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What it does view as a fundamental violation of Christian charity is detractio : disclosing another human being's private failings and weaknesses in order to ruin his good name or otherwise bring him into discredit.
The late 1990s were a period of disillusionment with the long-lived Suharto regime’s many failings and widespread corruption.
To condemn Jefferson for his failings, you must also condemn Lincoln, but to condemn both is to throw out the progressive historic tradition by which the present civil rights movement gains its legitimacy.
Pennington's authoritative and blow-by-blow account shows failings not only in the butcher (who was, incidentally, Scottish Master Butcher of the Year in 1996), but also in the inspectors who had visited his shop eight times in the previous two years.
He has embraced the Arab Human Development Report, which was highly critical of the Arab world's political, economic, and social failings and called for greater economic and political reform.