Word: hollowing
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...suburban community of 24,000 just northwest of Chicago. By refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure to enact a strong law on the national level. While local measures against handgun proliferation are encouraging, they...
...first one I saw was standing outside Elsie's, his triangular nose thrust firmly in the air. The orange face returned my stare with a hollow, fiery gaze His mouth stayed half-open, and I had trouble telling where face ended and teeth began...
Conway attributed the delay to problems with four conduits, which had been bent out of shape, preventing the placement of telephone wires. Conduits are hollow pipes through which the wiring...
Freedom of the press is a goal enshrined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but for the citizens of most of the U.N.'s 158 member countries that pledge can seem hollow: governments may censor publications and broadcast outlets if they do not own or operate them directly; officials sometimes imprison journalists for what they print; bureaucrats frequently have the power to decide what information the international wire services can distribute within their nations' borders. Spurred by the Soviet Union, some Third World members and executives of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
...personally abhors minority representation in government, but the suspicion runs high because Watt derided not only his commissioners, but also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...