Word: provenances
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is America, land that we love. This is America, a country built on ideals of truth and justice. This is America, where you are innocent until proven guilty...
...this moment, Bryant is innocent because he hasn’t been proven guilty. Playing basketball isn’t a question of if he did it—it isn’t even a question. He has every right to attempt achieving normalcy during this time of upheaval...
...proven to be successful in military as well as economic and humanitarian spheres. In the past ten years or so, the world has been given multiple examples of effective U.N. intervention. In the Gulf War of 1991, Kuwaiti liberation succeeded because of a massive U.N.-led multilateral effort, and few can argue with the result. A U.N.-backed, NATO-led effort to save Kosovo from the territorial machinations of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia was equally successful. It is U.N. bodies like the International Criminal Tribunal that are striving to bring justice to Yugoslavia and Rwanda...
...state is impossible. Unilateral interventions in countries such as Somalia failed. But when interventions do take place, who establishes order, enforces rule of law, and picks up the pieces? Only the U.N. can legitimately fulfill these tasks. Frankly, that is not a bad situation: the U.N. has proven it can work and we all know how to make it work better...
Compromise is stronger than conflict, multilateralism is stronger than unilateralism and the legacy of the U.N.’s accomplishments is stronger than polemical editorials. Perhaps Oct. 24, 2004, will be marked less by inflammatory rhetoric than by reasoned discussion of an organization that has proven time and again that it can bring about change where no other person or nation...