Word: compassable
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...Scholars point to Islamic philosophy and science as deeply influencing the European Renaissance, a primary foundation of later Western thought. Much of modern science and technology draws from Arabic origins—numerals, algebra, trigonometry, navigation—as well as Chinese innovations—paper, printing and the compass. Gandhian ideals of satyagraha as expressed through the civil disobedience movements of African-Americans have further contributed to Western liberal thinking...
...said a strong moral compass is required not only for corporate leadership but for the enrichment of employees’ lives...
...undeniably satisfying feeling, watching a vainglorious icon fall from the good graces of his faithfully devoted. And when you’re talking about a particularly obnoxious public figure—one that preaches to millions daily—operating under the pretense of being a virtuous moral compass, it’s healthy to expose hypocrisy that has been denied for all too long. Now, in the wake of two consecutive—and very public—transgressions, even the most intractable of Rush Limbaugh fans has to do at least a little second guessing...
...rainy day in September of my sophomore year, I spent the better share of a day running back and forth between my third-floor room in Currier and the courtyard along Garden Street with a pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as I wrestled our satellite dish into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional’ orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips...
...government says. Conservative M.P. Alan Duncan, shadow foreign minister, asked to compare Campbell's role with that of previous image makers, replies, "How much do you know about Dr. Goebbels?" and then, more seriously, says, "He's a very competent propagandist; none better. But he's lost his compass bearings on the truth. What we have seen is the sloganizing of British political debate, the reduction of all argument into positioning and language crafting." Peter Oborne, author of a judicious 1999 biography of Campbell whose attitudes have since hardened, says: "This government had so much good will in 1997. Alastair...