Word: belongings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many, the message was ominous. After the leader's speech, in which he blamed the unrest on foreign countries as well as "enemies in various media, which mostly belong to the malicious and evil Zionists," I decided it was time to leave. Reporting Iran over the past week has been a dangerous enterprise for everyone, but I knew that as a dual-national on freelance assignment for TIME, I was a particularly soft target. Soon after, other journalists were expelled or detained, including a reporter for Newsweek...
...power and telecom transmissions are buried underground, which complicates much needed maintenance and upgrades. More communications also means eroded state control, which is a vital regime concern. There are currently only a little more than 1 million domestic phone lines - about 5 per 100 inhabitants - although just 10% belong to individuals or households. Unauthorized international calls abroad can lead to fines and arrest and in one case reportedly led to the public execution of a plant manager in October 2007, according to Good Friends, a Seoul-based aid organization. The same fears of the outside world will mean a very...
...ideal of celibacy existed, but as a teaching from the Apostle Paul, not a church doctrine. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul argued simply that single men had fewer distractions from their godly work: "He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided...
...When Greenberg left AIG in 2005, he took control of Starr and its AIG shares, which at the time totaled 300 million. Starr has since pocketed $4.3 billion from the sale of some of those shares. AIG says those profits belong to the insurance giant, along with the remaining 180 million shares of AIG that Starr still holds, which are worth just over $270 million...
...also came close to replicating their 1984 win in 2007, when the team made it as far as the National Championships. Twenty-five years later, Askew still marvels at what unlikely champions they were. “We were the upstarts from Harvard who really didn’t belong there,” Askew said. “It’s almost as if we stumbled into this thing. We didn’t quite realize how good we were until the final whistle blew and we were national champions.” —Staff writer...