Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professional politician, Donald Dworak is used to fielding hostile questions of the have-you-stopped-beat-ing-your-wife variety. But this is worse by far-unfair, underhanded, unAmerican...
...told the senators, however, that the proposed amendment would place an unfair burden on pregnant women "to dedicate their bodies, their futures and sometimes their very lives to the survival of the unborn...
Confronted with the confusing technicalities of the insanity defense, juries tend to fall back on down-to-earth considerations. Explains Justice Department Lawyer William Hardy: "They accept the defense where the defendant is guilty but it seems unfair to send him to prison. This is a way for the jury to compromise." They are least likely to accept an insanity plea when the defendant is extremely violent or dangerous. Example: the trial of a Californian nicknamed "the Vampire Killer," who disemboweled several of his six murder victims, drank their blood and ate their flesh. He was sentenced to death...
...Paris" does not begin with this advantage. It is an elegy, haunted by a sense of loss. The period it covers, 1937-1957, was precisely the time when the queen city began, like some Venice of modernism, to slide into debility. It is a simplification, but not a wholly unfair one, to say that during those 20 years Paris felt, interpreted and amplified all the historical tensions of its time except within the visual arts. The moral triumphs of the period, in France, belong more to literature than to painting or sculpture...
...editorial on Gay Rights, for example, exposes the usual liberal pattern of favoritism for certain minority groups. Whether or not this is desirable remains beside the point here. The fact that this policy is veiled by the Crimson's cry of unfair treatment is particularly disturbing...