Word: loathful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility," says the officer. "But is it moral to put your own guys at risk--knowing your adversary isn't going to do that--in order for you to feel good about yourself? That's a very narrow...
First, we are appalled that the diagnosis ultimately comes from UHS and not from other doctors. UHS has had a frightening record of botches on mental-health cases, and we are loath to see that organization retain such a large influence on who stays and who goes. We are also concerned that the word dangerous is ill-defined and could apply to a number of conditions that would only loosely be described as such...
...expedient: If I assume power to censor your words, you may someday assume power to censor mine. Professional civil libertarians (I include myself among them) tend to be liberals; they consider race and sex discrimination immoral and not just inexpedient (a waste of human resources), so they are loath to defend the moral right to harbor prejudices. Yet, if you value free speech, censorship is as immoral as bigotry...
...what if this offensive against Hamas by Arafat ultimately proves as ineffectual and half-hearted as those of the past? Despite Peres' threat, Israeli officers are loath to blatantly re-enter land under P.A. control and risk a broad confrontation between Israel's forces and Arafat's. The military would favor covert operations in Arafat's jurisdiction, like the assassination in January of Hamas' master bombmaker, Yehia Ayyash, in the Gaza Strip. Says the Defense Ministry official: "If we have intelligence about someone in Arafat's zones, we'll give the information to the P.A. And if they...
...mean that dolphin deaths will rise again. Proponents of the Stevens bill argue that the alternatives to encircling dolphins have proved destructive to both tuna populations and other species, such as sea turtles and sharks. All that leaves Anthony O'Reilly, chairman of H.J. Heinz Co., which owns StarKist, loath to make any change that might be misinterpreted by dolphin-loving consumers. "I believe the definition should not be changed in the absence of consensus of scientists and public opinion," he says. And he's the one who has to move the goods...