Word: suppressing
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Because truth will prevail. Here's a more promising argument: We should be tolerant because if we suppress controversial or repugnant opinions or experiments in living, we could very well be depriving ourselves of ideas that are truer or better than those opinions and habits we hold now. We should by no means go so far as relativists and skeptics in asserting that there is no truth to be discovered. But we should admit that as individuals, we certainly have no monopoly on the truth and could be wrong in our opinions. We should therefore be open-minded...
...sexually abused often suppress memories of the incidents for years and are unaware of the causes of their depression and problems with interaction in the work place, said Carolyn A. Ryder clinical psychologist at the Medical School...
...injection of the extract of the kudzu root, a Chinese herb, led the hamsters to "significantly suppress the free-choice ethanol intake" without any negative side effects...
...nepotism and undue influence raised last year. In fact, the changes will probably make it even easier for Liem and his friends to dismiss tutors who fail to toe the party line. At best, they are poorly conceived; at worst, they are part of a concerted effort to suppress free speech and obscure the malfeasance that characterizes Liem's despotic reign at Dunster...
...anything can be worse than Liem's actions, it's Jewett's inaction. He has effectively endorsed the house master in his campaign to suppress free speech. His weakness in the face of clear wrongdoing raises the question of whether he is too ineffective to be dean of Harvard College...