For the situation of minorities to improve in Pakistan, it would require more from the state than the isolated efforts such as restoration of Hindu temples, or the visit to one as a display of
sanctimony.
Holt wrote: "I'm sorry, but I really don't get the outpouring of outrage and
sanctimony that has greeted their apparently imminent signing of Alexis Sanchez.
After 9/11, the 'long war' an open-ended global war on terror became the justification to enforce this objective, not only in Afghanistan and Iraq but wherever considered necessary, because the US claimed 'the prerogative of waging war when and where it sees fit.' But by 2009, as Bacevich points out, the 'global war on terror produced one undeniable conclusion estimates of US military capabilities have turned out to be wildly over-stated.' Accordingly, Bacevich concluded that 'American power has limits and is inadequate to the ambitions to which hubris and
sanctimony have given rise.' But his warnings have fallen on deaf ears.
Landis, with the visage of an Old Testament Jeremiah, took every chance to spew his
sanctimony regarding the Black Sox, banning the players from baseball for life despite their earlier acquittal by a sympathetic jury in Chicago.
There was none of the pomp and
sanctimony that would have set the tone at a state funeral in Westminster Abbey.
He reiterated his political party's firm belief in the
sanctimony of the people's will and right for change.
With gentle
sanctimony, my editor informed me that the editorial position of the paper was in keeping with the corporate position which was "pro-choice." I knew that day I would not retire from the corporate media world.
But if this accusation is correct then the word used to describe it is too mild, for Cameron's public condemnations of tax avoidance go beyond hypocrisy to
sanctimony; a word which once referred to those who claimed moral superiority and did not deserve it.
It was four years ago Carr was 'named and shamed' by David Cameron over his tax avoidance in a fit of what we now know was nauseating
sanctimony.
If the left can drop the
sanctimony, and the right can drop the obstructionism, if instead of wrestling with each other we can grapple with the evidence, we can save thousands of lives a year.
At the same time, there are a few leaders who will move heaven and earth in their 'mission' to avoid a stint behind bars, the
sanctimony of the 'Holy precincts' notwithstanding!
We should provide assistance - legal, medical, psychological - but abandon the self-serving
sanctimony.
Is Tesco more worthy than Greenpeace?" She added: "I can't speak with too much
sanctimony.
With
sanctimony commensurate with their hypocrisy, school choice opponents borrow language from the era of Brown v.
