Word: behaviour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AUSTRALIA "There has been quite a tradition of American feminists tolerating in their elected allies behaviour that would in other circumstances earn condemnation and even ostracism." --Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald...
This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
These are the antagonists in the love match that Brookner sets up. George watches unblinkingly as his standards go down the drain. He also looks without flinching at the object of his fixation. She has ``an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour.'' An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends...
These are the antagonists in the love match that Brookner sets up. George watches unblinkingly as his standards go down the drain. He also looks without flinching at the object of his fixation. She has "an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour." An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with "the essential self." Confronted with one of his respectable female friends...
While he accuses lesbigay support groups of "pressuring the ambivalent to label themselves gay of lesbian." Lat ignores the infinitely more intense pressures on all students to conform to heterosexual norms of behaviour. Lat's suggestion that very few lesbian, gay or bisexual students remain in the closet at Harvard is contradicted by the numerous testimonies of those who find it impossible to come out until after they have graduated. Lat argues that one should be proud only of what one has personally accomplished. According to this restrictive view, I may be Chinese, but because I had no hand...