Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the help of Education for Action, a student organization which funds H-R undergraduates to do social change and cultural action projects, Ana has been able to continue her chosen work. In spite of limited resources the struggle for a unique classroom in San Domingo has succeeded...
Stendahl would not speculate on the possible choice of Paul's successor, who must be chosen by two-thirds of the 116 voting members of the College of Cardinals...
Thanks to the Bakke case, minorities and females will have their pride restored. Whenever we are chosen for a job promotion or college admission we will have the confidence of knowing it is for our ability and not to fill a quota...
...Declaration to be a spiritual covenant. Wills writes, even though it is precisely that function that it has served. At Gettysburg, Lincoln's "new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" romanticized the Declaration into a new myth of the chosen people. Actually, the delegates in Philadelphia did not see themselves as citizens of the New Jerusalem. They were mainly concerned with getting out the Declaration so that the colonies, independent, could urgently negotiate some foreign aid from France...
...mystery dissolves into silliness--save for one scene suffused with skillful tension in an abandoned factory housing both murder weapons, murderer and a body. Here, de Broca displays the full range of his directorial talents. It is at once scary, funny, and filled with a series of excellently chosen and effective shots and camera angles. Nonetheless, the elements of suspense fall by the wayside as Antoine and a series of dumb jokes combine to cinch the case...