Word: constraints
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Despite this constraint, the IDAF has continued to exert a strong positive influence in South Africa. During a recent testimonial dinner in Cambridge, Woods spoke in emotional terms of "the hundreds of people I know of" whom the IDAF has helped. And a Black South African studying in this area who asked not to be identified says the IDAF "has saved lives, supported countless families of prisoners, and proved to be a big thorn in the side of the government...
...Japanese, who see their world in terms of duties and obligations, have learned to do so because they have always had to live with constraint. If you live on an island (to paraphrase an English poet who did) you cannot be one. The Japanese have evolved a whole system of forms, etiquette and images, a culture that makes the compression of numbers tolerable. It strikes an endlessly interesting balance between artifice and nature. The three legs of this system are adaptation, consensus and miniaturization...
Despite this constraint, the IDAF has continued to exert a strong positive influence in South Africa. During a recent testimonial dinner in Cambridge, Woods spoke in emotional terms of "the hundreds of people I know of" whom the IDAF has helped. And a Black South African studying in this area who asked not to be identified says the IDAF "has saved lives, supported countless families of prisoners, and proved to be a big thorn in the side of the government...
...sure, the rule has two great exceptions. It is no accident, however, that these two exceptions, the movements of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, took place within the political and moral boundaries of liberal democratic politics steeped in constitutional values, and thus susceptible to the constraint of law and the power of shame. Where law and shame are less easily mobilized, nonviolence has not fared well...
...argue that this issue is somehow different from any other, and therefore merits the kind of arm-twisting advocated by many Council members, is a pretty weak excuse. Clearly, the procedures decided upon the Standing Committees will stand as powerful precedents in years to come. But in advocating active constraint to force the votes of its representatives, the Council will be setting a precedent far more dangerous and far more threatening to its reputation and perhaps, its very existence. Catherine D. Thomas...