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...told TIME that at the same checkpoint she saw another group of Asians in a car in front of them also being detained. Their luggage was set on fire by the side of the road, and the group was then hustled into another car and driven off.) Afraid to admit they were missionaries, the South Koreans insisted to their interrogators that they were just doctors and nurses. To prove their cover, another pastor even gave the head captor a healing massage, kneading the kidnapper's pressure points in the middle of the dusty Iraqi landscape. The group was finally released...
...Although relations between the Palanpuris and the Hasidim are cordial, Surat's diamond traders admit that India's sudden rise to prominence has caused some resentment in Israel and Belgium. One Israeli analyst frets that Surat's bustling workshops are flooding retail stores with diamonds, which could depress prices for years to come. ABN AMRO's Patnaik points out, however, that the market for diamonds could expand quickly as the burgeoning middle classes of China and India develop more of a taste for diamond jewelry. To make sure they secure a foothold in the Chinese market, some Surat businessmen have...
...understatement (“reverse,” “disavow” or “apologize for” would all have been more logical verbs for this one) called attention to the fact that she and the president still have yet to admit having failed in any way. This is all the more glaring (by juxtaposition, as it happens) given the recent sight of her former colleague Dick Clarke, apologizing explicitly for the government’s failure to prevent Sept. 11. Clarke’s ignored warnings to the administration about the possible...
Granted, most teaching fellows do lack the quick wit and dashing good looks of Alex Trebek. And, I must admit, Harvard has yet to fulfill my requests to hold my sections in a television studio, or distribute cash prizes to my students who write “A” papers (you see, the endowment would run out too quickly, since 47 percent of all students expect to receive A grades). But I simply cannot sit in silence when Freinberg claims that section participation is superfluous or that final exams are designed to prompt wholesale regurgitation of professors?...
Anyhow, I must admit I am fairly pleased that the sequel craze has been toned down for this summer, and though I’m hardly looking forward to any of the epics Hollywood is attempting to ram down our throats this summer, I think we can all agree on one thing: the all-powerful hotness of Keira Knightley in a leather bondage outfit, sporting Celtic tattoos and one big-ass sword. Bring it on, Keira...