Word: sanction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cardinal Egan's shoulder as they chuckled together, while Kerry had to stay away? It helps that Obama is not Catholic. Some Catholics have criticized his support for abortion rights, but as he is not a member of their tradition, they don't feel the same need to sanction him. But more importantly, the political landscape for Catholics has changed since...
...Despite these changes, what remains true about the experience of being gay in this country was just as true almost 40 years ago when our visible, political movement started with the Stonewall Riots at a little bar in Greenwich Village, as it is today. Being LGBT is socially sanctioned not simply because of who we choose to love, but because of the fact that in that act, we are flouting what certain heternomative values that tell us we must be as men and as women. I propose that the true and most noble goal of the movement for LGBT equality...
...behind us, we can hold high positions of leadership and esteem, and we can even legally marry our sweethearts in Memorial Church. Although I wasn’t at Harvard in 1982, I understand that it was a very different place then, and that silence and social sanction were de rigueur for virtually all queer folks...
...This is not to suggest that the West do for Russia what the U.S. did for Germany - integrate an aggressor. Invading a country out of humiliation is as deplorable as doing so for territory or riches. Indeed, the West must be prepared to sanction Putin for the invasion of Georgia. The U.S. and its allies can avoid humiliating Russia by acknowledging that Georgia is not blameless and that the rights of Russian minorities must be protected. But Western countries must refuse to accept Russia's cease-fire assurances without independent monitoring, and they must state that Russia's continued membership...
Though alarmist headlines might suggest otherwise, recent statistics show that the Met has been living up to its international reputation. Across Britain's capital, crime is down by a total of 19% over the past four years, with sanction detections - where an offender has not only been caught but charged as well - up from 12.7% to 25.4% in the same period. "No one in Europe is better," says a senior Italian law-enforcement official...