Word: cowering
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...Germany (plus Belgium and Luxembourg) against most of the rest who refused to be drawn into the anti-American orbit organized by the two Continental powers. Now, the lineup is not identical, but similar. As France and Germany cracked their whip, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Spain refused to cower, voting against the suspension of the stability pact. Britain is keeping quiet, presumably enjoying a battle of sovereignties in which London, for once, is not being fingered as the foe of ever-closer union. The heart of the matter is power, interest and identity - today and in the Europe...
...more he sows, the more teams will cower when it comes time for him to reap...
...forces of nature have a way of asserting themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder that the earliest of our kind must once have...
...plans one might happen to have. What does that say about the character of the student body? Harvard students sometimes claim to be and are often thought of as America’s future leaders. In times of crisis, however, leaders are supposed to step to the front, not cower in the rear...
...would probably be an even bigger mistake to send the U.S. Marines into Kandahar. Having marines in their desert fatigues strolling victoriously through the dusty lanes of Kandahar, while residents cower from the doorways, might play well for the Bush Administration back home, but it would go against U.S. strategy to date: helping Afghans free themselves from the Taliban rule. This endgame may look like a stalemate, but the best tactic may be to keep putting pressure on the Taliban, maybe move the marines closer to Kandahar and keep up the accurate bombing on Taliban targets...