Word: assaulted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, their opposition helped dissuade Bush from nominating Gonzales to the Supreme Court and, over the years, they have regularly disparaged him as too soft on key issues such as affirmative action and abortion. But as the President's popularity and political clout continue to decline, the group's assault on the Attorney General is designed to rally a growing number of Republicans who seem to hope that Gonzales will finally step aside. His testimony, however, gives no indication that he intends...
...polluted, and the stigma of the accusations—false though they may have been—is permanently grafted to their names. Even beyond the gnarled ruins this case made of its participants, there lies on its behalf a lasting scar on the American attitude toward sexual assault. The discussion of the crime here was undermined by the fervor about the case and its ensuing collapse. This dilutes the public understanding of the crime and its pervasiveness, and represents a strike against the just resolution of genuine instances of sexual assault. Of course, what’s done...
...time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach to foreign relations is rapidly undermining our international credibility and has all but obliterated the moral high ground we struggled so hard to achieve through our transition to democracy...
...candles dimly lit their faces, students tried to illuminate a normally obscure area of campus discourse.Though they told stories of sexual assault, they were not the victims. The authors of these sometimes graphic accounts had chosen to remain anonymous, even at the launch of a magazine created to broadcast such stories.The anonymity that the undergraduates wanted to preserve emblematized the ambiguity of vocalizing experiences seen as stigmatizing.The launch of “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard” drew 75 students to Kirkland’s Junior Common Room last night. Undegraduates munched on cheese...
...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...