Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Farage's call - echoing that of many Labour MPs in recent days - surely won't be the last; expect further dissent at a meeting this evening between Brown and Labour MPs. Despite the rumpus, though, there are reasons Brown - only two years into his premiership - could yet cling on. Rebel MPs have so far shown little sign of uniting around a single replacement for Brown. Even if they manage to, choosing a second successive unelected Prime Minister would make an immediate general election almost inevitable. - Adam Smith / London
...Chin considers whether he can craft a compromise with his fellow justices that would both uphold Prop 8 - and therefore the right of the people to amend the state constitution - and assert the right of gay people to be treated equally, he may find that the folks who cling hardest to marriage are gay couples. After all, what was the most sweeping part of the May 2008 decision Ming and his colleagues issued that granted gays the right to marry? It was the idea that the word marriage is so strong that denying it to gay couples violates the most...
...epithet “elitist” also came into currency only when Obama observed that Pennsylvanians are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” yet somehow Shipler declared that “‘elitist’ is another word for ‘arrogant,’ which is another word for ‘uppity’”—claiming, ergo, that any word synonymous with a synonym of a racial slur is a racial slur...
...DeLay by speech of • public does not share the obsession with bipartisanship of, and would really rather that campaign promises of be kept by, whether Republicans who created the current disasters like it or not • opponents of are so desperate that all they can do is cling, and cling, and cling, and cling, to crazed allegations of the non-American birth...
...Penn State’s dominating style of play would continue in the second game. The Lions got off to a roaring start and never looked back after building an 18-4 lead. Facing elimination in the third game, Harvard would not relent, and the club continued to cling to a 4-1 lead early on. Despite a valiant effort by the Crimson players, the Lions’ might was too much for Harvard to handle in the final game.“We had a really hard time receiving their serves, and when you do that against a team...