Word: respects
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...Bible says that Jesus was crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomon was destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam the apple on the 13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...
...lofty expectations placed upon them by their national audience--expectations of championships which have been met more often than not in recent years. This season, however, neither the men nor the women have been picked No. 1 by the preseason polls, and the Crimson is determined to reclaim the respect to which it has grown accustomed...
Likewise, the belief in human rights, so central to the authors' arguments, requires that the "struggle for true self-determination" proceed along lines which respect these basic human rights. From this point of view, self-determination requires a certain amount of careful self-monitoring, one might say "suppression," of the violent strains within such a movement. Once again, this sort of watchfulness must not be seen as a toilsome burden. As a nationalist movement fighting for statehood, the Palestinian Authority must accept both these responsibilities. It ought not to see these tasks in the onerous light which Bishara and Fahmawi...
What can we learn from the curious silence of our third group of religionists on this issue? Don't they respect the Bible? Evidently, God thought twig-picking to be just as abominable as homosexuality, as well as cursing your parents or not being a virgin on your wedding night. He did mandate the same punishment for each of these sins...
While the Wye agreement asks P.A. security officials to respect human rights, neither the Israelis nor the Americans expect that they will, which will turn up the heat on Arafat even further. Says "Omar," an activist in the military wing of Hamas: "We cannot let Arafat's dogs beat us and eat us, and do nothing. What do you expect of us? That we turn the other cheek?" Adds a colleague, "Ali": "We have reached the conclusion that preaching about national unity is not going to achieve anything. We have to do it the way others did, in Sudan, Afghanistan...