Word: offending
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Nonetheless, "U.S. companies should not disregard ethical obligations to encourage changes in the apartheid system simply because such changes would offend South African law," the report states. Committee members say the difficulty of their demands is evidence of their commitment to produce change in South Africa through Harvard's investments...
Richard Halverson, 68, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, on "word merchants" in the chamber: "Help them to appreciate the power of words... to honor, to disparage; to encourage, to disappoint; to comfort, to embarrass; to edify, to offend; to strengthen, to weaken; to motivate, to immobilize; to give hope, to frustrate; to purify, to pollute; to build, to destroy...
...Harmony is in extremely poor taste by anybody's standards," said Eric Broudy, Director of the Brown News Bureau. "It offended every possible group you could offend...
...when they can most likely look forward to another four years of a President who will do it for them? Obviously the real issues of the day just don't interest the Republicans--they've already got their tax cuts and dismantled welfare state. It doesn't seem to offend their moral sensibilities that during the past three years eight million more Americans have slipped below the poverty line. It doesn't anger them that Black unemployment is double that of white, and that programs and benefits that had once been the cushion between subsistence and deprivation have been abruptly...
...conflict. Imbedded in Eban's argument is the assumptions that nations more often than not will have competing interests and it is the goal of statesmen to keep these rivalries at manageable levels. Progress he warns, will most often be unspectacular and painfully slow and actions may very well offend the public conception's of morality, especially in democracies. What The New Diplomacy evolves into, then is an eloquent defense of the traditional realist approach to international relations...