Word: dilemmas
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This type of reasoning could enable Radcliffe to maintain the status quo of graduate prizes. Resolution of the problem as a whole hinges on solving this dilemma...
...Having gone through the dilemma of whether to obey or resist, I found myself, against my moral and spiritual conscience, serving as ordered in Viet Nam. As a surgical technician, mine was not a direct encounter with the fighting but a position in which I witnessed the brutality and absurdity of war. I could not help offering my understanding to those deserters and resisters who, according to their higher conscience, refused any association with the military murder machine. I cast my vote for total absolution for these...
...that marvelous, but the author (surprisingly, considering his age) sees this. When Yglesias sets down Raul's dilemma, which is how to keep well-intentioned authority from marking his mind before it can grow an adequate protective shell, he does it without the self-pity that might be expected of a young writer. His Raul is induced to return to school temporarily, where he performs brilliantly as Rosencrantz in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rosencrantz is more or less his role in life at the moment...
...value of a life whose security can be ensured only be deaths upon deaths. There are moments when such seems to be the situation in Israel: moments when it seems that it must resign itself to being Sparta, a nation of warriors, and abandon the Athenian style. The dilemma is a particularly difficult one for the Israelis because their image and identity which is now evolving is, in a sense, both the fulfillment and contradiction of their historic traditions...
...enormity of killing one's fellow man with premeditation is the principal reason for the existence of the death penalty; it is also the principal argument for abolishing it. The dilemma of deciding which aspect of that paradox should prevail has occupied the minds and emotions of civilized men for centuries. This week it will be the concern of the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears oral arguments on the contention that the death penalty constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment. The opposing lawyers are again marshaling the extensive arguments that...