Word: objectional
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There are plenty of Americans not weaned on harsh Sharia Islamic law who would object to the videos’ presentation of a perfectly harmonious United States. Despite what the state department says, it is not an effortless task for outsiders to be integrated into our Judeo-Christian cultural fabric. In my quite diverse Los Angeles public elementary school and middle school, we had a few very devout Muslims. For the most part, people respected their beliefs, or saved giggles about their requisite robes and foreign-sounding names for “normal” friends later. But they were...
...listed banks - which have less than 20% market share in Germany - compete not only with one another but with Germany's Sparkassen and Landesbanken, regional savings and development banks that are underwritten by the government - a fact that has brought Germany into conflict with other E.U. nations that object to these state subsidies. (In the past, German authorities have been reluctant to facilitate listed banks taking over these public sector banks, delaying what many see as inevitable - and urgently needed - consolidation.) But change is coming; last year, following pressure from the E.U., German leaders agreed that all state guarantees...
...early parts of the movie, Scott Howard (Fox) appears to be the paradigm of the hapless, charisma-starved nice guy. He admittedly sucks at basketball and he can’t get the attention of the object of his affection, Pamela, girlfriend of Mick, the rival school’s top basketball player. Scott’s luck turns around when his werewolf features blossom and he becomes the most fearsome basketball player around, and an icon at his high school. From here, Teen Wolf basically follows the typical zero-to-hero storyline where the protagonist is eventually...
...example, a stained shirt in any other context falls by the wayside, more or less. But in Sportflecken (1996), a white shirt with light yellow stains begins to raise questions. Why is it stained? Whose shirt is it? The object itself is boring and dormant, but the truth lies in the details. It may have belonged to a deceased lover, or maybe not; one often wonders if Wolfgang Tillmans’ images are authentic or posed in such a way that they look authentic. It doesn’t seem to matter, however, as these objects represent details of anyone?...
Climate control cases were constructed to protect the artifacts, and the curators from other museums oversaw object installation, Brauer said. In addition, 17 separate institutions provided funding for the installation, Brauer said...