Word: restraints
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...Restraint in the face of a threat demonstrates moral courage and maturity, not weakness. The Western world professes to believe in democratic freedoms. People without democratic freedoms cherish the possibility of having them. Rather than letting our professed beliefs direct our actions, however, we are attempting to impose democratic freedoms on people who lack them. Is it any wonder that the Western world is loathed? Ray Jones Kamloops, Canada...
...Rather than moderate its behavior, the latest string of events may have tipped the balance in Hamas toward the hardliners. Those within Hamas that had argued for restraint and some form of coexistence with Israel - not to mention warned that permitting ongoing rocket fire from Gaza was a road to disaster - are now being drowned out by those calling for a resumption of violence. The images of the family destroyed by the Gaza beach explosion have darkened the mood on the Palestinian street, where there is a growing appetite for revenge for Hamas to tap into. And as long...
...Wind Done Gone” wasn’t gone for long.Just one month later, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction, saying the order “amounts to an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.” That year, Randall’s book hit The New York Times’ bestseller list. But the legal fight had left Randall shaken.“The attempt by the Mitchell estate to use the copyright laws to effect censorship was shocking and chilling...
...unity that until recently seemed instinctive for the Bush Republicans. But hunger for a November landslide has not kept Democrats from flying off in a variety of ideological and strategic directions even as the G.O.P. was faltering. At a time when Democratic House candidates are finding that spending restraint resonates among voters and are running on fiscal discipline, many Democrats continue to support the President's deficit spending. Democrats were so split over Iraq that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi couldn't settle on any national leader to give the party's response to President George W. Bush's State...
...committing slayings, is expected to extend into the summer. Three months after TIME published the first account of the incident, new details about the events leading up to the fateful morning in Haditha have shed light on why a small group of Marines apparently abandoned all semblance of self-restraint in a deadly burst of vengeance. But other questions are likely to remain--about who bears ultimate responsibility for the killings, about other possible incidents of military misconduct in Iraq and about whether the U.S. can do anything to stop Haditha from happening again...