Word: notionalism
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...Russians, of course, view the notion of an Iranian missile strike against the U.S. skeptically, and wonder if the system isn't some kind of anti-Russian Trojan horse designed to kill Russian missiles. Obering dismisses that idea. "The Russians have hundreds of ICBMs and they have thousands of warheads," he noted. "We're talking about 10 interceptors, so that's not going to change the strategic balance between the two countries...
...really. In the town of Stirling itself, there are few mentions of Braveheart outside the Thistles Shopping Centre - just yellow balloons tied to a trestle table laid out with leaflets and buttons bearing the SNP logo. In recent years the party has softened its stance, moving away from the notion that winning a majority vote would give it a mandate to negotiate independence. The party now proposes a referendum first...
...poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it, "Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...
...location of two suicide vests, and rumors floated that authorities were looking for a third. That missing vest may have been worn by the suicide bomber who killed one Iraqi politician and wounded 22 in the parliament cafeteria on April 12--an attack that shattered any remaining notion that life in the walled city could go untouched by the battles raging outside. After the bombing, Lieut. Colonel Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman, said, "The Green Zone is not safe...
...most important question facing women graduating from college today is whether they can find a job where it is possible to combine family and career.She says she has not yet formed an opinion on the conflicting ideas of modern feminism.“There’s the notion that you should celebrate difference, that women are actually better in various ways—the notion that we get from Sex and the City... women who wear five-inch heels and kick ass. Whereas second-generation feminists eschewed high heels as being symbols of patriarchy,” she says...