Word: oughtness
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...contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point - that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as possible in their final days. But a controversial procedure is now calling into question even that accord...
...crusade he has embarked upon requires that he balance two competing messages: the U.S. must resolutely rearm to counter the Soviet threat, but it must project its peaceful intent along with its military might. Congress must be convinced that his $274 billion defense budget for fiscal 1984 ought not to be gutted. The nuclear freeze movement at home and abroad has to be countered so that the U.S. can upgrade its strategic forces and proceed with deployment of NATO missiles. And the Soviet Union needs to be persuaded that the West will not shrink from nuclear competition if its proposals...
This country certainly is facing an obesity epidemic, across all ages, but the notion that the solution is the defilement of a popular character’s sole characteristic is pointless and ineffective. Following this same line of thinking, Oscar the Grouch ought to go through a happy streak, one that would hopefully overcome childhood depression, (for that matter Oscar needs to stop living in a trash can; the number of kids following his example there is on the rise...
...Republican representatives, Tian Feng ’11 and Prateek Kumar ’11, called for continued military intervention. The first point of disagreement arose as the students debated on the effectiveness of President Bush’s troop surge last year. “The simplest answer ought to be that is just hasn’t worked,” Krahel said. “No matter how many facts show that the surge is successful on a basic statistical sense, Iraqis are still fine with the killing of American troops, and if this is true...
...Without a context, it tells exactly the opposite story of what it should be telling. The Arab war against Israel is now in its 60th year,” she said. “Soldiers who want to break the silence ought to remind us of why they have to be fighting in the first place, and that context is entirely missing from the exhibit...