Word: missionize
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...Public attention and help will only last so long. Even with the aid of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and international charities, the country's far-flung provinces are neglected. Honiara's bureaucrats-foreign and local-don't get out this way. Violence in the capital eventually shows up in the remote islands as severe shortages of food, chronically ill and unschooled children and dire family poverty. This lack of administrative oversight and political will brings resentment, to be sure. But it also allows charlatans to flourish. When natural resources such as fish and trees aren...
...talking about social organizations in this area) exist, such as the 300-plus member student group Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB). Though groups like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let?...
...long—American women have had the vote for less than a hundred years, for example—that these forms are acceptable, necessary even. Yet if it is a state of gender equality we are striving for, then enhancing divides between the genders undermines the mission. To command the respect of society, it is helpful to respect that society to begin with...
...woman on a mission to do whatever she could for the graduate students and for Harvard. She did that with gusto,” Gabrielse said...
...long as Jean-Marie Le Pen is alive! He has never seen politics as a job, but rather as a mission. As long as he feels France is going in the wrong direction, and needs new leadership, he'll feel it's his duty...