Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a month Chairman Clerides had collected 40 signed complaints of torture during interrogations; he submitted them to the British Governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding. The British administration brushed off the charges as typical EOKA atrocity propaganda. To show its low regard for the Human Rights Commission, it arrested one of Cyprus' leading lawyers and brought charges against others. But news of the commission's work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers...
...only skirted the edges of the criminal world. Green Eyes dominates the triangle by virtue of the power which his crime confers on him. Each of the others tries to gain something of that power for himself by excluding the other from the murderer's regard...
...course, we still hope that the government of Israel will see that its best immediate interests and longterm interests lie in compliance with the U.N. and in the declaration of the U.S. with regard to its future...
...third speaker, Louis Osborn, professor of Physics at M.I.T., emphasized the problem of technical judgment versus moral judgment. He said that much of the difficulty lay in the difference between percentages and total numbers. Many of the problems arising with regards to the desirability of atom tests lie within the realm of human values--whether one should regard 100 mutated babies as 100 tragedies or as merely a total misfortune of one-forty-thousandth of the total babies born each year...
...start with, partly cat and partly humans, because Miss Sarton's imagination allows her to take his viewpoint from the start. She knows that though cats can come to have human characteristics by living with people, still cats have their dignity, which human people must regard, especially those who dare write books about cats. Her point seems to be that it's easier for her to be a cat lover than for a cat to be a lover of people...