Word: establish
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...Allston Burr Senior Tutors in the Houses and the Senior Advisors to Freshmen do not act as prosecutors of students. Rather, they seek to establish a balanced account of an incident and to present the student's point of view to the Board...
sanctuary for refugees until their lives are no longer in danger." The other co-founder, retired Rancher Jim Corbett, who was acquitted, said, "We will continue to provide sanctuary services openly and go to trial as often as is necessary to establish . . . that the protection of human rights is never illegal...
...example: even when she agrees with the majority, she increasingly carves out her own position. She wrote eleven concurrences in the court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions...
...point. Unfortunately, democracy is a minority taste. The Founding Fathers in their Enlightenment glow certainly considered liberty a universal principle. They also considered the emerging U.S. as a model of liberty for the rest of the world. But they had no illusions about how easy it might be to establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly...
...corporate conduct in South Africa have encouraged companies to remain in the country and fight apartheid from within, has urged corporations to push even harder. Said Sullivan: "Our signatories have to do more to support the rights of blacks to work where they want, to integrate neighborhoods, to establish common amenities...