Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marks seems generally unfamiliar with international law. I would add that the narrowly circumscribed notion of responsibility employed by the commission and apparently subscribed to by Mr. Mak is not only an insult to commonsense, but to international legal principles as well. He might be reminded that German financiers and industrialists, whose contributions to the Nazi war machine were far less direct than the Israelis' contributory role in the Beirut massacres, were indicted and tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Moreover, Article 3(e) of the U.N. Convention on Genocide regards complicity in genocide to be a punishable act; there...
What is just is not always easy. Nor is it always recognized Israel's commitment to the Kahan Commission at a precarious moment in her short history indicates a country dedicated to the notion of a free, democratic, and moral posture. The youngest democratic state, and among the most beleaguered. Israel openly displays her own limited guilt before a world hostile toward her and quick to find fault...
...people we were getting." The throwback has already spurred a lawsuit and a blast of criticism from Bannon Street residents, lawyers and sociologists. Says Harry Specht, dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley: "It's medieval. We gave up the notion of the poorhouse before the Depression." Warehousing the poor, he says, "stigmatizes them, creating a subculture of people who are considered disreputable - bums...
...Salvadoran policy, with hard-liners like Kirkpatrick and Clark pitted against more moderate policymakers at State. When Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, reportedly suggested that perhaps the time had come at least to explore the idea of holding talks with the guerrillas, the notion was quickly squelched...
...some of the points he makes need to be commented upon. No one denies that the movie glosses over Gandhi's life, least of all the Indians, but his implication that the movie is simply a piece of political propaganda by the Indian Government is ludicrous as is the notion of Richard Attenborough being an Indian "agent" hired to defame Jinnah. The partial funding of the film by the government was a profitable financial investment and nothing else. The unfavorable portrayal of Jinnah is a consequence of the director's own views and not a result of political pressure...