Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps your reasons don't matter if you're performing good deeds. Only the most heartless and brainless of isolationists could fault the U.S. intervention in Somalia. If we still cling to the notion that our legitimacy as a people derives from a humanistic social contract and an obligation to use our power as a moral force wherever reasonable, Operation Restore Hope is simply right. We should find no defects in Bush's actions...
...notion that this move will give either Charles or Diana any more private freedom is strictly wishful thinking. If anything, the press will be more relentless. Charles will find a national stakeout on himself and his friend Camilla Parker-Bowles, and tabloid writers are sure to be bolder...
...staff that is mostly her own, continuance of her status as a senior member of the royal family and a life free from Charles' glower. She may have insisted on Major's underscoring her right to be ^ Queen. With the clamor in Parliament, this may be an unrealistic notion. But Diana should not be counted out; her friends say the public has not seen the extent of her portfolio. More and more, she moves center-stage. Quips Holden: "If she manages to pull down the monarchy by mistake, she will be elected the first President of the People's Republic...
...Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao will have to do much more to heal the deep tear left in India's political fabric. What was challenged at the mosque was not merely a Muslim presence on a piece of ground held sacred by two religions, but the notion that India, a Third World superpower, can remain what its 20th century founders intended it to be: a tolerant, secular state of many ethnic identities, religions and languages...
...telling you, me and my old voice, it just go up a little bit and come down a little bit," Billie Holiday says during a rehearsal interlude on this landmark set. "It's not legit. I do not got a legitimate voice." True enough. But Billie Holiday changed every notion of legit -- twisted it right around into such a newfangled shape that her silken, serpentine style became the touchstone for all jazz singing. She was, by herself, the new tradition. Others followed, and some were great. But no one has ever touched...