Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have much choice as long as the Soviets are involved. Israel cannot face both the Soviets and the Arabs. But we should minimize this dependency so it won't become a burden on the U.S. or an insult to Israel itself...
...CHURCH. They were promptly hustled away. A delegation leader later dismissed the prayer-service protest as an attempt to "grab media attention," but his view was not shared by all the Americans. Said one: "The message we got right from the start was not to do anything that might insult our Soviet hosts...
...apartheid and insisting that her government would maintain the present arms embargo against South Africa. On Saturday, as the two leaders met for lunch, 7,000 demonstrators gathered at London's Trafalgar Square, where they heard Deputy Labor Party Leader Roy Hattersley call Botha's visit "an insult to Britain's black and Asian population." Still, like the other European governments, the British recognized South Africa's importance as a trading partner and as a political power. In the words of a Thatcher aide, the government's aim was "not to drive the South Africans...
...Maharashtra towns earlier this year. One specific incident came in late April when Bal Thackeray, leader of a militant, right-wing Hindu organization called Shiv Sena, gave a speech in which he reportedly maligned the Islamic faith. Muslims retaliated by garlanding a portrait of Thackeray with dirty sandals, an insult to Hindus. Next, roving gangs of Shiv Sena members armed with gasoline bombs, daggers, spears and a few guns ordered shops to close and observe a general strike. Muslims in Bhiwandi brought out the green flags of Islam, and the battle lines were drawn...
Dworkin and MacKinnon couch their discussion in terms of establishing equality between the sexes, but their real complaint is that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...