Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spokesmen for Harvard and MIT labs have said they fear that if such a committee were established, antivivisection activists would use it to forbid most of the research now conducted. CCRR spokesmen disagree, saying their members only oppose cruel or frivolous research...
...notion that people possess certain inalienable rights, even in the conduct of their familial affairs, is dismissed as a "poetic" musing by this Supreme Court nominee. Thus, for instance, the Constitution--despite its prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment"--does not forbid the sterilization of prisoners...
...school relationships had soured. Bickel had died while Bork was in Washington. Professors muttered that Bork's onetime freewheeling search for intellectual theories had been replaced by commercial pursuits. Bork, who usually stayed above academic politics, became involved in a losing 1978 campaign against a proposal to forbid law firms that discriminated against homosexuals from recruiting at Yale. "Contrary to assertions made, homosexuality is obviously not an unchangeable condition like race or gender," he wrote...
...result of the incident, the legislators in 1984 toughened the so-called Boland amendment to forbid any U.S. military aid to the contras. But by then some officials felt so committed to bringing down the Marxist Sandinista government that they were driven to circumvent, if not outright break, the law. Some Reagan officials have since taken refuge in legalistic quibbles about exactly what the Boland amendment prohibited. In truth, the amendment, like Congress's whole policy toward Nicaragua, was no model of clarity. But North, according to one participant in his schemes, knew full well what he was doing. According...
...makes Bork unsympathetic to the court's 1973 pronouncement in Roe v. Wade of a right to abortion -- he has called Roe an "unconstitutional decision" -- and unsupportive of arguments favoring a right to homosexual conduct. Conversely, since the Constitution explicitly mentions the death penalty, Bork believes the court cannot forbid...