Word: enjoins
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...then I flipped to another card, with an excerpt from one often classed among the original post-modernists. Nietzsche's words leap up at me: "Without forgetting, it is quite impossible to live at all." Usually, Commencement is associated with memory--from old relatives who enjoin us to remember our good ole' college days to close friends we're urged never to forget...
WHILE THE VIRTUEmeisters of the right enjoin us to post the Ten Commandments in our kitchen and shun the unchaste among our neighbors, the Clintons have been quietly scrambling to come up with a more congenial source of moral guidance. First there was Hillary's philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left...
...fervent hope that God will grant the actual deciders on whether or not this new memorial will honor Harvard's own the strength to be bridge builders with the past and the present--not to be those who enjoin with others so as to validate the tactics of division on Harvard property...
...Midi to boot out invading Prussians, march on Paris -- whistling the tune as they went -- depose the King and fire the imagination of all Europe. That was 200 years ago. Today the song's robust words, which bristle with righteous anger at la tyrannie and enjoin the children of revolutionary France to "drench our fields" with the "tainted blood" of the enemy, are under siege by those who feel the piece smacks of political incorrectness...
...this week, to be followed shortly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, next week, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice in any decision to fight Iraq; 45 House Democrats went so far as to file a lawsuit asking the federal courts to enjoin Bush from committing U.S. forces to combat without prior authorization from Congress. A U.N. use-of-force resolution could encourage Congress to grant such authorization. "It would have some significant impact if the United Nations granted such a resolution," said House Speaker Thomas Foley, one of several leaders who accompanied...