Word: odiously
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...Hence the Déby dilemma: Prop up an odious but friendly regime, or allow Sudan, via its proxies, to sabotage efforts to stop the killing in Darfur...
...Surely it is time that you acknowledged that selecting Rudy Giuliani over Osama Bin Laden in 2001 was a mistake and damaged your reputation as the news magazine of record. I expect TIME to provide me with timely information on influential people and forces in the world, as odious as they may be. You blinked in 2001 and sided with the proselytizers of the American Way. Tony Richman, Launceston, Tasmania...
...happy about this visit" - one that begins, she pointed out "on International Human Rights Day". She wasn't the only one to protest Sarkozy's decision to host Gaddafi's first trip to France in 34 years. Former Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal called it "odious, shocking, and even inadmissible", and accused the President of "stomping on traditional French defense of human rights". Royal's centrist rival in the election, François Bayrou, termed the visit "unworthy of France, and unworthy for France." Even French Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner could muster little more enthusiasm...
Under my plan, the airlines would modify their caste system, evidently modeled on ancient India's, in which Platinum cardholders board before Gold, who board before Silver and so on, until we odious hunchbacks in straphanger class are allowed to board, trailing our leashed chickens as they peck their way down the aisle...
...from their natural, Aboriginal mothers. These kids, whose only crime was to be Aboriginal, were abducted by the white authorities to be assimilated, as orphans, into white society. The members of this stolen generation were not told their parents' names, and most would never see their mothers again. This odious experiment was not abandoned until 1970 and did not become general public knowledge until 1997, when a report on it, "Bringing Them Home," by Sir Ronald Wilson, caused national outrage...