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When Dirty Harry's longtime partner is killed by the PRSF during a major weapons theft, Dirty Harry vows revenge and, surprisingly, is given some support by his superiors.
they are put on the case as punishment or to keep them from trouble,as they are an embarrassment to their superiors.as
One observed that Bank of England staff members tended to “filter” their advice to make it more palatable to their superiors.
Americans had little reason to notice Xi back then, but his superiors clearly saw his potential.
If I had suggested to my superiors at that time that the UN would one day observe and even run elections in sovereign states, conduct intrusive inspections for weapons of mass destruction, impose comprehensive sanctions on the entire import-export trade of a member state, or set up international criminal tribunals and coerce governments into handing over their citizens to be tried by foreigners under international law, they would have told me that I did not understand what the UN was all about.
One of his superiors at the nearby prefectural headquarters in Chamdo is suspected of having decided to punish them, as well as two of their cousins, Sonam Choephel and Rinchen Dorje, who are also in custody in Tibet for vague or unspecified offenses.
There is no evidence that torturers are better at lie detection than anyone else; on the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that torturers or their superiors routinely disbelieve their subjects’ testimony.
The Swedish government responded with indifference, and worse: when the country’s ambassador to Israel put up a note on the embassy’s Web site distancing Sweden from such appalling calumnies, her enraged superiors in Stockholm ordered her to take it down.
In particular, the fifth season, which aired in France in late 2014, offered a clinical description of how young people in the Paris suburbs went astray, while portraying the relationship between the police and their political superiors as cynical and even combative.
The drugs we have can help patients who, in order to avoid situations that inspire fear or anxiety, such as crowded subways or being judged by their peers or superiors, have stopped going to work.
A recent Boston Consulting Group study found that young male employees are often more open-minded than their superiors on issues like family leave and diversity, suggesting that true leadership on gender equality may actually come from a company’s youngest staff members.
In a non-democracy, officials are held accountable to their superiors, not to voters.
And for one’s superiors, tangible projects are the easiest to recognize.
Only when Rodman’s superiors cancel his experiments and he takes home Caesar, an infant chimpanzee, does the scientist begin to care about others.
The Hindu newspaper recently reported on the case of a 24-year-old lawyer, Anima Muyarath, who was suspended from the Calicut Bar Association after posting a remark on her Facebook page about sexist behavior in the workplace by her male superiors.
Mr. Tung, whose moral precepts are informed by a doctrinaire interpretation of Confucian classics emphasizing obedience to one's superiors, seems oblivious to what China views as the fundamental challenge that it now faces.
Instead, his behavior is reminiscent of a feudal district official whose main priority is to ensure that his superiors are treated with due reverence.
None of this will come as a surprise to officials in Kyiv, who have long claimed that the separatist authorities with whom they are expected to reach an agreement are getting their marching orders from Russian superiors.
I would hope that WikiLeaks would not publish a cable in which diplomats informed their superiors of the plot.
Or did the pattern of abuse amount to so many orders from superiors to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation?
The tales of colleagues, and even superiors, assaulting soldiers whose lives they are supposed to protect – stories that reveal the license that the attackers must have felt they had – are harrowing enough.
One obvious cause of this is that, in the US military, soldiers report sexual assault to their superiors in the chain of command, rather than to a separate, independent investigative body.
We are no longer told what to do or think by priests or our social superiors.
Suffice it to say that tsarist officials could not be sued without the permission of their superiors.
This pattern results from institutional impediments to achieving a viable work-family balance – impediments that embody the harsh view of male superiors and colleagues toward working mothers.
Tellingly, the police chief went to his governmental superiors prior to the book’s publication, appealing personally to a minister.
That is the culture of the UN: believe the best of barbarians, do nothing to provoke controversy among superiors, and let others be the butt of criticism afterwards.
Interventions should therefore target groups, not entire battlefields, and they should target perpetrators’ superiors.
What the committee described as an “executive summary” detailed horrific behavior by government officials acting on instructions from their superiors.
Historically, it has deployed only 70-80% of the 22,000 soldiers that the treaty allows in Zone A. And the military has never established a regional command in Sinai, preferring to allow units temporarily stationed there to report to their superiors scattered around Cairo and its environs.
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