Word: contexts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extension of that spirit be to write laws based on the assumption that women are capable of intelligently making independent decisions? Should laws be based on the idea that the decisions women make are less legally binding than those of men because they’re made in the context of generations-old unequal societal expectations, or should the law give equal weight to the decisions of men and women...
...validity of the policy, Nicholas A. Shiftan ’04 makes a case for the male’s position. “It puts [men] in an unfair, uncomfortable, unnatural position. It’s unnatural to not expect drinking and sex to happen in the same context,” he says. The nature of the policy gives women the benefit of the doubt, which inevitably raises the possibility of men being wrongly accused, he adds...
...reveal, have repeatedly failed to provide effective airport security. In fact, several amendments added to the bill limit the financial liability of airlines, airport security firms and airplane manufacturers in the case that lax security provisions lead to future hijackings. We are concerned that these amendments, in the context of a watered-down security bill, would lessen the responsibility of private security companies (many of which are Republican campaign donors) and are motivated by a desire to satisfy special interests rather than to protect Americans...
...context for these declining service sector conditions must also be noted. State-wide housing prices have increased in the past two decades by 233 percent. All the while, Harvard’s investments have been growing at unprecedented rates, reaching a peak of $19.1 billion last year. Can Harvard afford a living wage? Consult the data: Harvard’s fiscal income for the year 2000 was $2.02 billion. Its expenses that year totaled $1.90 billion. When confronted with an annual operating surplus of $120 million, arguments about Harvard’s financial incapacity to pay a living wage ring...
...targeting Christian believers it is flourishing?even though its belief that the female Jesus has updated the Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official Christian churches, by contrast, downplay the Final Judgment, emphasizing instead codes of behavior. That, plus the sect's insistence that China is "disintegrating from within," appeals to peasants, many of whom are poorly grounded in Christian principles and are angry...