coddles

• “They have railed against a philosophy of rehabilitation that "coddles" inmates with too many amenities.”

  A Model Prison

• “Daniel Okonkwo takes the paper to task for perpetuating three long-standing myths: 1) juvenile violent crime in the District has increased; 2) rehabilitating court-involved youth in the community is a fool's errand; and 3) DYRS 'coddles' youth in its care.”

  The Washington Post: DeMorning DeBonis: Dec. 14, 2010

• “If you need a conservative witness – the ALbot has expressed his horror of anybody who coddles radical islamicist human rights abusers in the Middle East, ie Saudi Arabia.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Lawyers Slam Cheney/Kristol Attack on DOJ Lawyers

• “It seems Tessa and Seena have swapped skins: Tessa coddles Yllis while Seena feels like throttling her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Amaryllis in Blueberry

• “They've voted against every extension because, they say, it coddles the unemployed and keeps them from taking available jobs.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Reich: Republican Economics as Social Darwinism

• “Elizabeth Edwards shows she is reasonable and everyone coddles her.”

  Elizabeth Edwards: I expect a paternity test on Hunter's child

• “Form my vantage every one of you who coddles the murderer and gives him comfort is aiding and abetting the murderer spiritually.”

  One Year After DNC Speech | Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77

• “The early onset and prolonged state of American adolescence—beginning with a commercial culture designed for teeny boppers and continuing for a decade or more with college education now becoming a universal—robs children of childhood at one end, coddles them in a limbo between childhood and adulthood in the middle and sets them up for a rude shock at the exit end.”

  The Wall Street Journal: On the Wiring of Teen Brains and Their Programming

• “Corporations have bought Republicans, who now chant the corporate mantra that government coddles its citizens with the likes of mine and food safety rules.”

  The Huffington Post: Leo W. Gerard: In a Democracy, Freedom of Assembly Trumps "Free Enterprise"

• “Of course, that could just be the tepidly liberal spin on a deal that is shaping up to be the "NAFTA of the Pacific," as activists call it: a pact that coddles corporate interests like sweatshop manufacturers, pharmaceutical makers and agribusinesses seeking to eliminate any barriers to profit.”

  The Huffington Post: Michelle Chen: Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'?

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