Word: resorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home. These young people generally do not show any obvious sign of the mental disorders and self-destructive tendencies shared by children who strike out at strangers on the street or at nonabusive parents. In fact, dispatching their tormentor can be seen as an act of sanity, a last-resort effort at self-preservation. "They know what they're doing is wrong," says Dewey Cornell, a forensic psychologist at the University of Virginia. "But they are desperate and helpless, and they don't see alternatives...
...panel of admissions officers reiterated in a discussion with undergraduates yesterday their belief that Harvard should not resort to race-based scholarships after the low yield of Black students in the Class...
...should not play into Operation Rescue's hands by turning their protests into media events that publicize exactly the choice we want to keep private. The less attention we pay to them, the smaller their forum will be--and the more they will have to resort to illegal means that will land them in jail and will also paint them as the extremist group that they are. They will have trouble persuading people to their viewpoint, and they will matter little in the future legislation of abortion...
...strategies parents resort to are dictated by the Federal Methodology, used to determine what a family is able to afford and how much federal assistance it can receive. Some calculations will remain the same, including those for two important figures...
Those views exist out there. They'redespicable, but we should have confidence in ourability to defeat them in the marketplace of ideasand not resort to censorship. What appalls me inmature students who demand that they be treatedindependently when it comes to their sexuality,when it comes to their drinking or any aspect oftheir personal lives, run to mommy and daddy deanor president and demand to be protected fromoffensive speech...