Word: react
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...however, had begun to react against the proposal of violent and prolonged military retaliation...
Before communitarianism became a buzzword, Hauerwas addressed community. Before the Americans with Disabilities Act, he wrote perhaps his most engaging work on persons with disabilities and how, as a community, we react to their presence. He anticipated debates about genetic manipulation. Before talk of "the virtues" became widespread, Hauerwas wrote about the need for an account of our habits as members of communities. Do these communities sustain virtues? One virtue Hauerwas extols is faithfulness. He urges people to be faithful Roman Catholics or Orthodox Jews or Evangelicals or Muslims. It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken...
...should react with great restraint. There should be no jumping to conclusions, no scapegoats until U.S. intelligence has proof as to who did this,” Mitten said at the HIS meeting...
...even begin to plumb the mind of a baby? Infants are harder to study than the usual subjects of psychological research--rats and college sophomores. Infants can't talk, they don't like being conditioned, and they react to most experimental procedures by crying or worse...
...Patrick sees it now, he has a choice. "There's no mortal blow here. It's really a question of whether I react or I respond," he told TIME. "One is steeped in self-appraisal and maturity, and one is kind of superficial and temporary. I'm responding; I'm not reacting." He left the campaign committee, shook up his staff and brought back trusted family political advisers. He became a different kind of Congressman--one who acknowledged some frailties that made him seem more human, less like a Kennedy fund-raising machine. Having gone public with the fact that...