Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really knows where the text of Kol Nidre originated, but throughout Jewish history, the legal loophole has been a useful one. The service for Kol Nidre was put to use in medieval Spain, for example, when recently Christianized Visigoths began "encouraging" Jews to convert to Catholicism--and threatening them with death if they declined the offer. Facing these appealing options, many Jews publicly converted while continuing to live secretly as Jews. Faced with the fact that so many of them had made false vows before God, Jews took advantage of the Kol Nidre formula, knowing that if they appeared...
However, Hoicka said he had heard the Ethiopian Restaurant would be allowed to join the new establishment if it agreed to convert into a "small sandwich shop...
...really want to convert their party, they need to remember the Clinton Rule: nothing convinces like success. Bill Clinton was able to get a predominantly-liberal Democratic Party behind him despite their distaste for many of his stances (welfare reform, NAFTA, the death penalty) by finally gaining his party entry to the White House after years of electoral embarrassments...
...convert a penalty corner? Sophomore Katie Schoolwerth rejected that claim with style, connecting with Collins' stop for the decisive tally...
...final proposal came from a neighborhood group seeking to convert the fire station into a community center...