Word: affrontive
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...people react to the imposition of sanctions on their country. Research suggests that when sanctions are applied against democratic states, people become more supportive, not less supportive, of the regime. Enfranchised citizens tend to perceive their government as legitimate, and hence tend to perceive international sanctions as an affront to everyone in the nation, not just the national leaders...
...fighting for, it is surely not so that the oil ministers of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can once again drink tea together around a conference table. There should be a new understanding that all efforts to allocate production and set prices for oil are an affront to both the values and the interests of the U.S. During the first oil crisis in 1973, people who urged an occupation of the oil fields to end the oil gouge were dismissed as crazy. Surely occupying the oil fields and not ending the gouge is crazier...
...time-odd TV series lured millions of addicted viewers to its season finale. ABC announced that the show would return in the fall. And to complete the hat trick, Lynch copped the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart, the writer-director's latest affront to the cinematic status quo. Flanked by his radiant companion Isabella Rossellini, awash in the cheers and scattered outraged hoots that will forever follow his film, Lynch smiled innocently and declared, "It's a true dream come true...
However, I find Kenneth Katz's editorial piece on his "love" for crew (March 17,1990) not only an affront to committed students in general, but yet another monologue that unfortunately reinforces the stereotypes that previl concerning athletes in general, and rowers in particular...
...injunction about "facts and the dreary methods required to determine them." Taking advantage of the vulnerability of graduate students to the views of senior faculty in their field, it seeks to intimidate those who might want to teach in another concentration with real intellectual value. This is an affront to the longstanding commitment of the University itself to academic freedom, community and liberal education...