Word: avowal
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...upwards of three billion dollars from the U.S. government—while we correctly enforce the right of Jewish refugees to recover European properties from which they were displaced in the mid-20th century? If we do not recognize the equality of Palestinian and Jewish rights, how can we avow the equality of the rights belonging to Tibetans and Han Chinese, Sahrawis and Moroccans, Africans and Americo-Liberians, women and men, blacks and whites, gays and straights...
...thrilled with our choices for the Democratic nominee for president, and we publicly avow support for the best candidate in the field, Barack Obama...
...pander to popular prejudices. Despite the competitive investment-bank recruiting process and their selective hiring, it is de rigueur for Harvard opinion-makers to cast aspersions at them. As they submit their résumés in droves, Harvard students only sheepishly admit their interest in finance, repeatedly avow not to “sell out,” and abjure any attraction to filthy lucre. Surely, earning a pay check, in whichever way one chooses to do so, comes with its attendant drudgery: It is the fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that...
Friedman continues the informal mode of popular scholarship that earned him acclaim. Exclamation marks are everywhere, and Friedman coins several clever and useful monikers. “Developing Countries Anonymous,” for instance, expresses the need for underdeveloped countries to engage in self-reflection, openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence...
Toshiba's DVD executives cheerfully avow that they spurned the Blu-ray consortium's advances, deciding to develop their own HD-DVD technology instead. The proud victor over Sony in setting the standards for the first generation of DVDs in the 1990s, Toshiba is in no mood to concede its lead. Toshiba team leader Hisashi Yamada, a key player in the first DVD war, seems to delight in playing the role of the spoiler yet again in the face of what many at Toshiba perceive as Sony's arrogance. "The way of Sony is very simple," says Yamada. "'Our format...