Word: disdainfully
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...when the government’s own agents betray our ideals and then escape censure by destroying the evidence. If the American electorate is plagued with apathy and ignorance, we need not look to sources as remote as changing technology and the rise of special interests. Rather, the demonstrated disdain of the CIA for the ideals of the United States, the rights of its citizens, and international law would appear to be a much more direct cause of cynicism. Even as the agency moralizes on its website, extolling “personal accountability” and patriotism, it obstructs justice...
...Indeed, it was Chvez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chvez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chvez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility onhis part may make his neighbors more receptive to his initiatives. Latin America--and the rest of the world--has not heardthe last...
...example, express support for Chvez's basic agenda: "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Mejia. And the leftward, less U.S.-dependent turn he engineered in Latin American politics has ironically made the a more market-oriented model he professes to disdain more viable in countries like Brazil by making it more egalitarian. Sunday's humbling results will make Chvez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene; but a little humility on his part may make his neighbors more receptive to initiatives like the Banco del Sur, or Bank...
...with France's own colonial past, which he said was "profoundly unjust, [and] contrary to the three founding words of our republic: liberté, egalité, franternité". The view reversed Sarkozy's attitudes before becoming President, when he raised hackles in Algeria with his mocking disdain of what he has called the "detestable fashion of repentance" of French politicians, such as his predecessor, for alleged injustices inflicted during France's colonial period. After earlier acknowledging the role of the French state in the persecution of Jews during France's World War II occupation early in his presidency, Chirac relieved...
...wasn't good enough. Nowhere had Obama, with his almost cantankerous disdain for sound bites, been so frustrated as in the unending series of candidate debates that have punctuated the campaign season. In the first outing, he stumbled over a question about how he would react to a terrorist attack, sounding more like a candidate to head the volunteer fire department as he focused on disaster preparedness. Clinton, seeing her opening, spoke as a Commander in Chief: "I think a President must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate...