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The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising efficiency gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.
Ironically, the forces leading this assault on women had little or no power under Saddam Hussein.
This point was driven home by a recent report by the Rand Corporation showing how vulnerable NATO’s Baltic partners – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – would be to a Russian assault.
Similarly, a rich body of data, including many important studies by Alessandra Rellini and Cindy Meston, now links women’s arousal to their autonomic nervous systems (Rellini and Meston have even found that rape can affect women’s baseline ANS years after the assault).
In March, they filed a federal lawsuit against Yale, alleging that its “failure to address incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault has created a ‘hostile environment.’”
First-year women were ranked on their sex appeal, the complaint noted, and, most seriously, Yale failed to respond adequately to reports of sexual assault or attempted assault and stalking.
The students’ complaint coincides with a federal investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which announced that it would review Yale’s policies for dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault.
As I conducted my reporting, I heard woman after woman allege that the same professor or the same fraternity had engaged in multiple instances of assault or harassment.
Yale alumnae are reportedly now contacting these 16 students with their own stories of sexual assault and harassment, spanning two decades.
America, by contrast, has witnessed a massive assault on those rights, including that of habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention before an independent judge.
Moreover, Obama has sought to suppress hundreds of photographs depicting sexual assault in US-run prisons, and has done nothing to roll back the Patriot Act.
The vote was an assault on freedom of religion that flies in the face of Article 53 of the Polish Constitution, which states that “Freedom of conscience and religion shall be ensured to everyone” and specifies that the “performing of rites” is protected.
While seeking to protect its military freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, the US has turned a blind eye to China’s stealthy but aggressive assault on the freedom of the seas, including restricting the rights of other countries in the region.
President Barack Obama has said and repeated what reasonable Americans understand: the stockpile of assault weapons – small in size but massive in their destructiveness – in private hands constitutes an invisible but legal arsenal.
Extreme inequality is, ultimately, an assault on democracy.
Glenn Beck’s assault on Soros – and the unmistakable stench of its atrocious antecedents – suggests what sort of revolution they may have in mind.
Recent research conducted at the University of Oxford found that from China to the United Kingdom, people facing economic hardship – even children – experience a nearly identical assault on their pride and self-esteem.
He did not shy away from stating his views, often reflecting the advice of Keynes: "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking".
Iran’s leaders, who closely follow Israeli political debates, believe that Israel would not launch an assault on their nuclear facilities without America’s full cooperation, because unilateral action would jeopardize Israel’s relations with its most important strategic ally.
Given that an Israeli offensive would need to be coordinated with the US, while an American assault would not require Israeli military support, Iran would consider both to be American attacks.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, have experienced an assault that the UN itself has labeled ethnic cleansing.
Let us put aside the ever-expanding roster of sexual harassment and assault complaints brought against his flagship Fox News Channel.
India’s Central Bank Under AttackITHACA – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has launched an all-out political assault on the Reserve Bank of India, and the barrage of criticism is already taking a toll on the institution.
And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.
His values, ideas, purposes--everything he espouses--constitute an assault on all that liberalism stands for.
Assault on the OASMEXICO CITY – These last few weeks have been unfortunate for Latin America.
Japanese conservatives view their country’s post-war pacifist constitution, written by Americans in 1946, as a humiliating assault on Japanese sovereignty.
The military responded with an all-out assault on Islamist groups in the city, killing an estimated 10,000-20,000 people.
The Psychology of Superstar Sex PredatorsLONDON – The Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal shows no sign of winding down.
How can we recognize the point beyond which expression of the need for collective experience and integrating rituals becomes evil manipulation and an assault on human freedom?
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