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Principle VII states, " Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international law.
Complicityis a composite of complexity and simplicity and Cohen and Stewart use it to express the close and interdependent relationship between knowledge-inside-ones-head and knowledge-outside-ones-head that one can readily access.
Complicity is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks.
Banks has claimed in an interview that Complicity is " bit like The Wasp Factory except without the happy ending and redeeming air of cheerfulness ".

Complicity and .
Complicity in Kirov's assassination was a common charge to which the accused confessed in the show trials of the era.
Ken Nott resembles a happier version of Cameron Colley, the main character in Banks ' earlier novel Complicity.
*" Gorbachev's Holocaust: Soviet Complicity in Ethiopia's Famine ", by Michael Johns, Policy Review, Summer 1988.
Their Fathers ’ Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity.
* Quiet Complicity, Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War, by Victor Levant, Forward by Gwynne Dyer, Between the Lines.
* " Secret Bad Arolsen Holocaust Archive — a trove of Revelations about Holocaust Insurance, Corporate Complicity and IBM involvement.
The building was used in the filming of the Scottish film Complicity.
* 2006: Steven H. Miles, M. D, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
* Anne Farrow ; John Lang ; Jennifer Frank ; " Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.
* William D. Rogers and Kenneth Maxwell, " Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate Over U. S. Complicity, Foreign Affairs, January / February 2004.
• William D. Rogers, " Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate of U. S. Complicity ", International Affairs, Jan .- Feb. 2004.
:# Complicity with conspirators from CENTO and NATO for the oppression of the peoples of Palestine, Vietnam and Iran.
* " U. S. Complicity in Timor " ( The Nation, September 27, 1999 )

is and embarrassing
For the first time in history, the U.S. has produced a society in which less than one-tenth of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce.
Linehan says, " if Ted is in a situation that is slightly embarrassing we get him out of it [...] by having him lying or cheating, basically digging a massive hole for himself ".
However, similar words with a different meaning are also quite common ( e. g., German bekommen means " to receive ", not " to become ", and is thus a false friend, which could lead a German English learner to utter an embarrassing sentence like: " I want to become a beefsteak .").
* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.
Though Smith played 16 years in the league and is now enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he is perhaps best known for his embarrassing blunder on the sport's biggest stage.
It is considered extremely embarrassing for the approval vote to fall below 70 %, which occurred several times in the mid-1990s.
Hill and Nichols believe Murphy was unwilling to take the responsibility for the device's initial failure ( by itself a blip of no large significance ) and is to be doubly damned for not allowing the MX981 team time to validate the sensor's operability and for trying to blame an underling when doing so in the embarrassing aftermath.
The correct way to say " I'm embarrassed " in Spanish is using the phrase tengo vergüenza ( meaning " I have shame ") or the more formal phrases me da vergüenza or estoy avergonzado .< sup > 2 </ sup > Yet, in Spanish, there also exists the adjective embarazoso, meaning the same as " embarrassing " in its denotation of something that causes a sensation of unease, but not of shame .< sup > 3 </ sup > Complicating the issue further, embarazada can sometimes also mean " hampered ", or " hindered ".< sup > 4 </ sup > This more closely mirrors the original meaning of the English word embarrass .< sup > 5 </ sup >
" This argument resembles the criterion of embarrassment, an analytical tool used in assessing the historicity of Biblical accounts of Jesus, which holds that material that would seem to be " embarrassing " to scriptural figures such as Jesus but is nevertheless included in the canon is likely to be true.
Agoraphobia is the specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing or where help may be unavailable.
Agoraphobia ( from Greek ἀγορά, " marketplace "; and φόβος / φοβία ,-phobia ) is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment to be difficult or embarrassing to escape.
Objection to the perceived sexist inequality of the tradition is one major reason ; another is that changing surnames may create an offensive or embarrassing name combination ; others simply prefer their own surname to that of their spouse's family ; and some people dislike undergoing the difficulties and expenses required in a legal name change.
Although this situation is embarrassing from a constitutional point of view, authorities and courts are hesitant to act against it, for reasons of practicality.
While the ancient Greek gynecologist Soranos had disapproved of giving birth on one's knees as " painful and embarrassing ," he recommends it for the obese and for lordotic women, that is, those with a concave curvature of the lower back that would tilt the uterus out of alignment with the birth canal.
Throughout Yes Minister Hacker is regularly portrayed as a publicity-mad bungler who is incapable of making a firm decision, prone to make potentially embarrassing blunders, and a frequent target of criticism from the press and stern lectures from the Chief Whip.
The Council has offered pretextual reasons for lowering his salary, but many residents believe this move is yet another sucker-punch in this embarrassing battle of egos.
Despite the embarrassing misconceptions, Oscar forms a close bond with Amy as they continue to spend time together-to the extent that Amy moves in with him after she is kicked out of her apartment-Amy sharing various personal stories with Oscar.
Sharon is also known to be a clumsy girl and, would usually end up embarrassing herself somehow.

is and word
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??
The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.
Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.
For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.
If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

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