Word: rejection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...People, patients and the general public are going to be very angry," he says of his book. Predicting that psychiatrists will reject his criticisms, he adds. "And sooner or later this total silence on the part of analysis is going to backfire...
...Mondale has been endorsed by a host of party leaders; they know him as a man of his word who turns ideas into policy through politics as it ought to be practiced--through coalition building and compromising that makes up good government--not by posturing. Democrats this year should reject the pathetic backlash against government experience and leadership that seems to arise among the electorate every four years and leads to presidents like Reagan...
However the Corporation, and particularly President Bok, continued through this period to reject the idea of Harvard divesting from companies that do business in South Africa. Though Bok was and is clearly and firmly opposed to apartheid, he claimed it was unclear whether or not the presence of American companies in South Africa was a bad thing. Bok's comments in the spring of 1978 that seemed to defend the idea of American investment in South Africa were quoted in newspapers like the Johannesburg Star and the Rand Daily Mail as the official opinion of Harvard University. The student movement...
Most, I believe, reject the snappy comeback, defensiveness, haughtiness, and nasty laughter, from the outset of our teaching careers. I imagine that many people go into the profession, which they know it or not, because someone filled the classroom for them with affectionate attention. When the look I give a student conveys a particularly challenging attitude of good expectation, some of that attitude comes straight from my fourth-grade teacher, Florence Sayer. The student I'm looking at sees a look that was directed at me in 1951, and that had been in use in dingy green classrooms as early...
...observers reject the Sullivan principles as useless. Those who maintain that the principles have been effective in promoting some change fall generally into two groups. One group believes that the principles as they are presently applied have done all that can be expected of their limited purview. Further change, this group maintains, depends on a radical reformation of the principles and an expansion of their goals. The second group believes that further progress can be achieved in South Africa without changing the principles...