Word: defendable
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...independence this year, faith-based politics is further dividing the nation's ethnicities. The new mood was on display at the November party conference of Malaysia's ruling political party, the United Malays National Organization, during which one delegate spoke of his willingness to bathe in blood to defend the Malay race and religion. By December, the atmosphere was so tense that Malaysia's usually understated Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called race relations "brittle"-even though a few weeks before he had defended his nation's reputation, telling TIME: "At the end of the day, Malaysia is still well...
President Drew Gilpin Faust By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, February 09, 2007 5:01 AM We hope that Faust, even in the face of adversity, will have the courage to defend the right decision even when it is unpopular and the wisdom to recognize when an unpopular decision is wrong...
...said. But “if they really want to help us...[they should] help us get the resources we need to learn and make a better paper.” In November, Miner staff members had less than a day’s notice to prepare to defend their annual budget at the Council meeting. Michele Martin and Wendy Moore, who were editor-in-chief and business manager of the paper at the time, were each allowed to speak in defense of the budget for four minutes each. “What they suggested was cutting absolutely all salary...
...cold war was quite enough." ROBERT GATES, Secretary of Defense, reacting to comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who blamed U.S. policy for forcing other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves...
...light-water nuclear power plants, from which it is difficult to generate the fissile material for bombs. Clinton's presidency ended before the power plants could be completed, and the projects today are derelict--evidence, in Pyongyang's eyes, of Washington's bad faith. But those who defend the Agreed Framework say that if Bush had followed through, six years of dangerous saber rattling--not to mention Kim's successful testing of a nuclear device--may have been avoided...