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was raised not as an ad hominem assessment of the Amnesty International report, but in response to the Amnesty honcho from Senegal's comment that the U.S. criminal justice system lagged in fairness behind (someplace he called) the world community.
Some might argue that because the United States lagged in recognizing equal legal rights for women, the mood of 1863 would have been hostile to recognizing that women as well as men were equal in the sight of God.
"Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).
Mainline Protestants and Catholics lagged five points behind.
Despite the existence of substantial diversity among cultivated peanut genotypes for various morphological, physiological and agronomic traits, very little DNA variations had been detected by using protein- or DNA-based markers [ 15 16 17 18 19 ] . Because of the lack of polymorphism at DNA level, this crop has lagged behind in genetic mapping, marker-assisted selection, resistance gene cloning, and crop evolutionary study compared with other crops.