Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giacalone says she "does not seek convictions for the sake of convictions, as if scoring points in some game. It's a balancing act between the claims of justice and civilized society's proclivity for compassion. You don't lock someone up because you can." But the woman who once walked to school along 101st Avenue does not have much compassion for the men who hung around the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club; she wants to lock up John Gotti not because she can, but because he deserves...
Once these two very different parties confronted each other there was little choice but to cancel the dinner because both groups--especially the dinner guests--were becoming increasingly violent. But there was an option available to the University, before the cancellation became a necessity, which was ignored for the sake of illusion...
...more Chinese writers are getting away from being dominated by social issues and are writing literature for the sake of literature itself," said Lee, a University of Chicago Chinese literature professor...
...everyone will agree with this, but for the sake of argument let us stipulate that homosexuality and other variant forms of sex are distasteful and should generally be discouraged. Let us also stipulate that the kind of pornography that flourishes in most cities is also distasteful and to be discouraged. Now even if this were all true -- and a majority of Americans think it is -- does it mean that the forces of law and government should proclaim such sexual activities illegal and threaten all offenders with prison terms? More generally, does it mean that the permissiveness of the past...
...opportunity--available for half a year during the 1960s by virtue of an act of Parliament--to renounce his inherited peerage and run for the elected House of Commons. Nor, in all likelihood, would he seriously consider giving up his seat in the House of Lords for the sake of a constituency should the opportunity present itself once more, ventures Harvard Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar--who held a Labour seat in Commons--and other associates of Carrington. "He's an efficient, no-nonsense politician who never attempts to fool people by verbiage, but he's perhaps [indifferent...