Word: clingingly
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...repressive at home, who locks up judges, imposes martial law and amends the constitution on his own with the endorsement of his handpicked judges. You know he is a man who is arbitrary, a man who has no respect for rule of law, he just wants to cling to power, a man who was the cause of a total breakdown in law and order, and a man who is absolutely economical with the truth. He's a liar. One thing I would like the Americans to realize is that you cannot have democracy without a free judiciary. In the West...
...administrators have been tight-lipped on this issue. Not to strive for transparency is to implicitly recognize the charged nature of the policy. The policy was implemented without consulting community members at large and without correcting the discrepancy in resources this creates between the genders. Administrators who wish to cling on to this notion that this is an equality issue should, at the very least, make the situation equal by holding men-only hours in another gym at the same time...
...offing. And that could unlock the lips of shareholders who have filed suit against the bank, but have thus far shied away from calling for Bouton's ouster until the crisis is over. Indeed, it is, perhaps perversely, the gravity of SocGen's situation that makes some prefer to cling to Bouton for now. CGT union official Marchet says he opposes Bouton's ouster because "it would necessarily signal the arrival of someone from the outside to liquidate" the bank. SocGen's board and employees - along with much of the French public - would prefer to postpone that day of reckoning...
...become a refugee camp for 9,000 Kikuyus. "Since their wealth depends on power, our leaders are never ready to admit defeat." Incumbents like Kibaki, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni are among those who tried to alter their country's constitutions--some successfully--to cling to power. African voters are to some extent complicit in the undermining of democracy. When given an opportunity to vote out one corrupt leader, they often elect another, hoping he will be more generous with his ill-gotten gains...
...public Christmas display—no Nativity crèche, no Advent wreath lightings—received any such attention, in the campus daily or on email lists. Surely there are still Christians on campus who cling tightly to their Christmastime traditions, but theirs do not figure meaningfully in the multicultural mélange that dominates Harvard this time of year...