraq's government don't share Washington's animus towards Tehran; in both cases they have close ties with Iran forged during years of exile and warfare...
...scene that night, interviewing witnesses and the alleged assailants, escorting Garcia to University Health Services for the treatment of bruises, encouraging Garcia to press charges the following Monday—but neither of the suspects left the scene in cuffs. The lack of an arrest drew some animus from campus leaders in the days following the incident...
...debate, which is now more of a moral/political one rather than a constitutional one, is whether punishing a person more solely because his offense was motivated by group animus...treats disfavored ideas as a basis for punishment in violation of liberal principles,” he wrote in an e-mail...