Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...given that many public health systems in Africa do not have the skills, equipment or resources to protect their citizens even against the lethal health crises they battle every day, the truth is that the threat of another disease - even a pandemic flu - tends to elicit shrugs in this sickness-struck continent. If asked what preparations they are making for the possibility of swine flu's arrival, most African governments opt for the same kind of wordy non-statement issued by African Union chairman Jean Ping on Thursday: "We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary...
...objective fears of persecution—it is unreasonable that Munir be forced to leave America and family before finishing his studies. Munir has applied for deferred action so that he can finish his degree at Harvard, and this is where the University can play an important role in protecting one of its students from deportation. Harvard has one of the strongest support networks for international students. But the Harvard International Office—supposedly dedicated to helping students like Munir navigate the byzantine bureaucracy of the American immigration system—has shown a deplorable lack of involvement...
...Roma child. Tensions grew a year later with the formation of a national paramilitary civilian group, which calls itself the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard.) With uniforms that bear right wing nationalist symbols, the Garda drew the ire of the Roma community because of the group's stated mandate to protect Hungarians against 'Roma crime.' (Read: "Is Hungary the Financial Crisis' Next Iceland...
City Councillor Sam Seidel said that lawmakers should ideally be able to both protect businesses and to provide funds to towns, but that the current economic climate necessitated a trade off between...
...small towns, gets so high that arrests are often based on nothing but scarce evidence," says Beijing-based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. "Even though they know it's illegal to force a confession by means of torture, the police still resort to it because it's hard for suspects to protect their own rights, and they don't have the right to keep silent...