Word: confrontational
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...opinions and viewpoints." Bollinger issued a statement on Friday afternoon: Let me reaffirm: In a society committed to free speech, there will inevitably be times when speakers use words that anger, provoke, and even cause pain. Then, more than ever, we are called on to maintain our courage to confront bad words with better words. That is the hallmark of a university and of our democratic society. It is also one of our central safeguards against the impulses of intolerance that always threaten to engulf our commitment to proper respect for every person...
...whose main activity in Gaza these days is stealing cars and kidnapping. "Our image in the streets is very bad," concedes a senior Fatah official. "We are seen as self-interested and collaborators [with Israel], not fighters for Palestine. And this is what Abbas is ignoring. You can't confront your political adversaries without the support of the masses...
...stations. “We are fighting a war against people who have as their objective the overthrow of the United States government,” Romney said in the statement. “Given that kind of threat, we have to adjust our homeland security strategies to confront it.” The MBTA briefly implemented the system two years ago to address possible security threats to the Democratic National Convention. A MBTA spokesman, Joe Pesaturo, said that the policy was well-received at that time. “People have said over and over that safety is their...
...number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just to look at it, forces them to confront their nightmares. But these rituals will be replaced very soon with the traditions of autumn - harvest is looming; the fields need to be cut. They?ll be returning to work quicker than most of us could imagine...
People have different strengths and weaknesses, and my strength was not the ability to confront people. My strength was much more in the ability to evaluate where business was going, and getting it to grow by encouraging all the people in the company to make the decision pretty fast about who should stay and who should go. Because when you don't make those decisions, nobody knows better that you're not making the sensible decision fast enough than the people who are working in the company...