Word: dissenting
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...what to do. Meanwhile, several influential Israelis have come to B.Y.U.'s defense. Mayor Kollek stated last week that all faiths "should be free to practice their own religion among their own people here in Jerusalem." Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the "free exercise of conscience and dissent in a democratic society" is at stake...
Curran contends that none of these traditional teachings on sexual morality have been defined infallibly, and that theologians are thus free to dissent from them. But Rome reads canon law differently. Says one official at the Vatican: "It is valid to withhold assent [privately] in certain circumstances, but it is not valid to teach dissent." Curran protests that he is not alone, characterizing his views as "mainstream" and "accepted by the majority of Catholic theologians today." Nine former presidents of the Catholic Theological Society of America agree, and are circulating a pro-Curran petition...
This unprecedented recommendation was characterized in The Crimson as “the first time [the Corporation] faced dissent from within…[after] student charges of the committee’s ineffectiveness and its near-perfect record of following the Corporation’s line...
...conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began loosening control over the lifestyle choices of the 48 million Iranians under the age of 30, who make up more than two-thirds of the population...
...report - ordered his men to set up an observation post about 40 m from the gun. Because there were no rocks or shrubs big enough to shield them, they would have to build two fake bushes from pieces of smaller plants. At this point, says the trooper, dissent began to emerge. Constructing hides so close to the weapon was too risky, some of the men thought: they could keep watch just as effectively, and more safely, from further away. "There were other places to hide,'' the trooper says. The leader disagrees: "There was nowhere f______ else," he tells Time...