Word: suppressive
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...gonna happen. I'm a Wasp. I was raised to suppress my emotions.' ANDERSON COOPER, CNN anchor, refusing to dance with Ellen DeGeneres on her show...
...Mixed-commission courts were not post-conflict institutions intended to mete out justice for war crimes. They were, instead, functional components of Britain’s global efforts to suppress the slave trade in peacetime. Countries ratified the courts’ founding treaties because of incentives like money, threat of attack, and involvement. Each nation had a judge and a commissioner of arbitration involved, holding equal power on the court benches. The model was largely successful; the mixed commissions liberated about 80,000 slaves in their 50 years of existence...
...Others believe that care should be taken to avoid excessive encouragement of entrepreneurship on campus, arguing that it could potentially suppress the drive and spirit necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. “Is entrepreneurship something that you should shove down people’s throats? Should I have been pursued as a key future entrepreneur? No,” says Silverman. “That’s something that I had to look out for myself, I chose not to, until the time came along when I was more interested in that...
...like ours—is not quite “secular.” And, in order to prevent religious parties from coming to power, we enable far greater evils, such as sustaining dictators like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The result is that we fail both to suppress religious groups and to promote democracy; religious groups merely become more popular, and Mubarak tightens his restrictions on freedoms. Yet our narrow mindset leads us to continue supporting the secular party even when indications that the religious party is more democratic come to light...
...first Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino), who had a carnal run-in or two with Eddie, is in her 60s; and Dr. Manhattan is 56, though he looks great for his age - and facing serious midlife introspection. International celebrities for decades, they have a lot of history to remember or suppress, to warm or haunt them...