"It reminds me of a quote from ' The Night Of The Generals' that went something like 'What is admirable on a grand scale is abhorrent on a small scale', " commented another CNN reader known as Davidji, referring to the 1967 movie about a Nazi murder investigation during World War II.
He said domestic abuse was "abhorrent and a stain on Scotland", saying there were over 51, 900 incidents of domestic abuse recorded by police in 2009 - 10.
Initially, moral authorities encouraged this type of donation because they believed it abhorrent that a donor should be paid for the trouble of undergoing surgery to provide a vitally needed body part to another individual.
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Thompson was referring rather to the lack of a front-runner, a situation abhorrent to Republicans' political nature.
Since then the influence in Myanmar of both India and, especially, China has grown, while ASEAN's decision-making and diplomacy have been handicapped by the membership of a government abhorrent to the West.
He accused the Serbs of "abhorrent and criminal action on a maximum scale" and he detailed reports of executions of ethnic Albanian schoolteachers, a negotiator, an editor and hundreds of unarmed civilians.
Dr Liam Fox, Shadow Health Secretary, said the whole idea of a cash transaction is abhorrent.
The Constitution had to change to correct the abhorrent acceptance of slavery and women without a vote !
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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.
She said the allegations were "abhorrent and particularly upsetting as Sara Payne is a dear friend".
The abhorrent nature of chemical weapons has made their limitation a priority for many years.
In the top-down, unitary state they run, they are, in a real sense, responsible for the abhorrent acts committed to enforce their population decrees and laws.
Ch Supt Gavin Robertson, who heads the Tayside Police Crime and Intelligence Division, said: ''We are all determined to shine a light on the malevolent and wholly abhorrent crime of human trafficking.
For a few decades the city survived on an abhorrent trade in Chinese coolies, nearly half of whom were shipped through Macau to places like Cuba and Peru.
It is a terrible tragedy that children were unprotected from such abhorrent crimes.
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"It is unforgivable for anybody who is an elected member, who is a member of Cornwall council to say such an abhorrent thing, " said Mr Paget.
And Muslims the world over poured scorn on Sheikh Muhammad Munjad, a puritanical Palestinian preacher, when he suggested earlier this month, on a Saudi television show, that since mice are abhorrent to God, Mickey Mouse deserved to die.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement that the Fifth Circuit ruling "sets an abhorrent precedent" as many states are set to consider bills or ballot measures that would restrict birth control and abortions.
In the old days, there was the Soviet threat out there a single permanent foe, well-equipped militarily and ideologically abhorrent to the American people on which the public could focus.
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It also puts at risk its reputation with the vast majority of all players and its customer base who would most likely view a slap on the vocal chords as tacit tolerance for an abhorrent principle.
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"I have to say the absolute witch-hunt which is going on at the moment - and the idea a child naked is something to be frowned upon - is absolutely abhorrent, " he added.
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Indeed, if you judge by the available polling data, a Russian government that was truly reflective of the popular will would treat gays in an absolutely dreadful manner, a manner which, to be perfectly clear, I personally consider abhorrent and barbaric.
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"For a British company to be selling a piece of technology that is useless when it's meant to be saving lives is abhorrent, " Lou McGrath, chief executive of the charity, Mines Advisory Group, told Newsnight.
The idea that Joe Sixpack is paying taxes and Phil Driscoll is being given tax breaks for money he uses to pay for vacation homes is both abhorrent and absurd to this retired SBC pastor who continues to receive part of his retirement in the form of a housing allowance.
The Modesto Bee, in an editorial, blasted Condit for his "duplicity" and "abhorrent" behavior, saying it hindered the police investigation into Levy's disappearance, which authorities are treating as a missing person case.
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