Word: redressing
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Government professors study politics and representation. When graduate students choose not to teach in Government, they hold meetings to ascertain public opinion and to redress grievances...
...legislator who ventures a word in support of gun control. Speaking before Congress last year, James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded during John Hinckley's 1981 shooting of Ronald Reagan, called the N.R.A. an "evil empire" that tries to block any effort to redress the tragedy of gun violence...
Both victims, who were moderate members of the Basque separatist group Herri Batasuna, had hoped that ending their party's ten-year boycott of the parliament would spur negotiations with Madrid to redress Basque grievances. As news of the murders spread, thousands of Basques went into the streets of Bilbao, San Sebastian and other cities, smashing windows and burning buses and cars...
...redress all grievances, we have a new Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
...Brown Buckner, whose father was the plaintiff in the original case, was among the Topeka parents who revived the lawsuit in 1979. Says her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, the family spokeswoman: "The quality of education was slipping, and it appeared that the only way to get attention was legal redress...