Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict is between a notion of private responsibility opposing the rules of the state," Schall said...
...hundred supporters of his organization, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), lined the streets in a town near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison was soon dispelled. Toivo raised a clenched fist in a black-power salute and shouted the official SWAPO slogan, "One Namibia, one nation...
...that seems like a peculiar notion, but one has to read the proposed ordinance to see just how peculiar it is. The city council proposed banning "discrimination... based on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, including...
...Peter Ellison, head of the research team and a member of the Anthropology Department explained that the results only confirm a previously held notion that rapid weight loss and intense physical exertion may lead to short team suppressive effects of the reproductive functions...
...policemen walk on fault lines In six novels and one nonfiction work, Joseph Wambaugh has followed their uncertain footsteps, recording the gallows humor and suicidal despair of California's blue knights. But readers have generally been able to take comfort in the notion that the men were, after all, fictive; surely real life was less melodramatic. In this tragic documentary, no such consolations are possible...