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...person of the same sex." The new proposal would make it possible for any local congregation to employ a homosexual if it wished. The church's various presbyteries (regional associations) must approve all clergy hiring, and would be free to accept homosexuals, or reject them, without any constraint from the national denomination...
...phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque...
...Harry Reems conviction was a mistake because any arbitrary constraint on freedom of speech is the first indication of tyranny," Bailey said...
...quality of play-survived the onslaught of a gifted new generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint, and one scarcely noticed by fans who come to cheer the unleashed superstuffers...
...hasn't yet been asked to serve participating fully in the evolution of a future foreign policy. So the actual identification of a Cabinet member is not so important as having that [person] help me in the process of transition. I don't feel a time constraint...