"We wanted to put human faces on some iniquities in the US and abroad, so that people might feel a little more empathy and inclination to help," said Kristof.
In the 1990s a peaceful movement protesting against the iniquities of government in the Niger delta decayed into a violent and criminal insurgency.
His shadow cabinet allies can talk for hours about the iniquities of Anglo-Saxon globalised capitalism and the stagnation of rewards for the "squeezed middle" of workers.
To the contrary: his recent fulminations about Islamic sharia law sweeping America and the iniquities of Barack Obama's "secular socialist machine" suggest that he sees the ultra-right of the party as his key to the nomination.
Still smarting from what they regarded as unfair treatment in the earlier Uruguay round of trade talks which were concluded in 1994, they moaned about the iniquities of past trade deals and focused on minimising their responsibilities in the Doha round.
The lower ranks have been catching the blame for the iniquities of Alawite rule, but none of the benefits.
But the Hungarian crowds were not focused on the iniquities of global capitalism.
He admits enough of its iniquities to inspire confidence in his readers and omits enough to spare their sensibilities, while asserting, at the same time, the virtues which acquit the British of really criminal imperialism.
But by filtering 20th-century China through the life of a single despot without due attention being paid to the iniquities of his opponents, the book feels too much like the story of a lone ogre, and not enough like a complex and dispassionate history.
She was ready to brief every visiting reporter and dignitary about the iniquities of Milosevic and his cronies.
To engage a taxi-driver in conversation in the capital, Tehran, is to invite a tearful jeremiad against life's iniquities.
