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Tag Name "Shrift" (7)

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It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined European values, but we have been much too weak in defining mutual interests. To preempt any possible misunderstandings: We cannot give short shrift to our values of freedom, democracy and human rights.
Sigmar Gabriel
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
Colum McCann
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There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.
Jill Stein
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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
Norton Juster
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And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
Geraldine Brooks
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Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
Joseph Goebbels
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca the Younger