Word: consigner
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Before we venture into another Vietnam, we ought to ask ourselves if we are ready to consign America's youth to such a fate...
Those who are willing to bear this risk (or to consign others to bear this risk) would be wise to remember that the foremost duty of the United States government is to its own people. In this case, American soldiers ought not to be expended for the sake of a people and a nation that have absolutely nothing to do with ours...
After all, the relative truth of creationist and evolutionary theory is not susceptible to a vote. Nor are the psychological mechanisms of childhood learning. To consign the academic fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...
...weren't for that, the Judiciary Committee might have found a way to evaluate Professor Anita Hill's charges against Judge Clarence Thomas confidentially. But it was easier to consign her to the category of she- devils, like Fanne Foxe, Elizabeth Ray, Tai Collins, Donna Rice, who rise from a public official's past to bring down a man simply for being, well, a man. In this postgraduate Skull and Bones, most of whose members hardly need to worry where their next million is coming from, it is hard to empathize with someone worried enough about her career that...
Imagine revising Genesis. In the new version Noah stands on the gangplank to the ark, reviewing the species of the world pair by pair, deciding on a purely economic basis which creatures to save and which to consign to the deepening waters. He turns away the pests, the serpents and other species he deems useless to man or too costly to take along. If such a vision strains the imagination, consider the call by some Bush Administration officials to amend the Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already...