Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crimp in Serbian aggression -- or at least send a message of retribution to Belgrade. In the long run, the international community must develop a new ethic, and new institutions to match, concerned less with the sanctity of borders than with the rights of people. Until it does, the dilemma posed in Bosnia is likely to be repeated elsewhere, again and again...
...more appropriate, if we wish to resolve a dilemma we cannot solve, for the legislature, which is the representative of public opinion, to search the national conscience and discover what sort of compromise Americans have been able to reach in their private consciences. Such an empirical approach would only compromise the court's status as the guardian of principles untouched by politics, but it is the only feasible approach...
...grain but was forced upon him by circumstances -- black uprisings, international isolation, economic rot. "Now, at the first sign of things not going his way," says Brink, "his real colors are beginning to show -- his conservatism and belief in force as the only way of getting out of a dilemma...
Laws condemning "baby-selling" only increase the surrogate mother's dilemma: paradoxically, while the courts often view her as a selfish contract-breaker when she sues for some type of parental rights, this new law also condemns her as a selfish slave-trader when she consents to be compensated for the child's loss...
...another genuine dilemma. Whatever the actual merits of Cop Killer, if Time Warner withdraws the album now the company will be perceived as giving in to outside pressure. That is a disastrous precedent for a global conglomerate...