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The Council’s excuse is a smokescreen, and simultaneously kowtows to Chinese totalitarianism and insults those Chinese writers who have been imprisoned, banned, or forced into exile merely for writing what their conscience demands.
I will not attempt to correct – at least not right now – the mind-boggling falsehoods, nonsense, and petty insults that make up this grotesque and pitiful affair, which has caused a minor uproar in France.
At the same time, the number of attacks – from insults to property damage to bodily harm – against elected officials tripled in 2016.
In fact, it has responded to Modi’s efforts at outreach with a series of insults.
His political insults are legendary.
Western public opinion abhors the constant insults directed at Israel, Jews, and the West in general.
Accordingly, advocates of this worldview regard fences and walls as insults to humanity, proof that those who build and maintain them have no trust in their countries’ vibrancy and strength.
It insults the intelligence of the Hungarian people to suggest otherwise.
But many others, confronted with his steady stream of insults directed at Latinos, Muslims, and women, seem to have walled off their consciences.
Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with imprisonment.
A vigorous new commitment to protecting the rights and freedoms of all citizens and residents and a zero-tolerance policy toward any state collusion with or tolerance of ethnic cleansing, torture, summary detention, citizen surveillance or other insults to democracy, is also necessary.
But while Trump must figure out how to climb down from his fanciful wall, so far he has ratcheted up his pettiness, removing Mattis two months ahead of schedule and tweeting insults to politicians who have criticized his recent blunders.
While the president spent his first year in office trading insults with the dictator of North Korea, that country has moved steadily forward with its nuclear program, and the United States has moved steadily closer to a war that no one wants.
Critics who want a more activist, growth-oriented monetary policy have tried--albeit unsuccessfully--to soften up the 68-year-old Dutchman with personal attacks and degrading insults.
But the ECB head and the Governing Council refused to yield either to insults or to heavy-handed political pressure to cut interest rates, cut them again, and then cut them some more.
Israeli elections are in some ways a tribal affair; people vote on the basis of memories, insults, religious sensibilities, and group grievances.
First, whereas most environmental insults – for example, water pollution, acid rain, or sulfur dioxide emissions – are mitigated promptly or in fairly short order when the source is cleaned up, emissions of CO2 and other trace gases remain in the atmosphere for centuries.
Today, Bolivia is being led by its government toward antagonism between Indians and non-Indians, the eastern and western regions, and city and country, exacerbated by insults and actions that are acquiring an increasingly racist and ethnocentric edge.
He behaved with great class and easily dismissed all the insults I had heaped on him only a short time before.
Some nations do not feel threatened by imaginary insults to national dignity – for various historical reasons, they believe themselves to be superior to others.
For the time being, the Chinese may be too preoccupied with their own backyard to pay attention to such insults, but it is foolish to offend them deliberately.
Correa has used a long list of colorful insults to characterize the press and journalists.
The same cannot be said of Trump, who surely has been warned of the dangers of hurling insults like “Rocket Man” at the brutal and inexperienced Kim.
His below-the-belt insults, racist dog whistles, and unfounded attacks on the media and other democratic institutions are deepening political and social divisions, while diminishing respect for the presidency and the US more generally.
Insults and squabbles fill our political stage and ruin the citizens’ trust in the government.
Most European governments already take a stricter view of public insults than the US Constitution does.
Canadians punish racial insults, but Americans do not, at least if the issue is simply one of protecting the dignity of racial minorities.
There are economic and geopolitical rivalries between China and Japan that dwarf in importance the high-profile insults to national pride that make headlines.
The Anti-Democratic Heart of PopulismSANTIAGO – Many of the men and women who turned out for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in early October were saying something like this: “Imagine if the Republicans had nominated someone with the same anti-trade views as Trump, minus the insults and the sexual harassment.
But a plot twist has complicated his shoo-in campaign, with both Tang and Leung now improvising their lines – peppered with frequent insults – and each consulting the director (China) at every turn.
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