Word: notionalism
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This liberty interest, implicating personal privacy as it does, is designed to protect the worth and dignity of each human, to create a zone into which the government may not enter without good and proper cause. It runs counter to our notion of decency and fair play that any person should be taken aside and searched without probable cause of some wrongdoing, but random drug testing is a search based upon presupposed guilt without any suspicion, much less probable cause...
...version from a more conventional treatment are in a large part a matter of set design. Egan claims that the set will allow the show "to slowly strip away layer after layer leaving nothing but barren nakedness at the end." It is also important to him to challenge the notion that Lear requires a level of style and maturity which is beyond the abilities of undergraduates. "I've learnt that it isn't the age, but the number of incredibly strong actors," he said...
...fact that the very entities they might purport to be protecting by striking down VAWA have adamantly protested against such protection. It would be a shame to compromise a piece of legislation that accomplishes so much for women's civil rights for an ulterior motive of preserving some misplaced notion of federalism...
...Many of us would feel it hard to approve some beautiful new building when somebody working in it is making $8 to $9 an hour," Braude says. "It's hard to accept the notion that the city in which they live and prosper is able to do this and the wealthiest university in the world...
...characterizes the resistance of Cuban-Americans to the will of the Justice Department and the INS as "the rule of the mob" and "irresponsible behavior." The editors dismiss concerns for the boy's future in Cuba as part of a "political agenda" because they don't have the faintest notion what it's like to grow up in a country with no freedom of speech, religion or the press...