Word: commits
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...mercy applies to the powerful." Jesus, however,stressed that the more powerful a person is, the more accountable he is for wrongdoing. "To whom much is given, of him will much be required," he warned the Apostles according to the Gospel of Luke, "and of him to whom men commit much, they will demand the more." A surprisingly tough editorial in the Catholic Standard and Times, weekly newspaper of the conservative Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, voices the prevailing discontent: "It is discouraging for law-abiding citizens to see that presidential duplicity goes unpunished and that the considerable perquisites...
DANIELSON: The offenses charged against the President in this article are uniquely presidential offenses. No one else can commit them. You or I, the most lowly citizen can violate any of the statutes in our criminal code. But only the President can violate the oath of office of the President. Only the President can abuse the powers of the office of the President ... They are crimes or offenses against the very structure of the state...
Republican McClory, too, rejected the argument that an abuse of power must also violate a law before it is impeachable. "I think we can agree that the President should not commit crimes," he argued. But the impeachment process is not akin to "a district courthouse to hold the President accountable for statutory violations of the criminal law." It is meant to set a higher standard "in constitutional terms." Added McClory: "There is a clear violation of the President's responsibility when he permits multiple acts of wrongdoing by large numbers of those who surround...
...finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with a young, tough-faced Italian militiaman in the international troops' barracks. The gap of language, of nationality, of blood and class background that separates them vanishes when Orwell reads in his face that he would do anything--even commit murder--for a friend. "With his shabby uniform and fierce pathetic face," Orwell writes, "he typifies for me the special atmosphere of that time. He is bound up with all my memories of that period of the war--the red flags in Barcelona, the gaunt trains full of shabby soldiers creeping...
...always be drawn from any given fact, Hungate suggested that "if someone brought an elephant through that door and I said 'That's an elephant,' someone would say, 'That's an inference. It could be a mouse with a glandular condition.' " There were sharp personal exchanges as the commit tee grew restive. Latta irrelevantly criticized Counsel Jenner for having publicly supported the repeal of antiprostitution legis lation, and Latta in turn was scolded by Ohio Democrat John Seiberling for his improper remarks...