Word: convert
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...have to take a look at the film, but I thought he played a very solid football game,” Murphy said. “The bottom line is, he competed like heck, and he obviously made a big run.”That said, the inability to convert on a third-and-three in the fourth quarter, a conversion that would have permitted Harvard to run out the clock, was a huge letdown on an otherwise successful day.“I think the bottom line is we had our chances to finish them off, and we didn?...
Things were simpler in 2000, back when Adebari arrived. A convert to Christianity, he fled Nigeria seeking asylum from religious persecution. He picked Ireland, he says, because of an inspirational Irish missionary he knew in Nigeria. Adebari, his wife and their two sons settled at the time in Portlaoise to get away from Dublin's hustle and bustle. Although Ireland eventually rejected their bid for asylum, by then Adebari had a third son, born in Ireland; at the time it was enough for the family to claim residency rights, which would no longer be the case today...
...Shoe bomber Richard Reid underwent a similar evolution and was selected for his failed mission in December 2001 on the assumption that his British citizenship and clandestine conversion to radical Islam would protect him from suspicion ahead of his attack. Jamaican-born convert Lindsey Germaine was similarly central to the July 2005 London attacks. Even German officials have had previous experience with radical converts: in 2003, France arrested Christian Ganczarski - a German national who has boasted his ties with top al-Qaeda leaders, and was implicated in the 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia - after Germany was forced...
BACTERIAL Scientists have used sugar-eating microbes from the ocean to convert food into electricity. In theory, a cup of sugar could power a 60-watt bulb for 17 hours...
...becoming the first bank to accept the Matricula Consular identification card that Mexican consulates in the U.S. began issuing after 9/11. A growing number of banks, including KeyBank and Union Bank of California, are also offering low-cost check cashing as a way to encourage people to convert to regular bank accounts. To reduce the risk of fraud, KeyBank also requires thumbprint...