Word: curbing
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Though the Ad Board has taken steps to curb the incidence of sexual violence and provide resources for victims, many feel there is much more to be done in the name of safety. Sexual violence-related student groups aim to transform Harvard into what CASV member Sarah B. Levit-Shore ’04 calls a “community of support,” which combines abundant University resources with good mental health counselors and an effective Ad Board procedure. A more comfortable atmosphere, she reasons, will help reduce the number of unreported cases, raise campus awareness and help...
...contrast, downplay the Final Judgment, emphasizing instead codes of behavior. That, plus the sect's insistence that China is "disintegrating from within," appeals to peasants, many of whom are poorly grounded in Christian principles and are angry at a government that has failed to raise their incomes or curb corruption...
...seriously. Certainly, Amélie’s relationship with the Man of Glass (an elderly neighbor so named for his severe bone disease) adds an intellectual counterpoint to all the levity. But just when it seems that Jeunet is establishing another dour subplot, he kicks it to the curb with one of the film’s simplest and best jokes. It’s clear that Jeunet and his cast are having fun with this film, and the enthusiasm is contagious. After the recent release of The Closet, the new standard for French comedy seemed impossibly high...
...Coulter’s dismissal did not curb her hate mongering; instead it seemed to radicalize her already pernicious ideology. In an Oct. 5 column entitled, “Don’t Just Profile. Deport,” Coulter brazenly advocates cleansing American soil of Muslims, arguing that, since the government could not feasibly “perform a thorough investigation of a million Muslim immigrants, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them.” Coulter’s appeal for ethnic cleansing has elicited widespread condemnation from fellow commentators. New York Times columnist...
...they would see every Muslim as involved in this jihad, resulting in the kind of attacks on Arab-Americans that we saw in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks. This would be a tragedy, but hardly what Rice had in mind when she asked the networks to curb their coverage...