This just in: Bernie will name 5 members of the 15-person Democratic Platform Committee, Hillary Clinton will name 6 members, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz will name 4. The platform will be presented at the party convention in July.
Since DNC rules allow the chair to pick the entire slate of 15, this is something of a concession to Bernie -- which may help overcome some of the divisiveness. But as a practical matter, since Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton represent essentially the same interests, Bernie gets a third of the platform writing committee -- not enough to make the platform bigger or more ambitious than Clinton wants.
Which raises a larger point that I'll be discussing at greater length in coming weeks. If Hillary is the nominee, she needs to think far bigger than she's now thinking. Her policy proposals are far too small and incremental, given the large and growing economic problems facing the middle class and the poor. Robert Reich
Abortion is a highly divisive issue in the United States, so how did Donald Trump manage to provoke both sides of the argument?
An astonishing procession of bosses are disappearing from France's big firms. The once-familiar lineup of CAC-40 bosses is getting less so, as one after another is moved, fired or defenestrates himself. On October 29th, it was the turn of Christopher Viehbacher, the German-Canadian chief executive of the French drugs-giant Sanofi, to be sacked http://econ.st/1u8lzQK
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Her hostility to Eurocrats undermined her campaign to stop the drift of power to Brussels. Her stridency, from her early days as "Thatcher the milk snatcher" to her defenestration by her own party, was divisive.
strident
adjective
- Phoneticsanother term for sibilant.
- 音節
- di • vi • sive
- 発音
- diváisiv
[形]
1 区分をなす, 区分のある；区分する.
2 不和［あつれき］を生じる.jehu (JEE-hyoo, -hoo)
noun:
1. A fast driver.
2. A driver of a cab.
Etymology
After King Jehu in the Old Testament, known for driving his chariot furiously. He had Jezebel killed. Earliest documented use: 1682.
Usage
"The jehu cabby was charged with street betting." — Robert Hale; Undercover Cop Nabs Gamblers; Malvern Gazette (UK); May 8, 2008.
cabby
[名]((略式))＝cabdriver.
Jezebel (JEZ-uh-bel)
noun: A shameless, wicked, or immoral woman.
Etymology
After Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament, who was defenestrated and killed for not worshiping the right god. Earliest documented use: 1558.
Usage
"Olive's not just clever but, in her unshowy way, more saintly than the people who call her a Jezebel." — Sukhdev Sandhu; Top of the Class; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Oct 22, 2010.
defenestration[de・fen・es・tra・tion]
- 発音記号[diːfènəstréiʃən]
耶洗別的生平記載在《列王紀上》16－21章，以及《列王紀下》九章。她是西頓國的公主，在熱心事奉巴力的氣氛中長大，當她做了以色列王亞哈的妻子後繼續信奉巴力，並且藉著軟弱的丈夫強迫以色列人隨從她的宗教。亞哈為了討好她，特別在首都撒瑪利亞為巴力築了一座壇。 耶洗別並開始迫害耶和華的信徒，要殺光耶和華的先知，並奉養四百五十名拜巴力的先知。存留下來的一位耶和華的先知以利亞，是聖經中一位重要的人物。他把以色列人招來迦密山上，挑戰巴力的祭司，在神的面前仰望、禱告，神就從天上降火，來燒掉以利亞的祭物。以色列人看到這個神蹟，知道耶和華是神，殺了所有拜巴力的祭司。耶洗別立刻就派人去殺以利亞，迫使他逃離以色列。 有一次，亞哈王想徵用一處民間葡萄園，但遭到了園主的回絕。耶洗別用心狠手辣的辦法，唆使當地的地痞殺害園主，強佔了葡萄園。因此，神授意以利亞去向亞哈及耶洗別預告神對他們的刑罰，說耶洗別：「狗在耶斯列的外郭必吃耶洗別的肉。」 耶洗別的下場很可悲。多年以後，耶洗別成為太后。在一場由將軍耶戶領導的政變中，叛軍攻到王宮。耶洗別知道知死期已至，還慢慢裝扮梳頭，並諷刺窗外的耶戶。耶戶命她身邊的太監將她從高閣的窗戶扔下，結果耶洗別的屍體被野狗吃盡，應驗了神的話。
…寫信給推雅推喇教會的使者……你容讓那自稱是先知的婦人耶洗別教導我的僕人、引誘他們行姦淫、吃祭偶像之物……（《啟示錄 2:18-20》）
思高聖經
- 你給提雅提辣教會的天使寫：「那位眼睛有如火燄，雙腳有如光銅的天主子這樣說：
- 我知道你的作為、你的愛德、信德、服務和堅忍，也知道你末後的作為比先前的更多。
- 可是我有反對你的一條，就是你曾容許那自稱為先知的婦人依則貝耳教訓我的僕人，並引誘他們行邪淫，吃祭肉。
- 我原給了她悔改的時間，可是她不肯悔改自己的淫行。
- 看，我要把她投在病床上，並且把那些與她行邪淫的人，若他們對她的惡行不予以悔改，也投到重大的困苦中，
- 並將她的子女置於死地；這樣各教會都知道我是洞察人心和肺腑的主，並且我要按照你們的行為，報應你們每一個人。
defenestrate
Line breaks: de|fen¦es|trate
Pronunciation: /diːˈfɛnɪstreɪt
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VERB
1rare Throw (someone) out of a window:she had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had beensuicide
Origin
early 17th century (as defenestrated): seedefenestration.
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