Word: indirection
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...Arafat is terrified to the point of paranoia, some of his confidants say, about Sharon's coming to power. Here is the former general who tried to kill him with air strikes on his Beirut bunker, who was found by an official Israeli report 18 years ago to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Maybe the coming of the old warrior is what recently led a clearly unnerved Arafat to grab a machine gun from a bodyguard and leap out of his car when Jewish settlers in Gaza blocked the road...
HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION: A student is assigned a paper on Machiavelli's indirect government. The student turns in a paper with the following thesis: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule." However, as the professor reads past the thesis, he discovers that this student provides no evidence to support his claim. Instead he says: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule because I believe that is the truth...
...Truth and Reconciliation Committee could not make a single finding of me being involved in direct or indirect authorization of acts of atrocities," he said...
Willoughby's path to becoming a food writer was indirect. Until 1989, he worked for the Mass. State Department of Public Health. In 1986, he helped found a free clinic for HIV/AIDS patients. Out of a desire to make his patients' stay more comfortable, he learned to cook, developing a unique style of home-cooked food...
...Israel of settlements and the Lebanon war. For Palestinians, he's a symbol of the slaughter that befell them at the hands of Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except a murderer and criminal...