Word: oughtness
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Crane also said the capacity set by the commission of 279 sitting patrons is less than the 289-person capacity set by the building code and that the building code ought to apply...
...once in the history of HIV, a strategy that ought to work seemed in fact to succeed. Within weeks of starting combination therapy, 7 out of 10 men and women with AIDS begin to get better. Blood tests show that in many of them, the viral load has dropped below detectable levels. Relieved of the burden of fighting HIV, their long-suffering immune systems can finally tackle the deadly fungal and bacterial infections that have taken hold in their lungs, intestines and brains. Fevers break; lesions disappear; energy returns...
...press conference in Canberra, Australia, last month, Clinton was asked about the allegations of illegal campaign contributions solicited by former Democratic party fund raiser John Huang. The Chief Executive responded, "One of the things I would urge you to do--remembering Mr. Richard Jewell in Atlanta... we ought to just get the facts out, and they should be reported." Perhaps the President and Jewell, whose life was ruined through no fault of his own, can get together in Atlanta and empathize over slaw dogs at the Varsity...
Fundamentally, though, the argument is simply that the CPI needs fixing to reflect reality. Explanations are often couched in arcane jargon, but the principles ought to ring a bell with anyone who kicks at a tire or wheels a cart through a food store...
...specifics of an honor code vary, but the principle behind one is non-negotiable: Students who have voluntarily entered a community of scholarship ought to be able to trust one another and to live by a certain standard of morality that their signature implies they are willing to do--and that an atmosphere in which a community has agreed to live by an honor code is a more conductive one to producing moral people...