Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This frightening event should make us all less complacent about our relief that the experience of victimized groups in modern society groups like Blacks, Jews, Irish. Armenians, Palestinians, etc, is an automatic guarantee that such groups will themselves respect and uphold the norms of civility and fairness. These precious and Fragile norms must be learned, actively nurtured, and vigilantly defended. This is the only way they will ever endure...
Johnson apologized only for the fact that the officers did not explain why they stopped the three students after it had been determined that they were not involved. He did not apologize for any act of discrimination--saying the students did resemble the suspects--and uphold the officers' actions as legal and justified. Most severs, the matter is being treated as a specific incident and not as part of a general problem...
...March 24, 1978, a few months after Reverend Sullivan formulated his code of "ethics" for business in South Africa, the ACSR had already recommended Harvard's enforcement of the Sullivan Principles. On page seven of his open letter of April 1978, Derek Bok said the Harvard Corporation would uphold the Sullivan Principles as recommended by the ACSR. The reason that the ACSR had to make that same recommendation again in 1983 is that Derek Bok had lied. The Harvard Corporation never actually carried out the ACSR's recommendation as promised...
...fortyish, a bit bedraggled, quizzically bemused. He is a professor at a provincial English university, bright in his specialty, perhaps, but farcically inept in worldly matters. He tries to uphold the values of humane liberalism but keeps misplacing them, and occasionally wonders sadly whether they exist any more...
...take oaths as Marine officers that we will uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States, and they are exercising their constitutional rights," he said...