Word: warranting
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Although Morse said he did not know if police had been abusive on Saturday, he said that certain circumstances could warrant physical force...
...feeling, the entire list was offensive," she said. "I feel that as far as the club was concerned, that the invitation was offensive enough as to warrant cancellation of the party. We are ashamed that we are even connected with...
Roger Lafontant, former chief of Baby Doc Duvalier's brutal Tonton Macoutes, has added a strange new chapter to Haiti's political scene by running for President in the Dec. 16 elections. He enters the race with an unusual handicap: a warrant for his arrest was issued in July for crimes he allegedly committed with the Macoutes. Haiti's attorney general is reminding citizens that anyone who shelters the strongman is subject to prosecution. With typical swagger, Lafontant opposes the presence of outside observers at the elections, and officials fear his campaign will serve as a beachhead for the return...
Seth Tapper and Michael Cooper's letter to the editor, "Israeli Oppression Enslaves Jews" [October 16], contains a number of disturbing generalizations and conclusions that warrant a response...
...could be pitched as anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...