Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...legal status of homosexuals and heterosexuals, on the other hand it gives the federal government an excuse to be apathetic with regard to states who fail to take such progressive steps, or, in a worse scenario, chose to adopt legislation that is openly hostile towards gays. Refusing to accept the need for or the legitimacy of "a federal policy in this area," Cheney's compassionate conservatism boils down to cold-hearted complacency...
...were aiming to preserve was not merely the sanctity of the word marriage, but the deeply entrenched and prejudiced belief that a homosexual union could be neither be conventional nor consistent with the precepts of religion and civil law. At the heart of their arguments was an unwillingness to accept that homosexuals be considered normal, holy and legal equals...
Cowin said that he would likely accept the trust's motion to dismiss. He added that his clients, Mary Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes, owners of Up Stairs, would probably then sue Harvard directly...
...accept responsibility," said Murphy on Harvard's collapse. "When you're up 28-0, there is no excuse for losing the game, period...
...stay in the balcony of the abortion debate, looking down on the drama from the crowded middle seats. Their feelings tip and tilt according to circumstance and conditions: Was there a waiting period, counseling? If it's a teenager, do her parents know? Surveys find that 65% of people accept first-trimester abortion, but 69% oppose anything later than that. The laws reflect the public ambivalence of a country that wants abortion to be available but not easy. And pro-life forces have done everything in their power to make it harder, by focusing on the unimaginably hard cases...