They helped in South Africa, but only as part of a multi-front assault on apartheid as a regime and as an abhorrent political concept.
As abhorrent as the concept of censorship is to many people who embrace the ideals of anonymity, including me, we need censorship to keep the dimly lit corners of cyberspace safe.
Barack Obama, despite garnering big applause at this summer's National Education Association convention, largely submarined his chances of winning the teachers' support by endorsing merit pay tied to students' standardized test scores--a concept abhorrent to many teachers.
While we, in our mental models, find the concept to be abhorrent, I would say that the future will bring an Xbox without a disk slot at all, thereby rendering the thought of used game sales moot.
Kristy Dyroff of the National Organization for Victim Assistance finds the whole concept of the show "abhorrent".
While I find most reality TV abhorrent, last week's Shark Tank brought a very interesting concept to the usual babble that is the modern "boss" show.
Rather than suffer such indignities in silence, the writers banded together to form a kind of slam-poetry series, where the most imaginative and eloquently abhorrent diatribes are read out as mesmerising, high-concept theatre.
Jews were abhorrent because they had introduced into world history the "weak" concepts of legality and conscience.
"So the concept of doing serial CT testing on asymptomatic patients, I think, is abhorrent.
While most people agree that getting rid of female foetuses is abhorrent, some argue that it is a price worth paying to preserve the purity of the concept of choice.
The measure of one's support for the concept of free speech is found more often with that which one finds philosophically abhorrent.
