Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polls, petitions and demonstrations have been used by campus activists, particularly by the divestment movement. For the first time in my four years here, tactics such as the intrusive shantytown and agressive petitioning have replaced the less invasive methods of teach-ins and speeches. These new or revived strategies reflect a frustration less with the intransigence of Harvard's governors than with the lack of a student groundswell in support of divestment...
Other Europeans, while not putting anything past Gaddafi, were waiting to see the U.S. evidence, with one standout exception. In remarks known to reflect the views of his government, Sir Oliver Wright, British Ambassador to the U.S., told a South Carolina audience that there is indeed "uncontrovertible evidence that the Libyans have been the instigators of the most recent terrorist incidents...
...when the ideals of religion are made to serve the expediencies of nationalism. In the Middle East, as in the author's own Ireland, mixing God and politics has been a formula for intractability. O'Brien carefully works his way to this point, noting that rhetoric does not always reflect reality. For example, the Jewish state derives its reason for being from ancient texts that have little relationship to liberal theories about the consent of the governed. Yet Israel is a vigorous democracy. By contrast, the 1968 Palestinian National Covenant calls for the establishment of a secular democracy even though...
...This match really doesn't reflect what we're capable of," said the disappointed Bickley. "We only played [at] 20% [strength], maybe 10%," he said...
...often reflect that this is the exact same feeling I thought it would...