Word: respecting
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...classic use of U.S. military intervention, has been to enforce respect for American lives and property. Thus, in 1801, marines landed in Tripoli to free the crew of a seized U.S. ship. In 1849, a U.S. naval force debarked in Turkey to gain the release of an imprisoned American. In 1851, U.S. troops intervened on Johanna Island, off East Africa, to exact redress for the imprisonment of an American whaling captain...
...their first public school. Negroes won tall-tale reputations as cooks and bulldoggers, and as con-men and outlaws too. As Durham and Jones unfelicitously put it, "To be a good cowboy one needed first of all to be a good man, for a wild longhorn had no more respect for a white Texan than for a Negro...
...both Macquarrie and Come respect the movement, and others feel that the process thinkers-such as Cobb, Union's Daniel Day Williams and Schubert Ogden of Perkins School of Theology-may be on the verge of an exciting event: the articulation of a U.S.-bred philosophic theology that might eventually develop into an alternative to that ubiquitous Teutonic import, existentialism...
Sunday Johnson admitted to what had clearly been the purpose of intervention from the beginning: to halt a Communist take-over. With great reluctance, with deep sadness, after long and prayerful consideration, the United States destroyed a fifty-year-old tradition of increasing respect for the independence of its Latin American neighbors...
...Education's Inglis Lecture before an audience of 200 in Longfellow Hall, Ulich emphasized that religion and education cannot be "squeezed into watertight departments, even by a legal decision." He warned that the schools' freedom from the task of religious indoctrination may become an excuse for "laziness with respect to teaching the spiritual tradition of humanity...