Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin. Democracy lovers have been remarkably understanding as Yeltsin has shut down newspapers, produced a constitution out of his hip pocket that makes him virtual czar, forbidden candidates in the recent election to criticize his constitution on television, put off for years his own need to run for re-election and so on. This was all justified as an "interim" necessity in order to establish Russia on a democratic course. But if Yeltsin continues to govern in a style...
...were forbidden to raise funds so that wecould close for lack of funds," Curator andExecutive Director Carney Gavin said last month...
...interested in pursuing it. In fact, they refused to fundraise for the museum over the last year, and prohibited the museum staff from pursuing donations. Stager went to the absurd length of having his secretary dismantle a fax machine to make sure that his employees hadn't engaged in forbidden fundraising...
...each instance of abortion, no to every incidence of premarital or extramarital sex. He has exerted his influence on a document, published last week, laying out the church's stand on interpretations of the Bible. Ratzinger sees his work as showing Catholics the proper way -- and the forbidden way. "I think there is an obligation to protect people, to help them to see this is not our faith...
...frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...