Word: bring
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...reveal much about a classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared text, they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
...Foundation sponsors activities designed to bring together cultural and ethnic groups, as well as bring speakers to campus...
...please everybody, and he is also an ostrich, in that he avoids confrontation at all costs. He will tell you what you want to hear to avoid confrontation. If he had just said to me [when I was at the Pentagon in 1996 and 1997], "I thought I could bring you back [to the White House], but I can't. I was wrong. Can we work out another way? I want to make you happy." Instead of stringing me along. It would have changed things...
...productive sense of accomplishment in doing so. We don't want to party. What we really want to do is study-study all the time, in all sorts of kinky positions, with our closest friends. Give Harvard a new student center and what will people do? They will bring their sourcebooks there...
...Angie" enjoys the status and the higher wages merited by her "tenure" as a cashier at the Greenhouse. And, after swiping millions of Chick-Fil-As through for ten years, Angie is indignant that soon a mere toddler of the cash-operating hierarchy could bring home equal wages...