Word: demeaned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewing the Goetz case as a purely racial issue, we demean what it is to be human. The sole good becomes insuring that whatever whites can do, Blacks can do too--even if it means killing young people as a result of irrational fear. Is society so crime-ridden that it is just assumed that vigilantism is all right? And is our challenge now merely to ensure that racism not prevent Blacks from having the equal opportunity to act outside the law in self-defense? The recent flurry of commentary on the Goetz case suggests that we are at such...
...Posner says that, although he favors the change, he does not think members would approve election reform. "They might think it would demean the standards by which they were elected...
...uses as a premise the university's tendency to admit minorities mostly from the middle to upper classes. But what exactly does the report mean by "middle class"? It seems that it meant, curiously enough, a minority like Richard Zayas who wrote to The Crimson denying and attempting to demean the TWSA's convictions. Unknowingly, in the eyes of the booklet, he has incriminated himself...
Amnesty International (AI)'s newly released book, Torture in the Eighties, does not demean the constant American struggle over civil rights interpretation. But it does provide a healthy measure of perspective for American citizens--as a chilling, factual account of brutal practices little known in the industrial West. And while the action of such groups as Al, the United Nations, and other international organizations brings many cases of torture to light, the book still leaves one with "an underlying sense of pessimism about the prevention of such acts as the South Korean incident excerpted above...
...want to demean what PBH has done," explains Schmidt. "This additional program just allows other people, who might not want to get involved in the organized programs at PBH, a chance to help...