Word: ascendant
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While students and professors will again be able to ascend the famous stairs to the ten story library, future projects will mean that some sections will temporarily be shut...
...belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” In order to turn America’s eyes skyward once again, and in honor of these courageous astronauts, NASA should rededicate itself to a goal worthy of the sacrifice they made—to ascend the heavens and touch the soil of another planet, bearing all the hopes and dreams of mankind...
...that is finally starting to win a place in power, a place in the national leadership," he says. Gil grew up with the inequities Lula has vowed to fight. "I am the son of a doctor and a teacher, a son of the lower middle class who managed to ascend to the middle class," he says. "I know the poor communities, where more than 70% don't have the fundamental basics for human dignity. They live in a subhumanity." A keen environmental and social activist - he often gives free shows in deprived areas - Gil got his first taste of politics...
...added that while some have expressed concerns that people without an interest in the Jewish community at Harvard could ascend to elected positions in Hillel because the group’s constitution has no religious faith requirements for its leaders, “I don’t think that’s a real concern. It doesn’t seem necessary to write that [religious faith requirement] into the constitution...
Murphy and Mills had extensively discussed Mills’ desire to ascend the coaching ladder and Murphy supported Mills’ ambitions...