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The United States also helped Suharto to seize power back in 1965-66, sanctioned his occupation of East Timor in 1975, and basically looked the other way at three decades of one-man rule and serious human rights violations.
As they seek to undo the masculine/feminine, self/other, writer/ reader splits, according to Claiborne, feminist scholars... work at an elevated political level of grave potential outcomes, for feminist involvement focuses on the foundation of cultural paradigms constructed by socially sanctioned ways of thinking.
Last week, the presiding judge in the case sanctioned Stephanopoulos for not looking hard enough for documents covered by a Judicial Watch subpoena.
The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Or is gossip only sanctioned when the topic is of a private, personal nature?