Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Arafat retreated from the negotiating table, and restored his popularity by aligning himself with the intifadah, ending his days under siege at his bombed-out Ramallah headquarters. The siege allowed him to restore his standing as the symbolic personification of Palestinian nationalism, which put him beyond reproach by the militants pressing for changes in the PA. But his heirs among the "Tunisians" enjoy no such immunity, and widespread resentment over corruption and cronyism in the West Bank and Gaza tends to play to the political advantage of the militants - and even of Hamas, which is viewed as more incorruptible than...
...relieved that our conversation had retreated from the precipice of candor and had returned to its wanted level of discourse, wherein my brother is a jerk and I reproach him for his jerkiness...
...Allah, it cannot be considered sacred or infallible. And if clerics have no God-given right to rule, he says, that means that Muslims may freely select their government in a democratic Islamic republic. Kadivar has also formulated a theory on why terrorism is forbidden in Islam--an indirect reproach to an Iranian regime that is widely accused of backing terrorist groups...
Mindful of the checkered history of high-profile evangelists, Warren and his wife seem determined to be the anti--Jim and Tammy Faye. "I want to live above reproach," says the man whose role model is Billy Graham, explaining why he avoids being alone with women other than his wife. The Warrens, who have three grown children, live comfortably but relatively modestly in a $360,000 tract home they bought two years ago, and the reverend drives a Ford SUV. In 2003, with royalties from the Purpose-Driven product line pouring in, Warren stopped taking his $110,000 annual salary...
...candidate nuanced to the point of paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...