On election day, to pre-empt a rigged vote count, Mr Malloch Brown took a crude exit poll and had Mrs Aquino declare victory straight away".Alpha Dogs" holds the reader's attention like the most deliciously odious political attack ad.
The French president, François Hollande, who held crisis talks at the Elysée, said the double murder – which he had called "odious" – was "undeniably a terrorist attack".
It was very painful to be attacked, in the most odious terms, by people who in many cases I knew had not read the book".
Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as "particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings," these offenses are more than just isolated or sporadic events.
A joint declaration from the Europa partnership of newspapers: The attack on Charlie Hebdo on 7 January in Paris and the odious assassination of our colleagues, fierce defenders of freedom of expression, is not only an attack on the liberty of the press and liberty of opinion.
In the South, her indictment of slavery through the odious figure of Legree was likened to a "malignant" attack on the institution of marriage, as if she had chosen a wife-beater to represent "the normal condition of the relation" between loving spouses.
Public attitudes have been coloured successively by petro-powered sheikhs, Palestinian terrorists, Iranian ayatollahs, mass immigration and then the attacks of September 11th, executed if not planned by western-based Muslims and succoured by an odious regime in Afghanistan.
Muslim groups in the country, which were often criticized during the cartoon furor for not speaking out against violence and even deliberately fanning the flames, raised their voices to condemn the attack on Mr. Hedegaard and support his right to express his views, no matter how odious.
