Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of looking at incontrovertible facts that rise moral, ethical, and legal questions, Hoyte opted to discredit my complaint using, ironically, the same traditional arguments wielded by those historically opposed to our society's racial integration and diversification. Andres Paniagua
...date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David Pryor, whose long-standing probe of SDI seems to have triggered the revelations: "It could totally discredit the testing process and the credibility of the Pentagon...
...memory lapse of one of Hill's key supporters, Judge Susan Hoerchner. Hoerchner was able to provide pivotal evidence for Hill, since she testified that Hill had confided that she was being sexually harassed ten years before. Her charges, therefore, could not have been trumped up solely to discredit Thomas...
...neat parable, but it never happened. The lurch to the left is like the "stab in the back" invented by right-wing Germans after World War I: an instant myth designed to discredit all one's political enemies in one fell swoop. Ask anyone who hangs out in left field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter...
...Bassett does not complain. "People want me to feel badly about that, and I don't. If ((the filmmakers)) want to honor her in that way at the end of the movie, and if the audiences appreciate seeing her that way, then let them have it. It doesn't discredit my work and the joy that I brought to this role...