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28 Nov 2017, 4:00 am by Clare Duncan
Yemen is, in many ways, a perfect storm of several issues seen across the Middle East: a failed Arab Spring revolution, a proxy war with some sectarian overtones, U.S. support for a Saudi bombing campaign, al-Qaida and Islamic State group attacks, and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
The Judge explained that, in its context, he was ‘inclined’ to accept it had ‘defamatory overtones’. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 3:58 am by SHG
” For example, “If the incident has racial overtones, make the message that the debate is about criminals, not race. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 1:42 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" For example, "If the incident has racial overtones, make the message that the debate is about criminals, not race. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 11:28 pm by Bill Otis
 Never again means never again.The bloody tide of recent history; a SCOTUS majority that understands the problem (and is likely to get better with new members appointed by President Trump); and now an acceleration of grisly murders with terrorist and/or Nazi overtones  --  all this, in my view, will make a difference in the public's appreciation of the symbolic value of capital punishment.All in all, the outcropping from the California Supreme Court's ruling, and… [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 1:09 pm by Bill Amadeo
There was a time when the drunk driving laws in the state of Michigan had a friendly overtone to them but as most things in our state, things are constantly changing. [read post]
19 Aug 2017, 3:20 am by familoo
He tells a great Monthy Python-esque story with overtones of “paper bag int’d middle o’ road” about his childhood, about playing in bomb sits, about the only tv in the street, about his grocery delivery round on a bike so big he could only dismount by finding a tree and doing a controlled sideways fall into it, and about getting a job as a minion at the Weston Super Mare branch of Lloyds bank. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 5:38 am by Mitra Sharafi
It's billed as a comedy, but it has lots of overtones of social justice (it is not an accident that it was made by George Stevens during the war). [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 6:23 am
”“The alt-light is the alt-right without the racist overtones, but it is hard to differentiate it sometimes because you’re looking at people who sometimes dance between both camps,” he said.I see that there's a Wikipedia entry for "Alt-lite" ("also known as the 'alt-light'"). [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 7:02 am
Koval said he received calls Thursday from some people who told him his plan has racist overtones, particularly since less than 8 percent of the Madison population is African-American....ADDED: Notice the statement from the mayor (at the end of the article), calling criminals "terrorists":“Despite all these efforts, we have young black men disproportionately killing other young black men and it has to stop,” Soglin said. [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 5:00 am by SHG
While the example of Justine Damond, with the addition of her slapping the cruiser (which brings no substantive basis to a reasonable belief that she posed a threat of harm) is fraught with political overtones due to her race, the case of Ismael Lopez sharpens the point: One officer fired shots at the pit bull that hurtled out of the mobile home in Southaven, Miss., police said. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 6:38 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
And although this harassment can take many forms, some minority groups more frequently encounter harassment that carries racial overtones. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 1:54 pm
It makes perfect sense, then, that just as the current efforts toward a comprehensive treaty on business and human rights would view societal governance with suspicion as unaccountable and illegitimate, so might one view the legitimacy of a HRDD system (and its normative overtones) as grounded in law. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 9:20 am by NCC Staff
The Supreme Court is heading toward the home stretch of an eventful and unusual term. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 5:12 am by Amy Howe
The justices are expected to take the bench today at 10 a.m. to issue opinions in argued cases. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 10:00 pm
  Hasbro describes the scent as "A unique scent formed through the combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough" and states the scent has been in use since at least as early as Sept. 12, 1955. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 10:14 am by Jeff Rasansky
These cities include: Alamo, Alice, Amarillo, Angleton, Anthony, Aransas Pass, Argyle, Arlington, Austin, Balcones Heights, Bedford, Bee Cave, Bellaire, Big Lake, Boerne, Brazoria, Brownsville, Buda, Canyon, Castle Hills, College Station, Conroe, Converse, Corpus Christi, Deer Park, Denton, Edinburg, El Paso, Farmers Branch, Floresville, Fredericksburg, Galveston, Garden Ridge, Grand Prairie, Groesbeck, Harlingen, Helotes, Hereford, Hill Country Village, Hurst, Jacksonville, Kingsville, Kyle,… [read post]
30 May 2017, 1:00 pm
Dress codes are frequently unevenly enforced against girls for wearing clothing that is considered a “distraction” to boys in the classroom — reinforcing stereotypes about how “good girls” dress and privileging boys’ ability to concentrate over girls’ comfort and ability to learn.Though today’s dress codes are unlikely to be explicitly race-based, there can also be stark racial overtones. [read post]