Word: leniently
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...that explicitly prohibit some individuals from becoming officers of the group based on their religious views. For these reasons, we ask that the UC vote “no” on this bill or any similar proposal.The UC should not defer to the CCL’s more lenient standards, which recognize groups that discriminate on the basis of religion. (However, the CCL, which is comprised primarily of College administrators as well as three appointed undergraduates, does not recognize student groups that discriminate on the basis of many other factors, including race.) The UC and CCL have distinct purposes...
...crime of "dividing" faith in God. Studi's editors then placed in the mouth of Dante's infernal tour guide, Virgil, the remark that a guy next to Mohammed "with his pants down" represented Italy's current policy toward Islam, which the magazine's editors apparently regard as too lenient...
...step in the right direction for the U.N., whose former Human Rights Commission had been discredited by its questionable membership of such nations as Cuba and Iran. The U.S. justified its vote by heralding its own high standards for human rights, while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John R. Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., sharply criticized the newly established Human Rights Council, calling it only marginally better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority...
...would improve if she left behind the stress of her job. “I had to make a choice between my shop and my health. I chose my health,” she said.The poetry shop is indebted to Harvard Real Estate, according to Solano, for being extremely lenient in terms of rent. Two years ago she was afraid she would have to declare the shop bankrupt. “They have been absolutely wonderful to me over the past 10 years, through all of my various illnesses and accidents,” she said.Menkiti, who now owns...
...Mexico border that was part of an immigration bill passed by the House in December, while Senate Republicans questioned if their leader, Bill Frist, was allowing his presidential ambitions to get in the way of passing immigration legislation. And as the Senate moved forward with a lenient immigration reform plan, a group of almost two dozen House Republicans held a press conference to strongly denounce the Senate GOP's approach...