Word: condemnations
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...coincide with the 51st anniversary of Hitler's arrival in the city at the head of an occupying army. He called this an "anti- event," intended to counterbalance the dark memories of 1939 and mark a reconciliation. To speak with disdain about Germans, Havel told his countrymen, "to condemn them only because they are Germans, to be afraid of them only because of that, is the same as to be anti-Semitic." But, he also reminded the Germans, it is their continuing responsibility to show Europe and the world that there is nothing to fear...
...physician, and one of the things I understand is the importance of confidentiality," Nuzzo says, "Whether Barney Frank wants to reveal the results of an AIDS test is his business, and his business alone. It should not become a political matter of public debate, and I condemn any attempt...
...conscious deployment of a double standard directed at the Jewish state and at no other state in the world, the willingness systematically to condemn the Jewish state for things others are not condemned for -- this is not a higher standard. It is a discriminatory standard. And discrimination against Jews has a name too. The word for it is anti-Semitism...
...quiescent on abortion but so aggressive on another complex moral matter -- seven times vetoing bills that would bring back the state death penalty.) Still, some caveats are in order. One is that charity as well as justice should guide the hierarchs into correctly stating positions they condemn. Both O'Connor and Vaughan accused Cuomo of advocating "the right of a woman to kill a child." A fairer statement would be that the Governor did not see how he could legally deny a woman what the nation's highest court has decreed to be her right. Second, the bishops have acted...
...even bolder line, urging the plenum to understand the Lithuanian moves "in the context of European and world affairs." Said he: "I am resolutely against any sanctions." That was certainly not the view of Ligachev and other party veterans. They pushed for a change of wording that would "condemn the actions of the incumbent leadership of the Lithuanian party, aimed at splitting and weakening the unity of the Communist Party and the Soviet federation." A compromise was fashioned, incorporating the criticisms of the Ligachev camp and Lithuanian party loyalists...