Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These issues, of course, do have a political dimension as well as a moral dimension. I don't deny that, but that doesn't mean we're not permitted to talk about them. But our perspective must always be from the moral or ethical dimension. I reject out of hand that we have taken a leftward swing. What we are trying to do is focus on the teaching of the Gospel as we understand it, and to apply that teaching to the various social issues of the day. Our central theme is our respect...
Most experts agree that the new leadership will be less dogmatic and more pragmatic, but just as tough as the old. Cautions George Breslauer of the University of California at Berkeley: "I completely reject the view that younger Soviet leaders are reformists. They are equally hard line...
Despite the seeming appeal of the guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict, the various state legislatures where the proposal is under consideration should reject it. The verdict, under pretense of preserving the venerable belief that an understanding of right and wrong is inherent in the concept of "guilt," invites jury abuse that would, in effect, lead to the conviction of innocent people...
Those people that sponsor the ERA--and it doesn't mention women anywhere in the ERA, it doesn't mention women's rights anywhere in it, it talks about sex-they are proponents of lesbian marriage, homosexual marriage, things of that nature, which I categorically resist and categorically reject as part of a basis for a sound society...
Kathleen A. Nixon, a spokesman for the Arboretum, predicted yesterday that voters will reject the referendum. She added that even if it receives approval, the chances of a developer buying the land are minimal...