Racial profiling is the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether a person is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime or an illegal act or to behave in a "predictable" manner.
Couched their protests in diplomatic language.
couch = fo word in a certain manner; phrase:
Blogs for example, particularly the ones that deal with non-technological and non-scientific subjects, tend to be inaccurate, uninformed and parochial.
parochial = provincial; limited in perspective
For these reasons blogging represents retrogression in the standards of public discourse.
retrogression = the act or process of deteriorating or declining.
Ninety-two percent of the respondents to a Sina.com survey thought that the measure was daft.
daft = foolish; stupid.
Why should their human rights be so inconsequential and worthy of neglect?
inconsequential = lacking importance.
If we allow terrorists to disrupt our lives to that extent we're just playing into their hands.
play into one's hands = to do something that gives someone else an advantage over you, although this was not your intention.
On one hand, they wanted the Uygur mobsters to be "braver" and make "bigger" noises. On the other, they are again feigning innocence to swindle sympathy out of the uninformed overseas public.
feign = to give a false appearance of; to represent falsely; pretend to.
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