Word: disdained
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...slave trade, and a feeling of supremacy still prevails among the Janjaweed. Soyinka said the Janjaweed are “motivated” by a mentality in which they see their victims as nothing more than slaves. “You destroy a people if you treat them with disdain,” Soyinka said. The speech at the Center for Government and International Studies drew a full house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant...
...opened with the simplest of questions: Did he think he would win? To a smooth politician, it would have been a welcome softball. But nothing came easy to Russia's tortured President. "I'm a President," he sputtered with obvious disdain, "not a fortune teller." And off he stormed...
...Bayrou's Union for French Democracy (UDF) party had already joined the Sarkozy campaign before the first round; the majority of UDF members are thought to favor Sarkozy's liberal economic program more than they resent his gestures to the extreme right. That leaves independent centrists and Socialists whose disdain for Royal sent them flocking to Bayrou in the first place - a demographic essential to lure back, with early polls showing Sarkozy beating Royal in the run-off 54% to 46%. "This is an entirely new campaign," Lepetit says. "It's one in which voters will have to decide between...
...French terror expert Roland Jacquard points out that the AQIM was formed by a hard core of leaders who now view with disdain the holdouts of their former organization, the GSPC, still operating in the southern part of Algeria. Similarly, Moroccan extremists are frequently divided into small, local groups who turned locally recruited impoverished youths into the hastily trained kamikazes that botched the recent Casablanca bombings. More sophisticated groups connected with Qaeda leaders in the Gulf may have recruited officers in the security forces and pilots in the national airline, but they have also been more closely monitored...
...Imus, host of CBS Radio’s “Imus In The Morning” program, referred to the “nappy-headed hos” of Rutgers women’s basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders of one desiccated...