Word: unjust
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Uproar over the presidential election spilled into Cambridge Common yesterday, in a sea of 19,000 "voided ballots," planted by a group of Graduate School of Design (GSD) students dissatisfied with "unjust election and voting processes" nationwide...
...third act. None talk about where they come from or where they are going; any attempts to reconstruct a past are shouted down as lies. These people simply exist in the inn, and their incessant friction attempts to find out whether an indolence forced upon them by an unjust society can have any meaning. With nothing better to do, moral posturing is pervasive...
...issue, as the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan, showed when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state. Rather than the political aspirations of a governor, the focus of public attention to the death penalty must be those human lives threatened by a system that is manifestly unjust...
...third argument is that the Palestinians irrationally rejected a "generous" peace offer. Everyone wants peace, but an unjust peace is both unfair and impractical...
Whether Saro-Wiwa was the innocent martyr he is made out to be is a matter of contention. Some argue that Saro-Wiwa invited and incited the Ogoni to unjust civil disobedience; others claim that while he never ordered murders, he is still responsible for fanning the flames of frustration in the hearts of the Ogoni with his words and actions. Undoubtedly, Saro-Wiwa mobilized the Ogoni to counter the gross injustice of their situation. He believed in the accountability of Shell to Ogoni, who's land was being exploited; and he believed they should be compensated for their loss...