Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
UK Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (esper.) Britujo
Soziologie, Sociología, Sociologie, Sociologia, Sociology, (esper.) sociologio

Etiquette (W3)

Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
Emily Post

Far from being a proscriber of minutiae, Post the philosopher offers a way of living: “Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.” Post gives us thousands of tips on correspondence, wedding planning, party giving and conduct in every public or private setting.
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Genocide (W3)

Genocide: What Is It?

In the present Convention, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

—Article II, 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention

Prior to the twentieth century, the concept of "genocide" did not exist. The term was coined by the Polish jurist Raphäel Lemkin, who combined the Greek word "genos" ("race", "tribe") with the Latin root "cide" ("killing of"). Lemkin lobbied incessantly to get "genocide" recognized as a crime, attending numerous meetings and writing hundreds of letters in a variety of languages. His efforts ultimately helped lead the United Nations to pass a preliminary resolution (96-I) in 1946, stating that "genocide" occurs "when racial, religious, political and other groups have been destroyed, entirely or in part." It is crucial to note that this preliminary resolution included the destruction of "political and other groups" in its definition. Much of the subsequent U.N. debate over the legislation on "genocide" revolved around the question of whether political and social groups should be covered by the convention (Kuper 1981).7 A number of countries - particularly the Soviet Union, which, because of the atrocities it perpetrated against the kulaks and other "enemies of the people," feared accusations of "genocide" - argued that political groups should be excluded from the convention since they did not fit the etymology of "genocide", were mutable categories, and lacked the distinguishing characteristics necessary for definition. In the end, the clause on "political and other groups" was dropped from the final version of the 1948 "Genocide Convention" on the Prevention and Punishment of "Genocide", which dealt only with "national, ethnical, racial or religious groups."
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In an attempt to prevent any future occurrence of atrocities like these, the United Nations developed the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." Approved in December 1948 and entered into force in January 1951, the convention defines the term genocide as "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." To most of us, that a group of people could deliberately be singled out and systematically murdered is too gruesome to consider. But it has happened, and it may be happening right now.
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We found 32 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word genocide:
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just deserts
he got his just deserts (W3)

Not Have a Leg to Stand on (W3)

leave without a leg to stand on | leg to stand on | not a leg to stand on

English in a Minute: Not Have a Leg to Stand on
Published 04/11/2015
Have you ever been told your argument "does not have a leg to stand on?" Find out what this idiom means in this week's English in a Minute!
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