Word: combative
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...constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund it. Even if the UC doesn’t organize the opt-out process, it has a responsibility to those students who want to opt-out of its fee to combat this disturbing trend...
...just flip-flopped on the topic? It was more complicated. Imagine if all our public discourse was conducted in the language of legal combat. His was. Learned argument did not aim to represent an opponent's position fairly, but to make it look as ridiculous as possible. Part of his rhetoric regarding Jews reflected this. Also, Christians using harsh language against Jews were often actually aiming at Christian opponents, whom they painted as darkly as possible by comparing them to hostile caricatures of Jews...
Dybul’s presentation centered largely on the vision, goal, and results of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an initiative launched by President Bush in 2003 to combat the global epidemic...
...preventing this male violence. “The reason we are presented here with civilized men behaving well is because we live in a society with important constraints applied through education, through upbringing,” Wrangham said. Haig also noted the importance of judicial restraints to help combat this violence. Yet Braxton, at the end of the night, stressed moving beyond the legal realm. “We often move to policy, sanctions for bad behaviors, incentives for good things. But most of us as individuals don’t have a lot of influence in policy...
...claimed some of the fighters had used narcotics to numb themselves to pain as death approached. Though he understands the strategic logic of assailants using stimulants to overcome fatigue as their attack wears on - conventional armies, including the U.S. military, have used stimulants to counter combat fatigue - he does not believe the stern Salafist prohibition of soporifics would be ignored as the end loomed...