Word: second-guessing
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...terms of the colonial-rule bit, it's pretty hard for someone voting a proxy to second-guess the United States as to whether that's a nation worth having diplomatic relations with," Shattuck said. "I find it easier to believe someone who agrees with the United States government than someone who opposes...
...Second-Guessing. Despite its reluctance to second-guess other branches of Government, the court has often done just that even in sensitive cases. In 1952, it overruled President Truman's unilateral seizure of the strike-threatened steel industry during the Korean War. Last year the court held that Congress had unlawfully excluded Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from the Houseand the ruling stuck...
...delineate what punishments will be meted out for what offenses, however, constitutes a serious error in judgment. Exercising misguided paternalism, they argue that any formulation regarding punishments will be seen by students as threatening. The opposite is true. Under the Deans' plan, students will once again be forced to second-guess the administration over the consequences of their acts. But the absence of a clear-cut definition of punishments turns the usually sober act of civil disobedience into an undignified gamble. Students have a right to know what punishment they must weigh against the dictates of their conscience...
...Possible student representation on the College Council--Radcliffe's highest governing body, similar to Harvard's Corporation. Cliffies were aiming for permanent voting seats on the Council, so "the administration wouldn't have to second-guess us," Batts said last week...
...Jersey Supreme Court, too, will try to second-guess the nation's highest court. Last week it heard oral arguments in an appeal of a 1964 lower court ban of Fanny Hill.* As he picked his way among the piebald pronunciamentos of the U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub plaintively confessed, "I don't know what they mean...