Word: dispell
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...Harper is also a charisma-challenged politician who wants a majority government in the next election but has not been able to dispel perceptions that he is cold and remote. (Shortly after winning office in January 2006, newspapers showed a stiff new PM shaking hands with his young son while dropping him off at school. Now photos on the Prime Minister's website show Harper holding homeless kittens.) Canadians might sympathize with a leader who ruefully said he was too busy worrying about running the country to read many novels, but giving a popular author the cold shoulder looks, well...
...American judicial system for an example, which has this notion as its cornerstone. Consequently, we believe that students should serve as full voting members of the administrative board. Allowing students to vote may not change the outcome of any instance of Ad Board review, but it would work to dispel the image of the board as a shadowy and removed tribunal.That being said, the admission of students into the Ad Board’s ranks should be handled with appropriate sensitivity. The committee should seek out mature and capable students, of whom there are no doubt many, ensuring that...
...simply provided information. The tagline of the program explicitly includes our “Future” sex lives, making it clear that the event’s organizers did not believe that every student is, or should be, having sex. At the event itself, Madison tried to dispel the stigma associated with virginity, and emphasized good choices rather than promiscuity. If the idea of someone talking about (gasp) anal sex in public still bothers you, then I’m pleased to inform you that you don’t have to attend...
...myth I wish to dispel is that being a “fruit fly” comes with a complex system of social benefits. At least in my case, the perks of having a lot of gay friends are really no different than the perks of having friends, period. My life is not one endless episode of “Will & Grace” in which my gay friends and I parade about discussing clothes, gossip, and sex. Instead, we sit on a crappy futons and discuss the Core, Drew Faust, and sex. My gay friends have never done...
...Despite the sequestration of the dissident Buddhists, Hanoi's communist leaders have been working hard to dispel the country's reputation for persecuting religion. After the U.S. in 2004 placed Vietnam on its list of "Countries of Particular Concern" for blocking religious freedom (North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China are all on the list), Hanoi passed a new law outlining ways for non-state religions to gain official approval. The next year, it allowed Nhat Hanh to return to Vietnam for the first time in 40 years. Late last year, Washington removed Vietnam from the religious-freedom blacklist...