Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate speech" provisions--which forbid "harassment by discriminatory conduct and vilification"--were included in the guidelines because committee members considered "hate speech" detrimental to both working and learning environments, according to the report...
While the gals in data entry are discussing fascinating new possibilities for cutlery commercials, the feminist pundits are tripping over one another to show that none of them is, goddess forbid, a "man hater." And while the pundits are making obvious but prissy-sounding statements like "The fact that one has been a victim doesn't give one carte blanche to victimize others," the woman in the street is making V signs by raising two fingers and bringing them together with a snipping motion...
...that Mansfield's position is as strong as Bosco seems to think, but regardless of that, Bosco's article misses the point that the debate was a massacre and that Harvey Mansfield acquitted himself so poorly that both he and his arguments may be justly subjected to ridicule. God forbid we should "judge the debate on debating points." On what basis should we judge it? Figure-skating points? John M. Bronsteen...
...Heaven forbid, the tourists might be disturbed...
...Museum, prompted he implies by his "hostility to almost anything that smacked of Jews," caused him to prohibit the curator of the Museum in 1926 from raising any funds for the museum at all. I think Lowell's anti-Semitism is well documented. But in fact he did not forbid the curator from raising funds in 1926. Rather, he crossed out certain names on a list of names submitted by the curator for approach for gifts. This is an old practice of the University--clearing and assigning approaches to donors...