Word: entrustment
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...give thanks for our good fortune, to address the nation in times of crisis or to place an official seal on statements and make them the words of the nation as a whole. These are not insignificant tasks--they require someone to whom we can entrust the gravity and power of our collective voice--but politicians, who must seek votes, have rarely been any good at accomplishing them. A president who cannot command moral respect has thus failed in one of the most important, but least definable, duties of office...
...other hand, populist though you be, you don't entrust your life savings to a friendly guy named Bud whom you met this morning at the bus depot. You prefer men named Calvin who work in buildings with pillars...
...entire career relies on our ability to accept each of her new incarnations as genuine. Not only is she baffled by how to differentiate her acting onscreen from her public posturing, but how can we accept the "constructed" persona for two hours on a movie screen when we entrust our society's "coolness," all our most valuable fads and fashions, to the "real" Madonna...
...assist them in academic research; however, free and unfettered access also allows students to benefit from Internet communication as a social and cultural phenomenon. Any moral, ethical or legal obligations cited by Metallica's attorneys are placed on the students, not the University; part of character education is to entrust students with the freedom to make wrong decisions, and Harvard has good reason to expect its students to act as responsibly online as on campus. Harvard does not scan network traffic for copied MP3's, but neither does it filter World Wide Web downloads for illegal pornography or conduct random...
...more than the village offered. Instead of carousing in the karaoke bars, he tried to set up his own business. He went south to Xiamen to trade seafood, but ended up losing money in the fickle, seasonal business. Undaunted, he was now attempting something far more audacious. He would entrust his fate to the "snakeheads" who illicitly spirit thousands of Chinese out of their homeland and into the promised land of America...