Word: martyrize
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...something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...
...region where personal suffering is often used as a yardstick of political legitimacy, al-Husseini's credentials are impressive. His father, Abdul Qader al-Husseini, became a martyr to Palestinians in 1948 during a battle between Palestinian and Jewish fighters in the mountain village of Kastel west of Jerusalem. The younger al-Husseini has endured continuous hardship since graduating from a Syrian military college in 1967. Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and an additional five years under house arrest. Since 1988, when Israeli officials shut down his Arab Studies Society, a research...
...conquer other countries and, in his occupation of Kuwait, proof of his willingness to do so. He has already lost much of the first, and he may abandon all of the second. If so, the coalition can deprive him of a third asset, his political appeal as a martyr, by ending hostilities...
Unfortunately, Hann isn't the ideal martyr for the First Amendment cause. His offense consisted of more than just unpopular political opinions--he shouted racist, anti-semitic and anti-gay epithets at a first-year student. Worse yet, he was drunk at the time, giving Brown more solid grounds to indeed treat his as a disciplinary case...
...HANN WAS, after all, an ideal guinea pig on which to test the brand-new hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have...