Denial
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But just as China has unilaterally and aggressively asserted its territorial and maritime claims in Asia, it is using the reengineering of cross-border riparian flows and
denial
of hydrological data to deepen its regional power.
For years, Ellwanger published anti-Semitic books, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as books of Holocaust denial, such as his own Jewish or German Holocaust: Behind the Lie of the Century.
Who can forget their repeated
denial
that they knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden before he was killed by US naval commandos in a 2011 raid on his safe house in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad?
The “white lady” is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of
denial
will only worsen the consequences.
While addicts may be in denial, thinking that they can control their “recreational use,” cocaine, to quote the famous song by J.J. Cale, “she don’t lie.”
But, with a revanchist Russia to their east and chaos to the south, Europeans can no longer afford to live in
denial.
A suicidal
denial
of reality seems to unite the candidates and their supporters, best formulated as follows: “Don’t address serious issues, such as the national debt, during the election campaign, and we will not expect you to confront them seriously when you are in power.”
Unfortunately, a group of countries that are united above all by a common
denial
of their global responsibilities is unlikely to reach such a conclusion.
Perhaps the campaign against Dominicans of Haitian descent will stop when the Dominican judiciary acknowledges that the retroactive
denial
of citizenship violates fundamental human rights law.
Further constraints on freedom of speech – such as anti-blasphemy laws or, indeed, those laws that make Holocaust
denial
punishable – go too far.
An initial phase of
denial
was followed by commitments that could not be met (indeed, that some argued should not be met, owing to faulty program design).
Economic growth without social justice merely prolongs the
denial
of decent living conditions to the majority of Africa’s people for the benefit of a tiny rich minority.
The US record is marred by
denial
and absence of leadership, except when American strategic interests (Kosovo) or a president's domestic political concerns (eventually, Bosnia) become imperiled.
Many Germans, in particular, are in
denial
that the cyclical upturn may be coming to an end.
A new report that emerged this year from the Commission’s work, Protecting Children in Armed Conflict, edited by Shaheed Fatima QC, also calls for radical changes – for schools in conflict zones to enjoy the same effective protection as hospitals; for states to take active measures to prevent sexual violence against children and to prevent child abductions and trafficking, and for a clear declaration that
denial
of humanitarian access is always unlawful where civilians are at risk of starvation.
Academics remain largely in
denial
about the impact of knowledge management.
Working around existing treaties just looks like more of the same old recipe – a
denial
of a massive problem that everyone sees.
In France, the historical occurrence of the Armenian genocide is enshrined in law, and
denial
of its occurrence is regarded in the same way as Holocaust
denial.
The future will begin only when Turkey – like Germany in the past and Serbia and Croatia now – repudiates its policy of
denial
and faces up to its terrible crimes of 1915.
But, while The Economist recently described France as being “in denial,” the same could be said of the United Kingdom.
America’s fixation on the renminbi is a classic case of political
denial.
A blatant example of this is the law against Holocaust
denial.
Some East European countries specifically prohibit the
denial
of communist “genocides.”
So I have no sympathy for David Irving’s absurd
denial
of the Holocaust – which he now claims was a mistake.
But how is the cause of truth served by prohibiting Holocaust
denial?
To be consistent with that clear statement – and without the vague qualifications of Article 11, which threaten to render it meaningless – Austria should repeal its law against Holocaust
denial.
“Simple: we go into denial.”
Nothing but the thinnest membrane of
denial
separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non-scientific dream of escaping one’s own inevitable death.
The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the
denial
of death.
The current president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, uses genocide
denial
to sustain his power and stoke hate-filled separatism.
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