Word: redressing
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...hard to understand the attraction of Holocaust denial among many Arab intellectuals. After all, the Palestinians ultimately paid a heavy price as the international community sought to redress the unspeakable horrors inflicted on the Jews of Europe. The 1947 U.N. partition plan allocated 55% of Palestine to a Jewish state and 45% to an Arab state, with Jerusalem to be kept under international control. The Arabs of Palestine and its neighboring states rejected the plan, focusing on its implications for their own people rather than on the horrors visited on the Jews by Europeans, and they went...
...small, giving each the opportunity to reach a global market. But we know that isn't always the case. Driving large volumes of traffic to a website[an error occurred while processing this directive] has become a complex marketing challenge requiring lots of time and money. Seeking to redress the balance - at least as far as the travel industry is concerned - is worldhotel-link.com. Originating in 2002 as a project conducted under the auspices of the World Bank to help small and medium-sized hotels in the Mekong area access the Internet, the site now provides booking services for locally owned...
...precisely this failure to acknowledge Peake's breadth of talent that Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, a new and comprehensive guide to his career, seeks to redress. In 1998, Peake's son Sebastian met Alison Eldred, an avid collector of Peake's artworks at Beetles' gallery, and over dinner the new acquaintances decided to compile and edit a book which, says Sebastian, would show his father's "eclecticism and breadth to a new generation...
What conceivable sort of advantage is provided by having non-English speaking parents who work at least 12 hours a day in menial labor? Clearly such people face some economic barriers and racial discrimination, so why is their treatment not worthy of redress? Is there some sort of “racism scale” on which the difficulties faced by Asians are smaller than those faced by either Hispanics or blacks? If so, who makes such a scale and, more importantly, who is doing the weighing...
...effort. Even O?Grady comes to realize that a pleasant little chat around some barbeque pit is not going to set things right. We come to realize, of course, that we are once again in the presence of evil?s banality. We also realize, naturally, that there is no redress for monstrousness of the kind he practiced. Psychopathic behavior of his kind is far beyond the realm of ordinary understanding, let alone forgiveness...