Word: boundingly
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Last week another dramatic scene took place on Birmingham's streets, but its impact on the nation's troubled race relations is far from clear. With a chain draped symbolically over his shoulders and his wrists bound by steel handcuffs, Mayor Richard Arrington marched with hundreds of supporters from the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed by a racially inspired bombing in 1963. Their destination: the federal courthouse three blocks away, where Arrington surrendered and was taken to the minimum-security prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery to begin serving a prison term...
...principle that an individual may be bound by a higher moral authority, beyond what the statutes provide, was established in West Germany decades ago, during trials of former Nazi leaders. Like Seidel, many Germans would apply the same theory in judging the discredited communist regime. But there are troubling doubts about the fairness of the principle or how it is applied. That was abundantly clear in Heinrich's case: right after the verdict, the prosecution joined the defense in vowing to appeal the sentence as too harsh...
Some literary critics argue that a book does not have artistic merit if it does not require careful reading. True, this book is not bound to show up on any English course syllabus. However, this book certainly has value; if bogged down by work or by worries, this book is a perfect way to make you smile at life...
...didn't take. Many theaters, bound by restrictive real estate contracts, will not show NC-17 movies, and many newspapers won't run the ads. The majors continue to require directors to deliver films that will be rated no worse than R. So the rating really meant "No Change"; not a single big-studio film since Henry & June has been released NC-17. And for directors wanting the same freedom as their European counterparts, it means "No Chance...
Other revelations are bound to provoke more controversy. Psychology tests, for instance, consistently support the notion that men and women perceive the world in subtly different ways. Males excel at rotating three-dimensional objects in their head. Females prove better at reading emotions of people in photographs. A growing number of scientists believe the discrepancies reflect functional differences in the brains of men and women. If true, then some misunderstandings between the sexes may have more to do with crossed wiring than cross-purposes...