Word: defenselessness
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...biggest thing from the standpoint of the city is that the tree is innocent and defenseless," says Kelley. "It doesn't have the conscience to go out and hurt someone. As an arborist we look at the individual tree. To us, it's a tree, pure and simple...
BUSH SOLD the American public on his war by convincing the nation that it was about American ideals, about national sovereignty and legitimacy, about standing up for defenseless people when evil dictators threaten. About showing courage and leadership for the world...
EVEN IN THE darkest months of the Gulf War, some of the most gruesome film footage shown on the evening news ironically took place not in the Persian Gulf but right here at home. The image of Los Angeles police officers last month brutally beating a defenseless citizen, Rodney King, woke the nation out of its post-Iraq euphoria and showed us the savage side of human nature. The picture of King's bruised face was comparable to the Iraqis' display of allied prisoners of war in the disgust and horror they both evoked...
...alternative to any peace % negotiations, even after Saddam's expressed willingness to withdraw from Kuwait is confirmed, is to ensure a long and destructive war, a fragmentation of the alliance and the likelihood of a destabilized Middle East. Complete destruction of Iraq's army will leave the country defenseless against Iran and Syria. If we insist also that Saddam face trial as a war criminal, then he is not likely to yield except as an act of finality and hopelessness, regardless of the devastation suffered by his country...
...tenants are helpless and poor. All landlords are despotic, rich and insatiably greedy--if not "milkers" of property who take the rent money and run, then "goldplaters" who repair their buildings just to raise rents extravagantly. And the Rent Control knights-in-shining armor save defenseless tenants from despotic landlords...