Word: latent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these funds have been squandered by a government that, up until now, carefully avoided undertaking all but the most perfunctory land reform. Britain’s current refusal to provide funds for reform, much vilified by Mugabe’s sympathizers, has nothing to do with some form of latent colonial sympathy. The refusal is a result of the Zimbabwean government’s refusal to adhere to the rule of law and maintain transparency in its reforms, which Britain justifiably insists upon before funds are provided...
Eliot House Committee (HoCo) co-chair Eric Hart ’03, who presented the petition, wrote in an e-mail that he resented the “latent paternalism” and “dismissive” attitudes on the part of the administration...
...beers and doing backflips on top of moving vehicles. When Teen Wolf was released in 1985, the world was blessed with one of the most memorably cheesy and obscenely hilarious flicks of the modern age. This tale of a talentless high school point guard who escapes mediocrity when his latent werewolf genes spring into action spawned a much lesser sequel, a Saturday morning cartoon and scores of admirers. Nowadays, much of the film’s appeal is in the limitless unintentional comedy, especially the wildly crappy basketball scenes, featuring Fox’s “skills...
...normal bedtime. Apparently no one remembers that Bush peppers many of his speeches with Spanish or that on his trip to China a year ago he donned a blue silk robe, similar to the one worn by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. In these moments, Bush’s latent cosmopolitanism comes to the surface...
...year when the administration of San Francisco State University stood idly by while pro-Israel demonstrators were surrounded and subjected to chants of “Hitler did not finish the job,” it would be remiss for the president of any university not to comment on latent anti-Semitism in American higher education. That Summers is thus far the only university president to speak publicly on the subject is alarming...