Word: rejection
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...thinkers believe that an avowedly communist dictatorship can be re- established. Popular hatred of the last one runs too deep. But many do fear an alliance of former communist apparatchiks with Slavic nationalists who reject parliamentary democracy as un-Russian...
After two hours of election-year rhetoric from councillors and persuasive speeches from citizens, the council voted 6 to 3 to reject a plan that would restrict industrial development on 75 acres of land next to the Charles River and near...
...Thomas is a near-total political creation, and the Senate should reject him. Not because he's a conservative, as the liberal interest groups hope, but because he's not as qualified as he should be. Obviously his rejection wouldn't prompt Bush to name a moderate. But maybe he would pick someone with more experience...
When the Village Voice was offered a free-lance article last month that purported to expose the homosexuality of a high Pentagon official, editors of the radical New York City weekly decided to reject the piece as an unwarranted invasion of privacy. Last week the same editors permitted a Voice columnist to summarize the allegations, complete with the official's name. The rationale for the turnaround: the man's identity had been so widely circulated by other news organizations that continued restraint would have been "a futile exercise...
...identify with our victimization. It is one thing to be victimized; it is another to make an identity out of it. I am not willing to be a boy because I am inferior, and I am not going to be a boy because I am a victim. I reject both avenues to being a boy. The one thing a white liberal can never do with a black is be honest and tell him what he tells his own children...