Word: disrespective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike, hastily created to discipline student protesters. Its 1969 proceedings led to the discipline or expulsion of more than 100 demonstrators. Its governing document, the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, is filled with vagueness: under its provisions, for example, the CRR can judge whether a student has shown "gave disrespect for the dignity of others" and expel him on that subjective basis. The University is far more likely to use the CRR to punish political demonstrators of the future than to uphold human dignity...
...That in our deeper reverence for the God who commands us and for the nobility of humankind that impels us, we denounce every form of violence in every neighborhood, we lay aside the weapons and words of political conflict, the taunts and jibes of insidious disrespect...
Last week the VA canceled the project. Said a chastened Noll: "Certainly we meant no disrespect for these valiant Civil War heroes...
...should come as no surprise to liberal Democrats that the country has waxed conservative. Citizens see an America held hostage in Iran, helpless in Afghanistan, held in disrespect by Allies and hated by enemies. They have less money to make ends meet, see big government as a convenient target for contempt, and want a tax cut as an expedient remedy. The country seems less prosperous, less in control...
...shuffle racial ridicule in the category of innocuous humor is not only a show of disrespect to another ethnic culture but it also demonstrates a real insensitivity to the problem of racial tension in this society," Hsieh said...