Word: anoint
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...respected Karachi newspaper Dawn, people "just want a little improvement in their lives from the tyranny and callousness of Pakistani officialdom." Political opponents, including, of course, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, say the new Islamic bill is likely to increase that tyranny. One interpretation holds that this amendment will anoint Nawaz Sharif as a religious dictator, a supreme arbiter of what is considered good and evil under Islam. Nawaz Sharif, though, contends that only a strict adherence to Shari'a--which relies on the Koran and on the Sunna, a record of the Prophet Muhammad's deeds and sayings...
...unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried at Arlington are Blassie's. The two World Wars and Korea generated thousands of unknown candidates for the tomb. But by Vietnam, improved forensic science had precluded nearly all anonymous...
...could, we would then chide her with the example of Christ himself. When a woman anointed his hair with precious ointment from an alabaster box, she was lectured by his disciples for not spending the money on the poor instead. Jesus' famous rebuke to his followers: "Ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." And Mother would have nodded, recognizing our need to deliver the tributes, to shed the tears, to try to anoint her as a saint. But then she would point us to many of the people who had come...
Another cause of the executive committee's reluctance to anoint Franklin may have been his run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a self-policing organization his father helped found. In 1992 the council suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's compensation and use of the company plane. Word leaked to the National Enquirer, which purported to quote Billy saying Franklin was "going to destroy what I've worked for years to build." Franklin pulled out of the council, calling its members "crummy little evangelical busybodies" who were "jealous of me." Two years later...
...addition to selecting the gubernatorial and senatorial nominees, Cambridge voters will anoint candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, U.S. representatives, Governor's Council members, state legislators, district attorney, clerk of courts, register of deeds and county commissioners...