Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objection to all modern war. The IRA bombs primarily the economic interests of the British, attempting to make further occupation unprofitable. Certainly they are no more violent than Mugabe's legions, or the guerrillas that fight for the rights of El Salvadorans. At any rate, don't dismiss them as cowards; Bobby Sands proved, as if McSwiney, Connolly. Pearse, de Valera and a hundred others hadn't, that the IRA men are willing to lay down their own lives for a free Ireland. Sands proved something else about the IRA, too-their struggle will not ever stop while their country...
Snaporaz seems good-naturedly inclined to dismiss this manifest lunacy as an extreme example of the illogical, though often charming, behavior of the weaker sex. Soon, however, he is spotted by a woman, and she incites her cronies to violent retaliation against male sexual oppression, embodied in Snaporaz. Through a gymnasium bursting with women lifting weights and practicing testicle kicks he rushes, down into the fiery furnace below...
...wanted to demonstrate that there is very broad support for gay rights and civil liberties among straight students here." Szanton said, adding. "This many signatures will make it very hard for the Faculty Council to just dismiss the issue...
...demonstrators showed their approval with cries of "Recall! Recall!", referring to the City Council's proposed recall bill that would allow for referenda to dismiss elected public officials...
...dismiss the Dowling Committee report as "meaningless" would be to pass up an opportunity to increase student input into decisions that directly affect them. Under the present system, the student voice is diffused, channeled into a handful of unrelated committees that rarely sound their ideas off the entire student body and into a Student Assembly that the Faculty does not even officially recognize. But by mandating that all undergraduate committee members be drawn from a student council, the proposed system allows for more organized and unified--and, therefore, representative--student government. Because student committee members would report back...