Word: rigidities
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...national elections that reminded citizens of their constitutional right to cross out names on the one-party list of candidates. Yet the real aim of the trial was obviously to intimidate Dubček's followers so that they would not seek any liberalization of the rigid authoritarian rule that the Russians have forced Husák to reimpose on the country. After several days of court sessions, from which foreign press and public were barred, the judges imposed sentences of up to six years on former Party Theoretician Jaromir Litera, Sociologist Rudolf Battek, Historian Jan Tesa...
Presumably because police officers represent authority and often have to exercise it, there has been a tradition in some quarters that they should be trained by rigid, authoritarian methods. Such was the notion in the academy for rookie policemen in the Los Angeles county sheriff's department. "We had been committed to a high-stress program," says Assistant Sheriff Howard H. Earle, "a Pavlov's-dog style of conditioning the trainee by stress so that he would not panic when he got into a stressful situation on the job." But as social attitudes changed during...
...pleasure of seeing him thrown off the floor; he never came to Miami. The unseating of Daley raised again a fundamental question about the democracy of the party's new guidelines. At what point does the laudable idea of opening the party to women and minorities turn into a rigid and potentially tyrannical quota system? If a delegate slate, even one contrived by an old-line party boss, wins a majority...
Taylor's version may disturb some ears, but its thought-for-thought rendition is not very likely to distress believers with any newfangled doctrinal notions. "The theological lodestar in this book," says Taylor in an anonymous preface to The Living Bible, "has been a rigid evangelical position." Mysteriously, halfway through the paraphrase, Taylor lost his voice, and still speaks only in a hoarse whisper. A psychiatrist who examined him suggested that the voice failure was Taylor's psychological self-punishment for tampering with what he believed to be the word...
...deputy bishop and two vicar generals. He issued a ukase telling his pastoral council that it would have to follow whatever policy he laid down. That policy included a strict stand against birth control, opposition to any democratic procedures in the church, and a stand on abortion more rigid than that adopted by his fellow bishops. "If a 13-year-old girl gets raped by a psychopath and gets pregnant," he pronounced, "abortion is certainly not allowed. She would have to say: Til have to carry the cross of the Lord...