Word: proclaiming
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India’s economy is booming; its leaders proudly proclaim it is the world’s largest democracy. To promote this unqualified positive vision of modern India, however, is to ignore the many negative aspects of development that tell a less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been in pockets, leaving huge numbers of people both invisible and vulnerable. Until recently, the government tolerated civil society, human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations that are often the only voice for India’s otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government’s attitude towards these groups...
...imagine Hillary Clinton actually giving up her quest for the presidency? Anyone who heard her proclaim "full-speed onto the White House" on Tuesday night and back that up with her declaration Wednesday that "I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee" will find it difficult to visualize what a Clinton concession would look like. She and her husband have been the Democratic establishment for the past 16 years and they have not conceded defeat since he lost the Arkansas governorship in 1980. And she has so recently found an effective political voice, sounding a populist trumpet...
...sovereignty are finalized with the erection of borders and the drawing of demarcation lines. But within the system of representational geopolitics that we have, power requires a discrete entity that can itself wield power. A discrete entity does not, however, necessarily require cultural assimilation; were the region to proclaim its collective autonomy, each nation would have to join willingly and in a way that respects the linguistic, ethnic, economic, and political diversity that the region contains...
...many, faith cannot be confined to private settings. This becomes significant when considering the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, which some consider proselytizing. During its annual Islam Awareness Week last month, the Harvard Islamic Society offered students a taste of the Islamic tradition by having a member proclaim the adhan on Widener steps every day at 1 p.m., a time when the Yard is bustling with students. From the time of its earliest recitation, the adhan has asked Muslims to leave behind everything and hasten to prayer, so that they may join their companions in worship. The adhan then...
...presence of even one American soldier ... will trump any goodwill policy the United States attempts to carry out in the Middle East," he writes. He also recommends an end to the offering of rewards, to the publication of most-wanted lists and to the staging of press conferences that proclaim the capture of top terrorists, since jihadis regard all these as badges of honor. It would be better, Sageman says, to treat terrorists like common criminals...