Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have to give up the notion of appointing somebody called the 'executive director," said Epps. "We would give up the request that they elect Judith Kidd [as the director] that their current bylaws specify...
...endorse Lowell's notion that one of the goals of the Houses is to 'throw together' students of different origins and interests," they wrote. "We do not find persuasive some of the arguments put forward in opposition to heterogeneity, such as the need for the Houses to be a place for retreat from the stresses of College life, this supposedly requiring students [to] be able to restrict their social contacts to persons similar to themselves...
...begin with, it flirts with the notion of moral relativism, or the belief that it is invalid to criticize the mores of any one culture no matter how wrong they may seem. Not only is this a lazy intellectual argument, but it is also threatening to American democracy because our political system is built on very specific notions of what inherent legal rights individuals do and do not possess...
...greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful of nurturing the full potential of their people, regardless of gender, as they are of saving their souls. CHRISTINE TRIEBERT South Newfane, Vermont...
Over the years, as he has become more and more dictatorial, the notion of Yeltsin as embodying democracy has receded, and now no one can say for sure which policies he would actually pursue in a second term. Yegor Gaidar, the former Prime Minister who lost his job in Yeltsin's purge of Western-leaning officials, is only one who says he is "not persuaded that the President will promote liberal reform" if he is returned to office. Indeed, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's gloomy observation of two years ago seems even more apt: "The system that governs us is a combination...