Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevertheless, we who share a perhaps hopeless idealism, we who hold a perhaps naive belief in the power of democracy must firmly, resolutely oppose the suppression of human rights. We most follow our perhaps irrational faith that even if the trains do run on time. dictatorship is inherently evil and can never be tolerated. And especially such a murderous dictatorship as this one should be abhorred...
...comes from fragmentary, often contradictory Army records. Says historian Arthur L. Smith of California State University, Los Angeles, who has written about German soldiers in the postwar years: "How do you get rid of a million bodies?" Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose also disagrees with Bacque on several key points. Nevertheless, he says, "we as Americans can't duck the fact that terrible things happened. And they happened at the end of a war we fought for decency and freedom, and they are not excusable...
...would have been unrealistic to expect the plenum to resolve chronic problems of empire that have bedeviled Czars and party leaders alike. Nevertheless, the outcome was noticeably flat and predictable. The party's new platform offered vague promises of economic and cultural autonomy to the 15 national republics but warned that secession or the revision of borders was unacceptable. Violence would be met with the "full force of Soviet laws," the platform warned. Yet all this has been said before, and seems unlikely to end the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh or cool the breakaway passions in the Baltic states...
Fortunately, FAS is not coming out of the deal completely empty-handed. The faculty exacted a commitment from President Derek C. Bok to be represented in future decisions affecting property development, and the Gulf site will ultimately end up in FAS's hands. Nevertheless, if we accept that Harvard's primary purpose is its academic mission, a compromise as unpalatable to the Faculty as this is still unacceptable...
...Nevertheless, common sense argues for wider acceptance of the Smithsonian's accord, even at the risk of some loss to scholarship. As Harjo notes, the agreement applies "modern standards of ethics to yesterday's abuses." And it may help forestall the future desecration of lands that others hold sacred in memory...