Word: meant
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...speech was meant to coincide with a sit-in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in which several Spartacus Youth Club members participated...
...defendant Zdravko Mucic, claimed that his client had taken the job as camp commander solely out of a humanitarian desire to increase food supplies and release Serb prisoners. "Mucic was trying to help the people . . . he was not really in charge," argued Tapuskovic. "Conditions in the camp were not meant to make people suffer." Instead, Tapuskovic maintains, guilt for the Celebici atrocities lies squarely on the heads of the three Muslim d efendants: Zejnil Delalic, a Muslim military commander thought to have established the camp, Hazim Delic, the camp's deputy commander charged with four murders, and camp guard Esad...
Action Week is meant to reinforce E4A's educational mission by concentrating on a particular issue that changes each year, Wuchinich said...
...What it's meant to do is pull out connections between different issues and, frequently, between different movements for social change or different forms of repression," she said. "With food, people rarely think about it as a political issue...
...humanitarian measure--not a reparation. The money, he said, would help "victims of poverty and catastrophes, of genocide and other severe breeches of human rights such as, of course, victims of the Holocaust." Such vagueness is sure to raise eyebrows among Jewish leaders wondering just what their share is meant to be. But TIME's Bruce Crumley says it was a compromise Koller had to make. "There's obviously a lot of political pressure that such a fund is seen not as an admission of guilt," he said. "After denying the missing funds all along, the banks have just recently...