Word: vocalized
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...discussion became bogged down, Summers, who had been nearly silent at recent Faculty meetings, took a vocal and commanding presence today as he urged professors to move to a vote...
...still exemplify the special relationship that has traditionally existed between the U.S. and Great Britain, practically finishing each other's sentences as they trouble-shoot their way through Iran?s nuclear brinksmanship, Israeli-Palestinian hostilities or sectarian tensions in Iraq. But as the two learned on Friday, a vocal part of the British people don't necessarily share a sense of kinship with their brethren ? or at least their brethrens' elected government ? across the Atlantic...
...State have pushed for a more flexible approach to the Chinese, who until now only recognize the so-called "Patriotic Church" made up of Catholics not obedient to Rome. China also insists on the Vatican cutting ties with Taiwan. But Benedict?s choice of Zen, who has been a vocal critic of human rights abuses and an advocate of religious liberty, could be seen as a direct challenge to Beijing. Message: Benedict?s diplomacy is armed with both carrots and sticks...
...It’s a challenge that every movement like this has faced—in any sort of push for non discrimination, you start with a group that by definition isn’t protected. It makes it very difficult for that group to openly or vocally demand certain things,” says Thoreson.The more palpable effect, though, is that without an open transgendered community, few students to understand exactly what the word transgender even means.Taktin M. Oey ’08, for example, says that he only vaguely understands that a transgendered individual...
...concert’s primary supporters had much more suspect motives. The concert, according to its website, was organized with “guidance and logistical support” from the American Islamic Congress (AIC). Supporters of the concert may be surprised to know that the AIC was a vocal supporter of the Iraq invasion. In 2002, AIC director Zainab al-Suwaij stated her position clearly: “The real question is not whether to liberate Iraq, but why we have not done so already.” In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, al-Suwaij wrote...