Word: advent
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...hundred years after the advent of the French Revolution and the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a million Chinese marched in the streets of Beijing, demanding democracy and constructing their own Statue of Liberty. Despite the government's wanton massacre in the main roads surrounding Tiananman Square of 200,000 protesters on Saturday, and the threat of further crackdowns, hundreds of thousands returned to the streets this week in one of the most courageous defiances of government authority the world has seen in recent years, proving that, ultimately, force can not destroy a people's deep yearning to be free...
SINCE the advent of stream-of-consciousness, the mark of a good book has never been a plot. Writers, like politicians and preachers, have grown increasingly interested in style...
Flaubert won the case, and literary Paris awaited the advent of each of his successive books with anticipation, although they were not always well-received...
Before the advent of age-discrimination laws, 14 states passed legislation requiring older drivers to take tests to get their licenses renewed. In Pennsylvania, where the percentage of fatal accidents involving the elderly increased from 7% to 10% between 1985 and 1987, the Department of Transportation randomly selects as many as 1,500 senior citizens due for license renewal and calls them in for medical, vision, written and possible driving tests. As a result, 20% of the licenses are revoked, voluntarily surrendered or subjected to such restrictions as limiting the driver to daytime hours...
...Episcopal bishops are certain to follow the vote with their own endorsement of Harris, but the conflict is not likely to end with her installation, probably in February. The advent of women as bishops, for one thing, will delay any hoped-for reunion between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism -- by several hundred years, reckons one Anglican ecumenist.* More ! immediate is the serious split that will occur within the 60 million-member Anglican Communion. One side is ready to recognize Harris and subsequent women bishops and to accept the priests they ordain. The other side will refuse. Matters are bound...